THE INFORMATION

Remember the turn of the century? The millennium? Y2K?

One of the greatest things about the dawn of the 21st century was the way in which information is easier than ever to transmit. The internet has brought the daily video diaries of everyone from CEO’s to teenage girls into the same realm as feature films and primetime television.

It is high time that AS capitalize on new media to distribute information to the student body. One of the AS president’s primary duties is to distribute information about AS to the student body, and Alex and I are deeply committed to keeping the students involved in their government in the following ways:

We will have weekly podcasts. Alex’s will detail happenings and highlights from the Senate while mine will deal with the direction of the University and the thoughts of the administration.

We will create AS-PAN (Associated Students Public Access Network), video coverage of each week’s Senate meetings. The complete and entire goings on of each and every meeting will be made public for all of Biola to observe.

We will create online interactive polls in which students can directly voice their opinion to their senators.

We will include profile pages of all members of AS along with their contact information so that they will be easily accessible to the student body.

We will maintain our blog (currently found at bradleyandalex.blogspot.com) with the most current of information.

We will collaborate with the Registrar and each department to create one University wide calendar detailing every event that happens on campus.

All of these will be assembled in one website, easily accessible by each and every student at Biola, therefore bringing AS fully into the 21st century. All of these ideas are entirely feasible. I personally am familiar with delivery of information via the web through my work with LATE.

Alex and I intend to RECAPTURE thorough efficiency and wide use of the most current media of distributing information to the student body.