Get to Know Your Student Government: Senator Cheyenne Salazar

Cheyenne Salazar, 20, Fergus Falls, Pre-Med (tentative) – ASNIC Senator

Favorite Color: Blue. I love outside: it’s the color of the sky and it’s the color of the water. It’s pretty in all shades.

Favorite Movie: “Life of Pi.” I love the visuals of it, and the music, everything about it I love. The art of it and the moral of it. He goes and loses his whole family and is stuck on a boat with a tiger for over like a hundred days; it’s just interesting and beautiful.

How NIC should look a year after leaving student government: I have a couple ideas right now, but I’m still working things out right now because I’m new. But the thing I’m interested in right now, which Heather Erikson [Student Development Assistant Director] has been talking about for like ten years is getting a Recreation Center. It’s taken that long for a reason, but that would be a wonderful thing for students. It helps students physically and by maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and for the most part tries to keep them out of trouble and introduce them to new people, which would be a great improvement for student life. That’s currently what I’m interest in.

Inspiration to join student government: I got introduced to it by Richard [Fortman, ASNIC President] because I came in here asking about clubs, and he was like; “Oh hey, if you’re interested…” And he talked to me about it, and I previously was in student government in my other college that I went to. I was an ambassador and senate, and he told me about how we could make it better here and that really pulled me in.

Celebrity Crush: Ryan Gosling.

Favorite bands/music: I’ll just go with a type of music because it’s so broad: I like Indie Folk, Indie Rock, Swing, Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, Head and The Heart, stuff like that.

If A.I. could equal our free will and chose to take action against our society, would it be OK to press a button turning them off: Technically we created them, but I feel like since it’s hypothetically a being, it wouldn’t be ethically right to destroy that. I feel like instead of wiping them out, just isolate them to an area where they couldn’t harm anybody, or even something bizarre like put them on the moon.