Meet the WSA Pres. candidates: Aaron Booth

By Megan Higdon
Western Herald

Aaron Booth has been a part of the Western Student Association for two years, serving as Drive Safe Kalamazoo senator and it’s chairperson for the 2009-10 school year. Booth has received numerous awards and recognitions, including Humanitarian of the Year award in 2007 and is also a part of the American Humanics Student Association. Booth is majoring in public relations with a minor in nonprofit leadership.

If elected Booth has numerous goals for WSA, but his main concern is reaching out to more student organizations and academic colleges. He said he wants students to feel comfortable letting their voices be heard and address the administration on various issues that concern them.

“I would like to see the WSA truly be the voice of the WMU students,” Booth said. “The Booth/Blaszczyk team has many initiatives for next year that we plan on executing from sustainability efforts all the way to WMU pride.”

Along with the improvement to get WSA more involved with student organizations, Booth said that he would like to see the student/administration communication improve, saying that it is one of the largest issues that he would like to combat.

Booth said his team has a number of different ways of solving this problem, including student academic leadership boards in each academic college and increasing the communication through www.SpeakUpWMU.com.

This Web site is where students can ask administrators questions and express concerns.

Booth’s vice president, Joey Blaszczyk, is majoring in sales and business marketing and minoring in communications. He is currently the Student Affairs chair in the WSA and is also heavily involved in the Haworth College of Business and many SALP programs.

The Booth/Blaszczyk team will also be running on a slate, meaning that they have two more members of their administration chosen: Erin Kaplan for student affairs chair and Kristaphor Banks for university pride chair.

Currently the Booth/Blaszczyk team has received six endorsements, including endorsements from Hillel, which Kaplan is president, and the Public Relations Organization, for which Josh Weever, Booth’s campaign manager, is the president of the executive board.

“I, along with the rest of the Booth-Blaszczyk team, have the experience, knowledge, and pride the WMU student’s need,” Booth said.

Related Article

Andrew Ladd’s profile
Q&A with Booth and Ladd
Video of first debate
Video of second debate

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