By: Jade Rayner News Editor
The Associated Students of Western Oregon University are encouraging all students to have their voices heard.
As of Tuesday, May 9 the ASWOU elections for the 2017-2018 school year have extended the opportunity for students to vote until Friday, May 12 at noon.
Positions being ran for are ASWOU president and vice president, as well as senate president, judicial administrator, senator and Incidental Fee Committee member.
Being elected president of ASWOU comes with numerous responsibilities, one of which is “to represent the students of Western Oregon University to not only the WOU administration, but at a local/state/federal level as well. To properly address the representation at a statewide level, the ASWOU President sits on the Oregon Student Association’s (OSA) Board of Directors (BOD) along with other Oregon university and community college representatives,” according to the ASWOU General Election Form found on OrgSync.
Both Cynthia Olivares and Jessica Freeman are running for the role of ASWOU
President.
Those running for the second in command position of vice president of ASWOU are Evelyn Guzman and Felicia Dickinson.
Senate president, judicial administrator, senator and the incidental fee committee member positions are all running unopposed. Lila Jones, Logan Doerfler, Roger Deleon and Eric Frey are running for these positions.
ASWOU is asking all students that have yet to vote do so, saying “We still need your vote! We still need you to vote in the ASWOU Election!” in a Twitter post on May 9.
Students can vote by logging on to their OrgSync account, and clicking on the ASWOU elections icon on OrgSync’s homepage.
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