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 ([email protected]) 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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