THE SKYLINE VIEW The Voice of Skyline College, San Bruno, Calif.
April 27, 2022
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Issue 3
ASSC elects new student leadership for 2022-2023 12 officials were elected to office by students via an online survey By Steven Rissotto Editor-in-chief
Skyline College has decided on its new student leadership for the school year 2022-2023. 12 student officers were elected on Friday, April 22 during the annual Associated Students of Skyline College (ASSC) General Election, which lasted parts of two days. Win Shwe Yee defeated Kenneth Tam, becoming the next student-body president, a role that is regarded as the highest-ranked for students in the ASSC Governing Council. Yee will be required to provide leadership to the council and represent the student body at large while also assisting in establishing a meaningful and intentional campus community where different voices can be heard. “I think the school is slowly transitioning to more in-person events. I would like to make in-person events more fun, informational events and celebrate all cultures because it’s a community college,” Yee said. The intrigue for the position was natural for Yee, a former senator for ASSC and leader of numerous youth organizations, which focus on learning about current events happening all over the world. She hopes to focus on the different connections Skyline has to the global community. “We have students from different countries and despite the race, gender, sex or the color of any of the students — I want to do events to celebrate their cultures,” Yee said. “I just want the community to feel closer and as
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Win Shwe Yee (left) was elected president, Jonathan Scott (center) was elected vice president and Anthony Tran (right) was chosen as the student trustee nominee for Skyline
if every student belongs to this community.” Yee’s running mate — Jonathan Scott — was also victorious, beating out Hnin Thandar Win to become the next vice president. Scott — the former vice president of the student body at Oceana High School — was previously a senator for the 2021-2022 school year. “I want to hold the clubwide events that can get clubs interacting with each other because we’ve had a lack of interaction over these last years, and I want to really bring that back,” Scott said. “That’s what our ASSC really wanted. At times right now, it’s still really difficult to get full-on events going and I believe that in the fall semester we’ll be in for a much more drastic change back to normalcy.” According to the qualifications, the vice presidency is a position that requires an active
and committed dedication to supporting the students and the campus community. Scott will also serve as Chairperson of the Election Board. Scott’s main focus is building back up the clubs on campus, noticing that much of the contact information on the school’s website is outdated and incorrect. He also noticed the lack of meetings between them is holding back from a wider population participating. “I know the position deals a lot with clubs,” Scott said. “I really want to help clubs be a little more known around campus because I know when I started Skyline I genuinely couldn’t even tell there were any clubs even running. And the few that were would only be at college hour events and I could never attend those. It really felt like there weren’t many clubs and the website isn’t up to date.” Eureka Soriano was voted as
the Commissioner of Activities, beating out Chantal San Felipe. Soriano’s role will include preparing a calendar of activities and events, coordinating all activities sponsored by the ASSC, designing and working to propose budgets for events and more. Thiri Wai Wai clinched the vote to become the next Commissioner of Finance and Win Thiri was voted as the new Commissioner of Publicity. Sarah Ruiz beat out Grace Xu for Commissioner of Public Records. For the vacancy with the ASSC senators, the six individuals that ran for the position were all voted into the role. Iliana Crisostomo, Kesha Cromartie, Lorenzo Madrigal, Winmar Oo, Alysia Tanimura and Chuyun Wang have all been accepted for the spots. Skyline’s current president, Anthony Tran, clinched Sky-
line’s nomination to become the next student trustee. After running unopposed, Tran will seek election for the position against the nominees representing the College of San Mateo and Cañada College. “I think this is just a natural step up for me,” Tran said. “You know, with all the experience under my belt, I think I’ve really become good as president because it’s kind of connecting to the source and really being able to give a lot of people an outlet to share their ideas with the administration.” The election balloting took place online from April 19 to April 21 with each personalized ballot arriving in the school inbox of every registered Skyline student. The polls closed on April 21 at 6 p.m. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 protocol, the elections were held exclusively online.
Skyline reflects on the works of student government, hopeful for changes next year The student election balloting is happened April 19 to April 21 By Christian Carlo Ceguerra Copy editor
As Skyline students casted votes on their online ballots for the next school year’s associated students, students reviewed the current student government’s work, their efforts with the transition to in-person learning and their attempts to revitalize student life. Political science major and current student senator Iliana Crisostomo is happy with the student events they host that rebuild the sense of community on the campus. “I think they’re doing pretty good considering that this is the first semester back,” said Crisostomo, who is in her second semester at Skyline. “So I understand if there’s not a lot of like student involvement because this is like the first semester back and like, I guess the students that were here before the pandemic are gone already.” Aryanna Mendoza, a first-year
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Skyline’s ASSC is preparing for the results of the annual student elections on April 22.
engineering student, likes the weekly College Hour because it allows her to be familiar with the existing student clubs and services around the campus. “I definitely enjoyed the college hours. It’s very fun to see the organizations they have here,” Mendoza said. “If there
was no College Hour, I wouldn’t have known any of these organizations.” Allied health science student Eliana Abude said that this year’s student government is doing “pretty well” with the events they hold at the quadrangle. “I love the therapy dogs, that was amazing,” Abude said, refer-
ring to the Midterm Support series they provided in the last month. “I love that they gave out free goodie bags and had, you know, stress-relieving activities for us so we can have a break from our school stuff.” A campus-wide email was sent on the morning of Tuesday, April 19 to inform
students that the Associated Students of Skyline College (ASSC) elections for the school year 2022-2023 were opened. The email comes with a personalized link they can access to vote. But despite the fliers posted on the walls, the campaign and promotion of candidates on social media and the campus-wide email, not everyone is aware that a student election is taking place. Middle college students also have a say in the election period. For political science student Eshal Naeem, she’s looking for student leaders that are “motivated and have intentions of bettering the campus. Similarly, mechanical engineering student Jhelan Lopez seeks someone who could advocate for the student’s voice. For Crisostomo, she hopes that the future ASSC would have more presence as a student government and student support. “I think a lot of students didn’t know ASSC unless they went out to look for it,” Crisostomo said.