ASNIC senators Cassie Stephens, Danni Bain, katie Peck and Corrine Van Ostrand were recently sworn into office at NIC.
The student’s have voted, and ASNIC now has four new senators.
Cassie Stephens, Corrine Van Ostrand, and Danni Bain were sworn into office after winning the general election.
Katie Peck had to wait a little longer before she could occupy her place in the fourth open senate seat. She made NIC history by winning the first ever ASNIC election run off, which is basically another election held after a tie is reached.
“I’m really happy that we have finally had our first runoff election. It’s really nice that we get to make history while we are here at NIC,” said ASNIC Vice President Nick Dimico.
Originally tied with Olivia Hom for the fourth senate seat at 69 votes, Peck won the runoff election with a landslide 82.54% of the vote.
“I just want to be involved. Senators are required to be the voice of the students. I really want to model that, and listen to the students and represent their needs and concerns,” said Peck, who also expressed an excitement at the prospect of getting involved in campus committees. As treasurer of Cardinal Leaders in the Community (CLIC), Peck is no stranger to volunteer work. “I just really want to sink my teeth into being a senator.”
Out of the 450 votes casted, Stephens had the most with 129 of them tallied in her favor.
“I just hope to get involved with NIC as much as I can,” said Stephens. “I just want to get the general consensus of what the campus wants to see changed, or what they want to see continued.”
Stephens said she is a big supporter of campus committees, particularly the Go Green Committee, and she hopes to use her term to help inspire more students to get involved.
Following Stephens lead was Van Ostrand, who received 111 votes. Van Ostrand expressed a desire to use her role as a senator to reach people and to find student- formed solutions to campus problems.
“From the very beginning I’ve really liked people and building relationships with people, so I’m looking to get to know what people want; what they think of things going on at the college.”
Danni Bain said she wants to build relationships of a different kind.
“I really hope to help the campus become a unified community, because right now mostly traditional students and non-traditional students are separate,” said Bain, who began looking at the issue after attending an ASNIC retreat. “I’m hoping to maybe bridge the gap because we are one community.”
Bain was elected with 72 votes.
ASNIC, or Associated Students of North Idaho College, includes every enrolled student at NIC. The ASNIC Board, which includes a president, vice president, senators a Go Green Facilitator, an Outreach liason, and a Special Events liason functions as a student government and helps shape campus policy.
