Nina Fuentes

Sophomore, LAS

ABOUT THE CANDIDATE

Nina Fuentes is a sophomore in LAS. She started the Illinois Policy Debate Team, is a member of Lambda Theta Alpha, a Latina sorority, and has been actively involved in community service in the Champaign-Urbana area.

FIRST ISSUE

Fuentes is concerned about the rising tuition costs for out-of-state students, who she believes add diversity to the campus, as many of them are international students. She would like to see the financial aid office become more active in helping to offset increasing student costs.

SECOND ISSUE

Fuentes would like to see facilities reserved for people in specific colleges like Engineering open up to everyone at the University.

THIRD ISSUE

Fuentes wants to see faculty diversification during the next few years and plans to support the University’s strategic plan addressing faculty diversity.

Christopher Kantas

Junior, LAS

ABOUT THE CANDIDATE

Christopher Kantas is a junior in LAS. He is a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and has served as the group’s risk management chairman. He has been a member of the Illinois Student Senate for the last year, serving as co-chairman of the Committee on Student Rights.

FIRST ISSUE

Kantas wants to get students involved with tuition and funding issues. He hopes to create a Web site through which students will be able to contact their state representatives and senators to express their concerns about these issues.

SECOND ISSUE

Kantas wants to improve public transportation and safety. “As trustee, I want to try to get more resources for Safe Rides.”

THIRD ISSUE

Kantas believes students should be able to attend classes in buildings that are not crumbling. “I think that it’s important that students realize that they shouldn’t have to go to class everyday in those poor facilities.”

Mike Trojanowski

Junior, Business

ABOUT THE CANDIDATE

Mike Trojanowski is a junior in business. He serves as a consultant for the Office of Technical Consulting Resources, a student run consulting firm. He also served as the treasurer of Sigma Alpha Lambda Honor Society, the vice president of Student Investments and the sorority relations chairman for Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

FIRST ISSUE

Trojanowski wants ICES forms to be mandatory for every class and to have the results for every question published.

SECOND ISSUE

He believes students deserve a quality education. He wants to achieve this by reducing tenure requirements and increasing English proficiency among professors and teaching assistants.

THIRD ISSUE

Trojanowski wants to retain Chief Illiniwek. “The removal of the Chief will cause the University to lose a lot of money, but not just from alumni donations.”