January 17, 2006
NEWSNew semester, new promises
With one semester under his belt and one more to go Jeffrey Linford, president of ASMCC (Associated Students of Mesa Community College) feels he has accomplished the majority of his campaign promises and is setting new goals for the spring semester.
“We have a nine point platform that we are focusing on accomplishing for the 2006 academic year,” Linford said.
This platform includes goals such as establishing an electric marquee at the Red Mountain location as well as the Southern and Dobson location, updating the ASMCC webpage, creating a new student survey to find out about students wants and needs, sponsor department luncheons, create student voice forums at both college locations, rewriting some of the bylaws to reform the new structure of ASMCC, and possibly changing around some of the busing systems from MCC to ASU while considering adding one that would transport students to Red Mountain.
“The main thing we are doing is researching the need. Red Mountain students would like to have more access with the main campus,” Linford said regarding the possibility of a bus route to Red Mountain.
There are also discussions as to whether or not Red Mountain should develop its own student government.
“One of our major objectives is to find out if we could, should, and would propose that Red Mountain have a separate student government for the future years to come. We feel that Red Mountain has a large enough student body to consider the transition of having its own student government,” Linford said.
Linford paid particular attention to Red Mountain in the previous semester in attempts to create more activities and get more students involved.
“In years past, the challenge has been to make sure that Red Mountain students were included and had the same attention that the Dobson students received,” Linford said, “We have had successful activities at Red Mountain this last semester and are pleased at the participation we have seen in the service activities such as the fall bash, super leaders, and a desert clean up day where we collected several thousand pounds of trash,” Linford added.
According to Linford, activities such as movie nights, pizza parties, and service activities have been made available to Red Mountain students.
In the fall semester, Linford said he wanted to raise money out of his own pocket to give as scholarship funds to a single mother attending MCC.
While the amount is not what was expected, Linford raised $100 and will be awarding the money to an applicant in the spring semester.
“I was unaware about single mother scholarships that were being offered at MCC. As I did my own research, I discovered that there were single mother scholarships that were being offered for much more than $100,” Linford said.
As Linford looked into MCC’s future, he took a moment to reflect on the past semester.
“I love the people that I have gotten to work with,” said Linford, “I can’t even describe it to you.”
When Linford was elected last spring, a vice president was not elected along with him.
Later, Justin Rouzaud applied and was unanimously voted into the role as vice president.
“We wouldn’t normally associate,” Linford said, refering to their differences.
According to Linford, he considers Rouzaud to now be his best friend despite their differences.
Linford considers himself to be more conservative and displays that by always dressing in a tie and dress pants everyday at school, while Rouzaud can usually be found right next to Linford in casual gym shorts and a shirt.
Linford has accomplished most of his goals from the previous semester, but has laid out many more challenges for the spring semester.
Volume 43, Issue 8. Today is
Jeffrey Lindford
ASMCC President