ASEWU fills two council positions

Two vacant positions on the ASEWU Council have now been appointed to Collin Schuler and Makai Borden.

Schuler is now the Technology Advancement representative, and Borden is now the Athletic Affairs and University Advancement representative.

Both candidates were selected from a pool of applicants and brought on by a committee sanctioned by the ASEWU.

Schuler, a 21-year-old accounting major and junior, has always had an interest in technology.

For the past year, he has worked for Tech-EZE, fixing problems with Blackboard bugs to lost passwords.

Along with addressing student technology concerns, Schuler has also been actively engaged in campus leadership roles.

“I’ve had an interest in student government for a while. I served on the Dressler Hall board my first two years here,” said Schuler. “This coming year, I’d even like to run for the same position and try to retain it.”

Schuler hopes to maximize the ease of use of technology on campus in an effort to better serve students.

“Right now, I’d really like to see maybe some easier tactic use for students. Technology can be very confusing,” Schuler said. “We’re going to be looking at ways to make technology simpler and faster for students. But at the same time, [we’re] trying to bring down costs.”
 
Beyond just serving his position on various committees such as the Student Technology Fee Committee, Schuler hopes to use this opportunity to connect with students.
 
“Outside of all this, I’m a student as well,” Schuler said.
 
Borden is a senior and has been playing EWU Football as an outside linebacker for the past five years. He was also one of the captains last year, and hopes to apply his experience gained from captaining the team to his new position with the ASEWU.
 
“I feel that a lot of what I learned in football carries over into the business aspect of the council and the work ethic it takes to get this job done so-to-speak,” Borden said.
 
Graduating from Puyallup High School in 2005, Borden has been actively involved in sports his whole life. Now as the representative of Athletic Affairs, he’ll be able to use his knowledge of sports and networking to help improve EWU Athletics.
 
“I want to help the athletics and the university and I want to get those to the place that they need to be,” Borden said. “We’ve always had great sports and we have a great community of students, and I really feel we can even step it up another notch.”
 
Borden believes that Eastern could be as well- known as colleges like Gonzaga or Washington State University and plans to use his position to put EWU on the map.
 
Being involved in athletics at Eastern has helped him to establish contacts with nearly every athletic department on campus, according to Borden.
 
“I think the most exciting thing for me is that I have this opportunity to do something good and help people out,” Borden said.