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April 12, 2004,
Vol. 74, No. 12S
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| HITTING
THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: The engineering students running for ASUC elections
staged a campaign kickoff last Sunday to hear about the campaign
issues of their constituents. |
Engineering
students host first-ever joint campaign kickoff for ASUC elections
Berkeley engineers
could give Bush and Kerry some campaign tips. This year’s five
ASUC engineering candidates eschewed the typical competitive tensions
that characterize most political campaigns.
In an effort to
get engineers out to the polls, engineering physics junior Misha Leybovich,
engineering undeclared sophomore Chris Abad, ME/MSE sophomore Grace
Hsu, ME/MSE freshman Peter Chung, and ME freshman Igor Tregub have decided
to campaign together and put engineering concerns above their own personal
electoral ambitions.
“This is the first time there is really unity among engineering
candidates. I have heard that there has been bitter infighting among
candidates in the past. This year we’re all supporting each other.
We go to meetings together, we leave together, and we find out what
engineers want together,” says Tregub.
Last Sunday the
candidates held the first joint engineering campaign kickoff, an effort
to expound on issues and get feedback from constituents.
The feedback given
by constituents is taken seriously. If candidates can’t include
these concerns in current campaigns, the ideas will be saved for use
by next year’s candidates.
The issue shared
by all candidates is getting politically apathetic engineers to the
polls. Instead of the usual couple hundred engineering votes, they want
to see thousands of votes this year. That kind of turnout would be enough
to elect all of the candidates to ASUC.
Vote from April
13 to 15 at the Etcheverry-Soda breezeway, east side of Evans Hall,
or the Foothill dining hall during dinner.
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