ASUO Exec
At this time we do not have an endorsement for ASUO President. Personally, I voted for Andy Dolberg and Ben Hartley, but they don’t stand a chance of winning. Once the primary winners are announced we’ll give an endorsement for the general elections.

ASUO Programs Finance Senators
Seat 1, 1-year term: Erica Anderson*, Lisha Menne – On one hand, Anderson established herself as a conscientious PFC members during the OSPIRG hullabaloo: despite having previously worked with the Dirty PIRG, she opposed adding a new Campus Coordinator position to be used for roping more schools in. On the other hand, we’d love to be able to spend time researching Menne’s Facebook pictures. Ultimately, however, our pick is Anderson due to her proven ability to think independently — one of the rarest traits a student leader can have.
Seat 2, 2-year term: Micah Andrew Kosasa*, Erik J. Kaltenbacher – Kaltenbacher’s the clear choice on this one based solely on his voter’s guide statement which expressed a clear, fiscally conservative philosophy. Kosasa, meanwhile, uses his statement to talk about issues which are completely unrelated to the Programs Finance Committee.

EMU Board Finance Senators
Seat 4, 1-year term: Miles Rost, Byanna Mannis* – Rost is the obvious choice in this race. He has significant experience in dealing with budgets and should be fairly consistent and pragmatic on most fiscal issues. He will be a welcome addition to the Senate if elected, if only because he might not rubberstamp every special funding request that comes his way.
Seat 5, 2-year term: Jennifer Lleras* – Since she’s running unopposed, we recommend writing Zach Vishanoff in on this one. Ol’ Vish has quite a bit of experience skulking around the EMU, and the trademark camo and sombrero should keep the other Senators appropriately scared.

Athletic Department Finance Senators
Seat 7, 1-year term: Natalie Kinsey, Jerome T. Roberts, Cassandra Day*, Rachel Dallas – A hard one to choose. Ultimately, we like Cassie Day if only because she promises us that she reads the Commentator regularly.
Seat 8, 2-year term: Kyle McKenzie, Wannita Nualngam* – McKenzie’s pushed the rather silly Classy Fan Behavior campaign this last year, but he’s on the right side of many Senate issues. We don’t have much to go by as far as Nualngam is concerned, but her statement in the voter’s guide was unimpressive, to say the very least.
Seat 9, 2-year term (midterm): Drew Pinson, Andrew Tellio* – We don’t know either of these people and consequently don’t particularly care which is elected. We suggest writing in your favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle for this one.

Academic Senators
Seat 10, 2-year term: Ashley Sherrick – Sherrick used to be a lacrosse player, so we can only assume her election will lead to horrible, horrible, preppy things. We recommend writing in Pete Sorenson just so we can be sure he won’t take the gubernatorial race.
Seat 11, 2-year term: (midterm) Oscar Guerra* – Seat 11 is the undeclared seat, so in honor of indecision (and uncontested races) we recommend just leaving this one blank.
Seat 12, 2-year term: Jonathan A. Rosenberg* – Another uncontested seat and another slate candidate. If you’ve gotten this far through your ballot without kneeling over, we recommend putting in your own name for this one, just for the self-congratulations, dammit.
Seat 14, 2-year term: Nathan Gulley*, Joel Arellano – We don’t know who Nate Gulley is or what he stands for, but we do know that he looks like a monumental douchebag and enjoys unnecessarily capitalizing words. Vote Arellano.
Seat 16, 2-year term: Ryan Bourdo*, Athan Papailiou – Papailiou cheerily states in precise terms what he’d like to accomplish and mentions that he wishes to control the growth of the incidental fee. Bourdo, meanwhile, needs a haircut.
Seat 17, 2-year term (midterm): Wally Hicks, Jacqueline Justice – We like Hicks. He’s accessible to his constituents and is an intelligent and constructive voice in the Senate. Frankly, we’re surprised that he’s running again since he’d seemed to grow tired of the infighting and inanity of his fellow Senators. Justice may make a good Senator, but because she’s an unknown it’s impossible to recommend her over Hicks.

Associated Student President’s Advisory Committee, At-Large
1 two year term: Christopher Bourn, Shimeon Greenwood*, Manisha Marberry – If their statements in the Voter’s Guide are any indication, the two male candidates are milquetoast at best and babbling idiots at worst. Marberry, meanwhile, gave an impressive statement and is the current Miss Washington County. This is an easy choice.
1 two year term (midterm): Tiffany Schaffeld – Another unopposed candidacy. We recommend writing in Tom DeLay for this position- he needs the cash and will be ready to take one for the whole ASUO team should the need arise.

Student Recreation Center Advisory Board
1 two-year term (vote for three): Brock Kirby, Adam Ohlson, David Cao, Brent Allen Wehage – In this race you’re voting for who you don’t want to win. Since we don’t know any of the candidates, we’re just going to go against Adam Ohlson since he looks a bit like Jefferson from Married with Children. Sorry Adam, but your gigolo ways won’t be tolerated here.

ASUO Programs Finance Committee, At-Large
1 two-year term (midterm): Anna Groundwater, Annie Blomberg* – We don’t know anything about Blomberg except that she is part of the slate and apparently couldn’t be arsed to write a statement for the voter’s guide. Groundwater actually got around to writing a statement, but we were wholly unimpressed by her call for “more protest (sic) and rallies around campus.” How about writing in filmmaker Paul Haggis — not on account of his Academy-Award-winning race parable Crash, but for his under-appreciated work co-creating Walker, Texas Ranger.
1 two-year term: Matthew Rose – Sure, why not?

EMU Board, At-Large
1 two-year term (vote for two): Kerry R. Vance, Lillian Vaughn, Michael McGuffey* – All we ask is that you don’t vote for McGuffey.

Athletic Department Finance Committee, at large (ADFC)
1 year term: Troy David Kalus – Since Kalus is running unopposed, we recommend writing in what sort of campus sports you’d like to see added. Our choice? Rickshaw racing. As long there’s a lax steroids policy it should be fun to watch.

*Denotes member of Jared/Juliana slate.

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