Meet: Rina Katchur presidential candidate, and Coco Curtis vice-presidential candidate.
Major and year:
Katchur: Public relations sophomore
Curtis: Public relations junior
What makes you qualified to lead the PAB?
Katchur: We're very involved in campus and community events and have had a lot of experience with leadership. I've been marketing director for ASU Homecoming 2004, I'm involved with my sorority, vice president of the [ASU] Public Relations Student Society of America and work in the Greek Life office, where I've planned 1,000-person events.
Curtis: I have leadership and budget experience, which is part of the PAB vice president job and serve as auxiliary chair in my sorority.
What is your platform and why?
Katchur: We think of ASU as a large, diversified community and want to make sure PAB events appeal to a wider range of people.
Curtis: We want to hold more events with bigger names. We want people to talk about our events, rather than talking them up.
How much of your platform can you realistically expect to accomplish?
Katchur: We think it will be a transition year, but we think it will set the tone for future PABs.
Curtis: We think that we can accomplish everything.
What would you do differently from this year's PAB administration?
Katchur: We think they did a good job. We want to start projects earlier and keep the staff cohesive. I think projects get started and then people get lost along the way.
With three competing campaign tickets, how will you distinguish yourself?
Curtis: One of us has PAB experience, and one has outside experience. To get here, we're both really motivated and have a lot of insights.
What are the weaknesses of your campaign?
Katchur: We're both public relations majors so we have a lot of good ideas, but we just don't have the money.
Reach the reporter at elias.arnold@asu.edu.
