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Presidential candidate profiles:
Dallas Phillips
YEAR: Junior
MAJOR: Business administration, marketing concentration
HOMETOWN: Brunswick, Maine
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:
* President of Beta Theta Pi
PLATFORM BREAKDOWN:
The University of Maine Student Government is one of the least recognized organizations on campus. For an organization that gives hundreds of thousands of dollars to other student groups, this just isn’t acceptable. My primary goal, if elected, is to be accessible to the students. I want students to reach out to me with their problems and concerns. I want to stand for the students, and give them someone they can trust to solve a problem. I am not making campaign promises as candidates do every year. Rather then choosing for the student body what issues are import to them, I plan on seeking out their needs and issues. It’s time for the students to be heard on the issues that really matter to them. If elected, I will be that voice.
Kate O’Brien
YEAR: Fourth
MAJOR: Business, marketing concentration
HOMETOWN: Gray, Maine
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:
*Current Vice President of Student Government
*Alternative Spring Break
*Alpha Phi
*Presidents Council on Women
HONORS AND AWARDS:
*SOLD Emerging Student Leader 2003-2004
*Alpha Phi Sister of the Year 2002-2003
*Homecoming Queen Nominee 2004
PLATFORM BREAKDOWN:
I want to engage the students. All too often college students are labeled with being apathetic. I think this highly underestimates not only college students in general but particularity here at UMaine. Every student here has a voice, and they all deserve to be heard. I want to put the students back into student government. I am not necessarily coming in with my own agenda of goals that I want to accomplish, I am just one student out of many. But rather, I want to listen to the students and hear what they would like to see accomplished by student government.
Eli Young
YEAR: Fourth
MAJOR: Political Science
HOMETOWN: Gouldsboro, Maine
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:
*Resident assistant
*General Student Senate
*Multicultural ambassador
*Sigma Phi Epsilon
*Rock Against Rape coordinator
*Ben and Bill’s Chocolate Emporium manager
*Student Conduct Code Committee
*Programming Fund Committee
*Dining Services Review Board
PLATFORM BREAKDOWN:
After listening to students for four years as a student, three of those years as resident assistant and a term as a student senator, I have heard what it is that many students want and need. And so my platform is focused on two issues: the health and saftey of students, and ensuring that the students here at the University of Maine recieve the best education.
Vice presidential candidate profiles:
Patrick O’Shaughnessy
YEAR: Fourth
MAJOR: Business administration, international business and marketing concentration
HOMETOWN: Caribou, Maine
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:
*Campus Activities & Events computer technician
*LensCrafters Optician
*Delta Tau Delta
*Student senator
HONORS AND AWARDS:
*General Student Senate “Senator of the Month”
*MBNA Scholar
*HOBY alumni
*National Honors Society
PLATFORM BREAKDOWN:
As vice president, I will provide strong leadership for the senate. I will realign the brand image of Student Government, Inc. through a proactive lobbying approach to all students. It needs to be more visible, so it can be seen what Student Government is already doing for students and what it can do to do more. I am also working to have more equal representation in senate, so that all areas of campus are involved and engaged in what we do. I’d like to see more nontraditional and international students actively involved in senate. There are many who are in student organizations, but there needs to be a more diverse melting pot in senate to allow complete synergy to happen.
Chris Hill
YEAR: Fourth
MAJOR: Mechanical engineering with minors in mathematics and political science
HOMETOWN: Glenburn, Maine
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:
*General Student Senate, senator, president pro tempore, legislative relations chair.
*Continental Connection worker at the Bangor International Airport
*Co-op Student for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
*”Senator of the Month”
*Distinguished Scholar Scholarship recipient
*Maine Space Grant award
*NASA’s “On the Spot” Award for an engineering contribution toward a developing a flexible torque tool used on the International Space Station.
PLATFORM BREAKDOWN:
I have a simple platform motto: “What do the students want?” During my terms in senate, I learned that the best way to effectively create change is to have more than just one voice supporting a issue. I will make it a point to meet with every student club and group on campus and to listen to their comments and concerns. I will work tirelessly to make Student Government, Inc more accessible.
Brigham McNaughton
YEAR: Sophomore
MAJOR: Business administration
HOMETOWN: Springfield, Vt.
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:
*General Student Senate
*PLTL leader for Calculus.
*Sigma Phi Epsilon
*Resident assistantI
*Editor in chief of high school newspaper
*High school student council
*High school founder of Gay-Straight Alliance
HONORS AND AWARDS:
*”Senator of the Month”
*Eagle Scout
*Balanced Man Scholarhip from Sigma Phi Epsilon
PLATFORM BREAKDOWN:
I am working to help Student Government, Inc. become what it should be: a lobbying organization. Student Government should be hearing student concerns and bringing them to the administration along with possible solutions. We are looking to address the following: rolling back the number of 8 a.m. classes, a grievence process for poor quality teaching assistants, discounted tuition rates for lecture classes and a more practical cancellation policy for classes, especially for commuter students.
