ASO, trustee ballots open Student government to get four new members

SCOTT PREWITT

News Editor @s_prewitt

Ballots close Thursday in Pierce College’s student government election, to determine which candidates will take over key positions in the Associated Student Organization’s leadership.

Eight candidates have run campaigns this month in races for four executive positions in Pierce’s student senate. All of Pierce’s roughly 22,000 students will be able to vote online for the ASO’s president, vice president, treasurer and club council president.

“I think the role of student government and committees have become blended in a way where it’s not really working,” said Albert Thakur, engineering major and one of three candidates running for ASO president. “Number one, the students don’t know what’s going on. We have all these committees, and nobody knows.”

Thakur joined the Navy when he was 17 years old, where he was a nuclear reactor operator. He was an E3 rank when he left the service, is currently both an actor and part-owner of an oil and gas company based in Pennsylvania, and said he would like to be the first U.S. senator of Indian descent. He is a writein candidate in the election, and his name will not appear in online ballots.

“What I want to do is create an openness and rapport that we don’t currently have,” Thakur said. [See ASO, pg. 3]

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