ASPC Elections at Pomona Next Week

ASPC elections will be held next Tuesday on the ASPC website. Tomorrow we'll be publishing short statements from all of the candidates around campus (click the image above); those people are contending for the following positions: President, Vice President of Finance, Vice President of Campus Activities, Commissioner of Communications, Commissioner of Community Relations, Environmental Affairs Commissioner, Sports and Clubs Commissioner, Commissioner of Academic Affairs, Senior Class President, and Junior Class President.

We've received a few updates after press time. The first is from an additional candidate for President, Alvin Sangsuwangul:

How much does a polar bear weigh? Enough to break the ice. Hi my name’s Alvin, and I’m running for ASPC President.

I’ll tell you about myself and what I stand for. Give the 150 word limit, It’s fortunate that for me these two areas overlap.

I have been shaped by my involvements from serving as the 2010 First Year Class President to working this semester as a leader within the Student Diversity Coalition. After five months in Thailand working with rural villagers on issues of social/environmental justice and human rights, I returned with a lot of energy and ideas about how to serve communities back home and make a positive impact.

As ASPC President I intend to test the limits of what senate can accomplish when working, not as individual senators, but as a collective, toward a vision of a better Pomona in which all community members feel supported.

Joanna Ladd, a candidate for Environmental Affairs Commissioner, also sent an updated candidate statement:

Dear Pomona Community,

For the past three years, I have proven my commitment to sustainability at Pomona as co-president of Campus Climate Challenge, a delegate to Powershift 2007, and a student member of the President’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability. Regardless of whether I’m elected Environmental Affairs Commissioner, this is what I hope to be doing next year:

— Making environmental justice a priority on the President’s Advisory Committee and in the college’s Sustainability Plan

— Helping Sustainability Coordinator Bowen Patterson restructure the environmental organizations on campus to get more students involved in substantive projects (read: not just fliering and digestering)

— Working with Maria Tucker and student coordinators in the Office of Community Programs to bring speakers to campus and start the dialogue about race and environmentalism at Pomona

Vote for me to change the way students shape sustainability at Pomona. Questions? Don’t know what environmental justice is? Contact me at joanna.ladd@pomona.edu.

And no, we're not making endorsements. At least we aren't at this point.