Harrison & Surles
Nick Harrison, law and business graduate student, and John Surles, multidisciplinary studies junior, are running for UOSA president and vice president, respectively.
Harrison has served as chair of the student senates at the University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma City University. At the age of 21, he ran for Oklahoma state representative. He’s a combat veteran who served in Afghanistan from March 2006 to June 2007.
He has served as UOSA election chair, Human Diversity Committee chair in the Graduate Student Senate and as vice chair of the Student Advisory Board to the Oklahoma State Regents, and is president of the Student Veterans Association.
“Looking at student government, we saw an organization with not much participation,” Harrison said.
Harrison would like to make student government more relevant to students.
Harrison said his most important issue was the creation of a University Community Council that would include graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the Norman community.
He said the group would serve an advisory role but would gradually gain power and authority because “no one is going to say that all of the stakeholders of the university are wrong. The government doesn’t just belong to the president, it belongs to all the university stakeholders.”
Web site: www.shared-governance.com
Zentano & Lloyd
Franz Zentano, international area studies and French senior, and Cory Lloyd, advertising junior, are running for UOSA president and vice president, respectively.
Zentano is the current chief of staff of the UOSA executive branch. He served as coordinator of Student Organizations for two years.
Lloyd served on CAC and is the outgoing University Sing chair. He also works for the Student Advertising Department.
Zentano said his goals as president would be to build on the green initiative, improve parking and increase communication between the branches of government, students and student government.
“Students face many different issues that we [in student government] don’t necessarily know,” Zentano said. “We need to reach every student so that they feel involved.”
He said he has the “experience and passion to make connections with the entire student body.”
Zentano said he would fight to keep tuition and fees down in the current economic recession.
Lloyd said improving relations between OU and the Norman community was an important issue.
“We live here for four years while we’re in school, and we use everything in Norman,” Lloyd said. “It’s in our best interest to have an open two-way communication.”
Eddy & Kumar
Editor's Note: The Web site for Jess Eddy and Jay Kumar is still under construction
Jess Eddy, religious studies and political science sophomore, and Jay Kumar, University College freshman, are running for UOSA president and vice president, respectively.
Eddy served on the CAC executive branch, spent two semesters as an associate member of UOSA Undergraduate Student Congress and is currently a UOSA advocate to the University Budget Council, an executive branch position.
Kumar is a member of the UOSA and has attended the President’s Leadership Class.
Eddy described himself as the reform candidate.
“I see a need in UOSA for the traditional ideas of democracy in a meeting,” Eddy said.
He said elected officials are public servants meant to act on behalf of their constituents.
“If elected, we will not pursue our personal interest, we will act entirely on behalf of students,” Eddy said.
He said the most important issue in the election was participation.
“When students don’t get involved and don’t voice their opinion, then the government does not act on behalf of students,” Eddy said.
Other important issues are budget transparency, raising the quality of an OU degree and expanding the university dialogue, Eddy said.
Web site: http://eddyandkumar2010.webs.com/
Glavas & McCullock
Ally Glavas, political science sophomore, and Zac McCullock, international business and entrepreneurship sophomore, are running for UOSA president and vice president, respectively.
Glavas served as coordinator for the Department of the Interior. This year, she was the CAC director and chaired the UOSA tailgate and coffee with UOSA. She’s also served as treasurer of OU Young Democrats.
McCullock served as an executive branch officer for the Department of Off Campus Transportation and Living. He served as Department of the Exterior director. He’s also been active in his fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Glavas and McCullock would like to make student government relevant to students.
Glavas and McCullock are focusing their campaign on four main issues: advising, transportaion, dead week and oZONE.
“If you get advised improperly, you can spend thousands of dollars and lots of wasted time that could be avoided,” Glavas said.
The pair would like to improve the CART system and raise awareness about CART services.
They said many students aren’t aware of free parking at the Lloyd Noble Center.
Glavas and McCullock would like to create a student-led forum to work with IT to fix problems with oZONE.
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katieou 2 years, 2 months ago
Harrison.
sooner12 2 years, 2 months ago
So yeah, Eddy and Kumar's site is full of ads and no Eddy or Kumar in sight.
sbass 2 years, 1 month ago
Ally and Zac are by far the most qualified candidates and have realistic solutions to problems that affect me.