Your presidential candidates Arrechea and Avitia, don´t forget to rock your vote on April 28 and 29th.

ELECTION: Don't forget to VOTE

By: Brandon Goucher

Posted: 4/23/04

On April 28 and 29, Wednesday and Thursday, students will vote in an Associated Student Body Government election. One of the positions on the ballot is the ASBG president. Max Arrechea and Carmen Avitia are hoping to win the position.

Arrechea, 23, is running for ASBG because he wants to make a big impression on students. "I want to make them feel good about being here at Delta, have fun here at Delta, and enjoy being a student," he said, "I want to try and bring celebrities on campus (like UOP does) and have them speak to the students and give them a nice message and give them good goals."

When asked what experience he has to qualify for the ASBG, he said, "I am president of the International Club here at Delta, and we have been working together with the student body government to create activities for the international students and we have gone on trips with the students to San Francisco.

"I feel that I am the best candidate for president because my major is communications and it goes more with people and I plan to get into politics later on.." Max is involved with community service and is a tutor for the high school program at Delta, as well as being involved with various clubs on campus.

Arrechea has been going around campus talking to students, and is also

conducting surveys of the students to see how they feel about Delta and what their

concerns are. When asked why he thinks he is a better qualified candidate than his

opponent, Carmen Avitia, he said,"I believe that I am a better candidate because my

major is communications and I am more concerned about students and people in

general. My experience with different jobs and community services on campus have

been giving me the skills to get to know people and help them. I think that I am best for this job and what I promise, I will do. I don't think Carmen Avitia will do the job right," Max said.

Carmen Avitia, 18, is the senator of activities, which conducts all of the associated student body activities at Delta. She has been in charge of anything that happens with the student body government activities for six months. Like Arrechea, Avitia's major is communications.

When asked what she would do if elected president, Avitia said, "I want to

keep traditions; Associated Student Body President is built on foundations. Everything

that the past presidents have built on keeps growing, and I want to keep traditions aliveand get more students involved with activities we hold on campus." Avitia is involved with the Fashion Club, as well as various other clubs on campus.

"We have to work together as a team to get things done, and I have learned that by working with the current Associated Student president," she said.

When asked about Arrechea, Carmen said, "I am not here to beat Max; I am

here to run for myself and am not up against Max." Arrechea and Avitia know each othervery well, and have previously worked together on student activity projects. "I am notsaying I will be a better president; I am gonna be the best president I can be," Avitia said.

Avitia has been in involved with student body activities since elementary school. In 7th grade she served as treasurer; in 8th grade she was vice president, and in high school she became president of the ASP at East Union High School in Manteca. As with Arrechea, she also goes to sporting events on campus and talks to people. She enjoys hearing from students. Avitia went to a rally held last month in Sacramento to protest California's budget cuts.

"I am very excited about this election and I want it," Avitia said.

Arrechea or Avitia will take office on June 1. Voting will take place on April 28 or 29.