Dylon Harrison
News Editor
As with every new school year, ASISU elections have come and gone, and with them has come time for a new student to take over as president of the Associated Students of Idaho State University (ASISU).
The ASISU president for the 2019-2020 school year will be Camdon Kay.
Kay has been involved with and served in leadership positions for many organizations at the university during his time as a student. During this school year, he worked as a university ambassador, guiding tours of potential students around ISU.
“The cool thing about the ambassador program is they really instill a love of the university in all the students in that program,” Kay said.
He credits this as the inspiration for one of his main goals of his presidency, improving the appearance of the school to increase enrollment, citing the declining enrollment numbers over the past few years.
“If you improve enrollment, you’re helping the university as a whole,” Kay said. “I would like to invest in some things to benefit that.”
He said he hopes to hold as many fundraisers as he can organize so ASISU can have as much funding as possible to “invest in improvement.”
“There’s a lot that ISU has that is sort of outdated,” Kay said. “As much as we don’t like to think about it, when we’re taking high schoolers on tours and they walk through the foyer of Reed’s Gym, it’s a little old. High school students don’t really like that.”
He has also been a member of the University Honors Program (UHP) since his first semester at ISU.
Kay decided to come to ISU for the scholarships he was offered. Originally, he had planned to go to college in Montana for the easy access to multiple ski resorts.
“I have been so fortunate,” Kay said. “Coming to ISU has really changed my life and made me a better person.”
Kay and his running mate, Kiran Pandey, won the ASISU elections by a large margin, securing their victory with 543 votes to their opponents’ 217.
“I just think my group of people that I ran with have a lot of really good connections across campus,” Kay said. “I just had a great crew, and they worked hard, and they had a lot of networking they can utilize.”
Kay and Pandey personally went to multiple classrooms to speak to students and encourage them to vote, whether it was for them or not.
Kay also hopes to bring more attention to services available to students, such as tutoring and counseling services.
“An important thing that we need to work on this year is just making sure students are aware of their resources,” Kay said.
