By Miriam Oh
In fighting words, Walker and Robinson stand together on service, involvement, diversity and academics.
BYU student body candidates, president Chris Walker and vice president Maren Robinson have teamed up for next year”s candidacy seeking to team up an entire student institution.
“It”s about unity, it”s about service, it”s about love,” said Walker of Las Vegas, NV.
A junior majoring in philosophy with a minor in political science, Walker, 21, offers himself to the candidacy eager to serve.
A member of BYUSA since August of last year, Walker currently serves as its Executive Director of service and programs.
Backed by a well-lit history of leadership and service involvement, Walker admires the operations within the university”s student activity hub and seeks to build upon its already established foundation.
Robinson, 20 from Orem, also comes from a background rooted in volunteer and service activity.
A junior in English, minoring in psychology and business, Robinson first joined BYUSA in search of a place where she could get involved and best draw on leadership skills. She now serves as a program director for SAC, a sub-section of BYUSA.
Both confident in each other”s ability, Walker and Robinson are certain no feasibly logical issue will go overlooked.
Focusing on and promoting service; not only for the individual, but for the whole, the pair are committed to their chiming slogan, “United we stand as a University or divided we will fall.”
Through collaboration and a mingling of multiple clubs and organizations, part of the Walker-Robinson platform proposes a Humanitarian Service Week – a one-week per semester flurry of service projects, education and involvement activities – that will make smaller ventures, larger.
“Working with all these different clubs, I”ve seen amazing clubs do amazing things. By hosting multi-club activities, I want to unify them to do some larger scale projects,” Walker said.
The Walker-Robinson platform is a four-corner proposal based on service, involvement, diversity and academics built on unity.
Implementation of these ideas, among numerous things, is the basis for a “pro-active” term in office.
“Both of us fully believe in the entire platform,” said Robinson. “The difficult thing is not only trying to make the students realize the changes that need to be made, but also providing something that will happen. And the most we can promise is that we”ll be pro-active in supporting students.”
Promises that focus on freshmen, multicultural awareness, women”s issues, services for students with disabilities, and academic improvements for incoming, current and honor”s students upon graduation, as well as a Web site central to the university and a hub for student involvement, are the focus of this pair.
“Every promise we”ve made, we”re going to keep,” Walker said. “It”s all about service and helping others and helping ourselves to become better people.”
