Atop Adey Almohsen’s list of qualifications for becoming the next
vice-president (student issues) is that he’s a retired juggler, but he’s ready to come out of retirement, if only he can get your vote.
A third-year political science student running independently, Almohsen is campaigning so he can take on the feat of restructuring CUSA, and juggle all that that entails.
Almohsen said he has “witnessed CUSA pay less and less attention to student issues,” something that he said he hopes to solve if elected.
“I think that CUSA needs to be more sensitive to Carleton students rather than to more general issues,” he said.
Some of Almohsen’s primary goals are to represent the students and to launch initiatives such as the opening of a sexual assault centre and the reclaiming of student space.
Almohsen said he also hopes to provide cheaper printing costs, easier access and lower prices on lecture tapes and other such services, not to mention making OC Transpo more accessible for students by lobbying to increase bus service in and out of Carleton.
Almohsen said he hopes his independent platform will benefit his campaign. He said he feels other candidates seem to be following the same rhetoric as past candidates, “but no one has ever followed through.”
If elected, Almohsen said he plans on making sure the student body is aware of everything that is being done.
“I want students to realize what is really happening,” he said, adding that one of his main goals would be to try and hear out students, to make sure they are being fully represented.
Above all, Almohsen wants to make CUSA, its events and its programs much more accessible to students. “I want to make it much less of a headache,” he said.