The Daily Cougar Voter’s Guide
March 12, 2008
The Student Government Association will have its election today and Thursday. Students can make their choices for student leader representatives at www.studentelection.uh.edu beginning 8 a.m. today and ending 8 p.m. Thursday.
Below is a complete list of candidates and responses from those who chose to release their information to the Cougar and then respond.
The questions were: 1. What is the biggest issue facing your constituents? 2. How do you intend to address and resolve that issue?
Note to candidates: If you have not responded and would like to, please send your answers to [email protected]. We will update this list throughout today and Thursday as we receive additional information. Please keep your responses to 2-3 words for Question 1 and 25 words for Question 2. We reserve the right to edit responses for spelling, grammar and length.
President
Samuel Dike
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| Top Issue:
| Tuition and fees
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| Solution:
| Cap tuition increases, build (UH) endowment, reallocate unused resources and increase financial aid support for students.
| Kelli Harper
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| Vice President
Jonas Chin
| Judah Johns
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| At-Large 1
Aamir Abdullah
| Brandon Brewton
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| Top Issue:
| Academic bill of rights
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| Solution:
| We can accomplish these goals by challenging the university administration to make this university as good as its promise.
| Natalie Tarnosky
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| At-Large 2
Aleah Al-Sad
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| At-Large 3
Jeremy Edwards
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| Top Issue:
| Campus housing
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| Solution:
| To work with the Residential Life and Housing committees to impose a plan to keep housing prices competitive with surrounding real estate area.
| Richard Petersen
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| At-Large 4
Tommy Kirby
| Ravi Khinda
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| Architecture
Jay Jacoby
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| Business seat 1
Salman Amanullah
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| Top Issue:
| Quality service, student satisfaction with administration
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| Solution:
| As an ongoing process, I want to work with the students and the administration to bridge the gap and resolve these quality issues.
| Mark Carswell
| Tatiana Ruiz-Cornejo
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| Top Issue:
| School spirit
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| Solution:
| Hold meetings with (UH) administration and have students address concerns and let students discuss ways to increase UH spirit on campus.
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| Business seat 2
Stephen Quezada
| Efiori Umana
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| Business seat 3
Jeffrey Li
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| Top Issue:
| Political voice
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| Solution:
| Get more people involved by starting a new campus political party.
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| Business seat 4
Jonathan Garza
| Mustafa Kodwavi
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| Business seat 5
Jared Lopez
| Mariam Zakaria
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| CLASS seat 1
Alexander Obregon
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| Top Issue:
| Administration has lost touch with students
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| Solution:
| What better way to address students’iacute; need than to speak directly with the student body and be a voice for it? I will be a liaison between the students and administration.
| John Phillips
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| CLASS seat 2
Rachel Coolidge
| Michael S. Godek
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| Top Issue:
| Making students’ voices heard
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| Solution:
| "College Councils," more town hall-type meetings, get students on more advisory committees
| Roland Henshaw
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| CLASS seat 3
Kelly Evans
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| Top Issue:
| CLASS student representation
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| Solution:
| Form a CLASS council, that way each field has a representative. Second, I have set up a permanent e-mail (kmevansclass3@gmail.com) so students and faculty can express their concerns.
| David Gonzalez
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| Top Issue:
| Senator accountability
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| Solution:
| It is imperative that as senator, I am proactive by listening to student concerns and ensuring that their issues are taken to higher powers to get resolved.
| Abdul Khan
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| Top Issue:
| Community involvement
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| Solution:
| To improve the standard of living in the Third Ward community of which we are a part.
| Ricardo Montenegro
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| Top Issue:
| Adding courses
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| Solution:
| Students should have more of an ability to choose from a wider range of available classes and incorporate such a change without raising tuition.
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| CLASS seat 4
Bethany Johns
| Jenny Stanley
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| Top Issue:
| Communication
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| Solution:
| I believe students need to be a part of the of the transformation of this University into a (flagship) school and SGA is a great opportunity for students to have (a) say.
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| CLASS seat 5
Amod Ahmad
| Sean Tarver
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| CLASS seat 6
Mallory McKenney
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| Top Issue:
| Mandatory meal plans
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| Solution:
| I want to negotiate with Aramark and name our standards, prices and options.
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| CLASS seat 7
Stephen Klesel
| Rajji Kaur
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| Education seat 1
Quione Cooke
| Jackie Stout
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| Top Issue:
| Lack of student camaraderie/interaction
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| Solution:
| Creating organizations that will give students the opportunity to interact with each other and network. I also hope to create surveys that will obtain the opinion of the student body.
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| Engineering seat 1
Nizar Aouni
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| Top Issue:
| Tuition and fees
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| Solution:
| My big concerns are a rigorous implementation of the four pillars of engineering, affordable tuition and fees as well as new and cheap parking lots.
| Haripriya Sundararaju
| Frank Thomas
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| Engineering seat 2
Lyle Hood
| Ibrahima Komara
| Bianca Ramirez
| Osaid Shamsi
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| Graduate At-Large 1
Van Nhan Hua
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| Graduate At-Large 2
Manikantesh Bonatham
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| Top Issue:
| Student communication
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| Solution:
| I will solve (major) problems by improving the communication between the students and the SGA senators.
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| Honors
Benjamin Johns
| Zuhair Siddiqi
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| HRM
Oana Borcoman
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| Top Issue:
| Student services
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| Solution:
| By implementing surveys, holding employees accountable and by streamlining the admissions process, making the student experience pleasant and welcoming from the beginning.
| Francesca McCaughan
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| Law
Norman Nelson
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