2011 ASCC Meet The Candidate Speech
Vince Lombardi once said, “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”
I am running for ICC-Chair and the reasons for this are three-fold: one; to increase camaraderie throughout meetings and within clubs, two; increase on-campus club involvement in order to work as a collective and third; to create a continuous unifying body that seeks to uphold the welfare of the students. To unite all registered clubs and organizations for the purpose of collaboration and the advancement of club activities and events. To act as a single voice to Chabot College representing all registered clubs and organizations.
Now, I have held various leadership roles in different sporting activities and have participated in different clubs, sports and programs. Yet, my passion and conviction for this council stems from its affects and benefits that it has on this campus. Where the desire of its members strive to promote young students engaging in the process and society as a result.
As a campus composed of faculty, administration, staff, students, and many more people with dedicated service for this school and community we are faced with many challenges. These challenges are not what define us, let me tell you, but rather shape our future. Time and time again, the faculty on this campus sacrifice their own time and energy for our own dreams and because of that this year is a call for our own action and to ‘Step Up.’ Stepping up is not a new concept to us here today, a simple concept that basically means to do a little more, to commit to action and do the extraordinary. I admit, it will not be easy, for there is still work to be done.
Work that must be done—to increase communication on campus that keeps our students aware and involved in campus events and news to clubs, organizations, and even faculty.
Work that must be done—to welcome our ever increasing freshman to a friendly campus with a lively student life. To promote the active student with pride in our campus with an increasing of new clubs and club involvement.
Work that must be done to tackle these budget cuts as we sacrifice our education to meet the demands of fees, shortened classes, and the decreasing library hours.
This is our task and we are Chabot’s Keepers and its our legacy. And I am up for this challenge, the challenge to re-awaken and re-affirm our enduring values and most importantly our indomitable spirit, an indomitable spirit to never quit. For this ASCC election, there remains only one campaign party, us, the Grand Young Party!
Thank you, and please vote next Monday & Tuesday in the cafeteria lobby for your Chabot College Student Government next year and actively be part of the process that most affects you.
“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man’s proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.” — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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