Voting Times:
Gorham: March 15 & 16, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Bailey Hall and 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Brooks Student Center.
Portland: March 17 & 18 in Luther Bonney Hall, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Name: Ezekiel W. Kimball
Major: History/Classical Studies
Constituency: Commuter
Class: Senior
Important Issues: Cost of living in Cumberland County, cost of tuition, lack of community on campus
Goals: To create student government apparatus to help students learn academically and professionally, to strengthen the student senate’s lobbying efforts on and off campus
Activities: Two years in Student Senate, with seats on the Executive Committee and the Leadership Development Board; served as an At-Large Senator
Name: Jeremy J. Collette
Major: History
Constituency: At-Large
Class: Junior
Important Issues: Possible tuition increases, jobs for graduates
Goals: To improve student experience through new student centers, to reform student government to make it more accessible to students
Activities: History Student Associations, served as Secretary of the Board of Student Organizations and as Chair of the Student Senate
Name: Denize Sevgim Egilmez
Major: Psychology
Constituency: At-Large
Class: Junior
Important Issues: Creating university spirit and community, encouraging diversity, increasing class offerings
Goals: To work on issues above, to revive and functionalize the Student Affairs Committee in the Student Senate
Activities: Served as Chair of Student Affairs Committee, served as Secretary and Vice-President of the Multicultural Student Association, founder and President of the Muslim Student Association
Name: Joshua David Chaisson
Major: Economics
Constituency: At-Large
Class: Freshman
Important Issues: Lack of student involvement; professor qualifications, capability and effectiveness; inability of student centers to hold large events, multiple meetings and student interest
Goals: To enhance communication lines between students and campus administration; to flourish a greater interest in student activities, to assist in planning campus expansion
Activities: Southern Maine Outing Club officer, member of the USM communications board
Name: Sarah Ferrizer
Major: Environmental Science and Policy, minors: Biology, Russian
Constituency: At-Large
Class: Senior
Important Issues: Transportation issues, lack of funding for school programs and faculty, Maine’s budget, the Free Press L
Goals: To be head of a committee on sustainability, to work more with fellow students, to make USM a better place
Activities: Senior involved in high academic standing, interns at the Greater Portland Council
Name: Amanda L. Smith
Major: Geography/Anthropology
Constituency: At-large
Class: Senior
Important Issues: Academic advising, increasing costs (all around), accessibility of the Student Senate and its entities
Goals: To create better presence on campus for the Student Senate through activities, to create an orientation for Seniors and other student leaders, to educate students about what resources are available
Activities: Appointments chair, Public Relations Committee Chair, Executive committee chair, Student Affairs Committee member, Vice-Chair of Student Senate, Geography-Anthropology Student Association President, Vice-President and Treasurer of Honors Student Organization
Name: Jonathan Read
Major: Accounting/Economics
Constituency: Commuter
Class: Junior
Important Issues: Higher education budget cuts, lack of school spirit and pride in being USM students
Goals: To enhance voter turnout, to increase the number of candidates running, to get the Senate more involved in the government and community, to increase the impact and awareness of the USM Student Senate
Activities: Member of Student Senate, member of Finance Committee, member of Constitutional Review Committee
Name: Gabriel A. Markley
Major: Computer Science/Economics
Constituency: Commuter
Class: Sophomore
Important Issues: Advising, funding, enrollment growth/overpopulation
Goals: To increase student involvement
Activities: Wayside Soup Kitchen, Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital, Phi Kappa Sigma
Name: Keith Wayne Foster
Major: English
Constituency: Resident
Class: Sophomore
Important Issues: Campus community, condition of campus (dorms, buildings, libraries, etc.), student awareness/involvement in academia and USM’s future.
Goals: To assist in establishing a greater awareness of happenings in USM Senate as it relates to everyday student life.
Activities: Russell Scholar, works in Gorham Dean of Student Life office, recent senator.
Name: Caroline Young
Major: Psychology/Linguistics, minor: Women’s Studies.
Constituency: Resident
Class: Senior
Important Issues: Aramark food’s lack of nutrition, earlier opportunities for student participation in student life, terrible value of Aramark meal plan
Goals: To bring the concerns of students to the Senate and to institute change
Activities: Volunteer for the Maine Center on Deafness; Co-founder, secretary, BSO representative of University Student Activists; member of Student Conduct Committee; Treasurer, Secretary, Vice-President of MT Players
Name: Lyana Wannemacher
Major: Business, minors: Political Science, Economics
Constituency: Commuter
Class: Junior
Important Issues: Parking, housing, class flexibility and availability for working and commuter students
Goals: To improve advising, to beautify campus with trees and flowers, to have wireless communication on campus, to build new Student Center.
Activities: American Sign Language Church interpreter, volunteer firefight and EMT
Name: Andrew Ian Bossie
Major: Political Science, minors: Theater, Business
Constituency: Resident
Class: Sophomore
Important Issues: affordable schooling, high quality learning environment, strong sense of community, more advanced student-university relations
Goals: To improve student-university relations, to improve residential life, to build a stronger sense of community, to focus on a direction of change that ranks students first
Activities: member of Public Relations Committee; theater performance, including Cabaret at USM and Grease at Portland Players
Name: Michael T. Barden, Sr.
Major: Nursing/Psychology, minor: Criminology
Constituency: Commuter
Class: Junior
Important Issues: Gen. Ed. Program vs. Core, student involvement, integration of campuses
Goals: To try to get student more involved, to raise community awareness of USM’s value
Activities: Senate, SNO, the Free Press
Name: Mathew Connolly Butler
Major: Business Administration, minor: Political Science
Constituency: Commuter
Class: Junior
Important Issues: Tuition, student/university relations, university relations
Goals: To attend required meetings and more, to participate with an open mind and an honest perspective, to meet and befriend other students and faculty
Activities: Member of USM lacrosse team
Name: Jonathan Paul Gagnon
Major: Business Administration
Constituency: Commuter
Class: Junior
Important Issues: Allocation of funds, school unity, student organization
Goals: To help USM student body become better represented on the Student Senate
Activities: Helps at Portland Soup Kitchen
Name: Adam Mirmelli
Major: Accounting
Constituency: At-Large
Class: Not available
Important Issues: Campus safety, parking on Gorham campus, RA harassment
Goals: To improve campus life, to better advertise activities
Activities: Philanthropy, such as throwing dances and giving blood; intramurals
Name: Daniel Johnson
Major: Biology
Constituency: At-Large
Class: Sophomore
Important Issues: How budget cuts will affect student academics, how student activity fee funds are spent, increasing student involvement on campus
Goals: To let others know what the Senate is doing and how that will affect their lives, to be part of positive changes at USM
Activities: worked with volunteer organizations rebuilding churches
Name: James McKean
Major: Political Science
Constituency: Resident
Class: Sophomore
Important Issues: Advising services, Aramark/vender alternatives, student involvement
Goals: To represent students to the best of his ability, to address pressing issues
Activities: A Chair of the Public Relations Committee, member of USM tennis team, conferences on Student Government Association
Name: Joe Frechette
Major: Media Studies, minor: Business
Constituency: At-Large
Class: Senior
Important Issues: Apathy, not enough academic enrichment outside of classroom
Goals: To kick it, rock it, and take to the level; to increase community at USM, to make student life a warmer experience
Activities: PEB, WMPG, SCB, Honors Program, SAF
Name: John Marshall
Major: Media Studies
Constituency: At-Large
Class: Senior
Important Issues: Budget cuts, lack of community, confusion with registration
Goals: To build community with student and surrounding community
Activities: Treasurer of Senate, an events coordinator on PEB, Advertising Manager at Free Press
Name: Asher Daniel Platts
Major: Music
Constituency: Resident
Class: Junior
Important Issues: Lack of student activity, building community on Gorham campus
Goals: To make the Student Senate accessible to students, to increase awareness of Senate elections
Activities: an RA, member of ResLife’s Sustainability Committee, a delegate to state Democratic convention, as assistant Scoutmaster, VP of University Student Activists
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