The Whitworthian

Issue date: 2/20/07 Last Updated: 8/9/07

Jessica Carrier/Whitworthian Executive Financial Vice President Jeff Hixson, outdoor events coordinator Nate Swenson and Boppell senator Luis Lopez interact during last week's ASWC meeting.

The executive officers of the Associated Students of Whitworth College have both succeeded and failed to put the campaign promises they made last spring into action.

Of her fall term in office, ASWC President Fa'ana Fanene said "It's been a learning experience, I've been getting my footing."

In her campaign, Fanene said she sought to build bridges between students and ASWC, students and faculty and finally students and students.

Fanene said she would like students "to know faculty outside of the classroom setting."

Fanene said she wanted to use unallocated funds to have a student versus faculty cricket game,.

"The weather got cold too fast, and I never had an opportunity to bring it before ASWC," Fanene said in a recent interview.

Fanene is tentatively planning a faculty versus student dodgeball game for the spring.

"Right now I am in the process of working out all the little kinks and I'm waiting for Dr. Le Roy's reply to confirm it," Fanene said.

This fall, ASWC passed a proposal from vice president of academic affairs Michael Le Roy to have a trial run of a Dine With the Mind Program, which allows students to take a professor to lunch at Sodexho at the expense of ASWC.

"Twelve students have already used [the program]," Fanene said. "I think sometimes people need to be reminded that the fund is available to them."

Fanene also had promised to improve relationships between students and ASWC.

"We took surveys of progress and efficiency at the beginning of the year," Fanene said. "I keep my eyes and ears open, and try to be attentive to students. I feel like we've made a sincere effort."

In her campaign Fanene said she thought the greatest need of the student body was to make Whitworth in every way possible a campus that reflects Christ's love.

When asked how she had met the challenge of representing other belief systems Fanene said "I'm intrigued by other's beliefs, and I don't want to discount others for what they believe. I have only used two Biblical scriptures as inspirational quotes this year so far."

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