Lucas Lundy
Lucas Lundy is a two-year senior, majoring in recreation administration with an emphasis in community recreation and youth services, running for Associated Students, Inc. president.
Currently, he is participating in the Disney College Program. In order to take part in the program, Lundy is living in Florida and taking online courses from Fresno State.
When he graduates, Lundy plans to work with park departments and youth programs to promote success for at-risk youth. He plans to attend graduate school to study hospitality and hotel management.
A member of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, as well as a former interfraternity council member, Lundy has experienced leadership via interaction and collaboration with others. During his junior year, Lundy was the senator of the College of Health and Human Services. During his time at Fresno State, he has served on the ASI activities committee.
His campaign is centered on the idea of working together and flourishing as a student-body through connecting with others.
“I started off by saying I want to run on Purpose, Friendship and Prosperity. Pretty much, I want to implement the best-quality services and programs for students. I want to celebrate friendships and highlight academic success,” he said.
His idea for implementing such action would include working with ASI public relations to find students who represent the focus of student involvement, friendship and teamwork.
“I want to celebrate friendships,” Lundy said. “Highlight just some random people and talk about them and see what clubs they’re into ”” highlight those organizations.”
In carrying out his duties as ASI president he would work on the issues, attend meetings and learn about students concerns, he said.
“I want to utilize the demand for student involvement. I want to bring fresh new faces to change leadership,” Lundy said. “I want to have as much diversity in the committees and councils as possible.”
The Fresno native and Bullard high school graduate believes in implementing effective changes.
“I want to make sure I can keep promoting the efficiency from within ASI,” he said.
Moses Menchaca
Moses Menchaca, a third-year senior in political science, is running for president of Associated Students, Inc. (ASI).
The Patterson, Calif., native is also obtaining minors in animal science, business and philosophy and certificates in cross-cultural competency and legal studies. After his six-year education at Fresno State, Menchaca plans to apply to Stanford Law School.
As president and co-founder of the Fresno State Gun Club, as well as president of moot court and the legal pre-law fraternity Phi Alpha Delta, Menchaca has exercised academic and organization leadership.
Currently, Menchaca serves as the senator for the College of Social Sciences. In this capacity he has worked with the current ASI members and has sat in for the current president, Arthur Montejano. Working with the vice president of finance and other senators, Menchaca has been trying to reform the ASI budget while also spreading awareness of club money available from ASI.
“We set the budget now for ASI, so I’ve been trying to help out a little bit in there. Once the budget is set we have to utilize those funds or else it goes in reserves and it never gets back to the students,” he said.
In running for ASI president, Menchaca has developed a four-part platform. He said his four main principles are a degree-oriented campus, occupational reforms ”” this being the addition of more on-campus jobs ”” getting students more involved in ASI and the campus and finally, a safe and secure campus.
“I call it my DOGS platform,” Menchaca said.
Before becoming a senator, Menchaca had some misgivings about ASI.
“I always saw that ASI was more of the ‘who you know’ than ‘what you know’ type thing,” he said. “Once I got in there, I realized it is completely different.”
Menchaca says he wants students to get more involved with ASI. He would like to see more students work with and vote for their representatives.
“You can have as many helpers and supporters, but who votes is what matters.”
Jose Luis Nava
Jose Luis Nava is junior majoring is political science and minoring in Chinese. When he graduates, Nava plans to teach English abroad for two or three years. After this he wants to attend law school, where he will focus on Constitutional or international law.
A native of Merced, Calif., Nava decided to attend Fresno State to carry on a family legacy. Several family members, including his uncles, attend the university. He enjoyed the campus when he first visited and appreciates the university and the study body.
Nava has some experience with ASI politics as he was a write-in candidate during last year’s ASI presidential election and has served as an ASI senator at-large for Clubs and Organization during the 2011-2012 year. This year he is an official nominee running on the principles of transparency in student government and a safer campus.
“I would talk with campus police and see what we could do with the money they have,” Nava said. “I would see what is possible.”
If elected, Nava hopes to improve campus facilities with more library hours and small improvements to buildings and classrooms.
“The Food and Family Science building doesn’t have doors in the restrooms, in the stalls. They have shower curtains,” he said. “Things like that, that should be changed. This is kind of a dream””but I would like to see more library hours. If they left the library open till midnight, more students would be here.”
Nava is an intern with Students for Quality Education (SQE). California State University students created the organization in 2007 as a means of campaigning for the rights of higher-education students. They often work with the California Faculty Association.
Education is an issue close to Nava’s heart. As a high school student in his hometown of Merced, he was one of five local students who campaigned for a measure that provided bond funding for a new high school.
“State government is always cutting our education, cutting the budgets. It makes it a lot harder for students to graduate,” he said.
