Eduardo De La Rosa and Ivan Oyarzabal are the new president and vice president, while Victor Villalobos is the new student trustee.
Students and ASCC hopefuls clamored outside of the Student Activities Center last night at an unusually late hour, all waiting for the results of the student elections.
The crowd gathered as the results were put up and were able to find out at once that De La Rosa and Oyarzabal were the new president and vice president, while Villalobos the new student trustee.
De La Rosa’s platform focused on expanding improvements at Cerritos, with a focus on improving life on campus for students who take night classes.
This included making counselors more available to those students, addressing limited library hours and creating a safer environment.
De La Rosa was not on-site for the results. Oyarzabal said of the victory, “I’d like to thank all of the students that participated in the elections. I believe the true victory was engaging students and motivating the student body to become an active participant in local politics.”
Running opposite of De La Rosa was Hope Garcia. She said, “It was a great run. I wish it didn’t have to end so soon […] I wish him [De La Rosa] the best with my respects from one candidate to another.”
Villalobos, who was on site for the results, said of his victory, “It feels surreal. We earned it.”
He added, “I want to say thank you to all the students that believed in me and trusted me that I could provide that for them.”
Suleyma Castillo, who also ran for student trustee, also stuck around to see the results.
After the results she said, “I’m okay with either way that it went […] obviously we’re all in student government, so I think we all have different ideas of how to implement what the role of the student trustee is.
Each one of us has a passion for student government so I feel all three of us would have been a good candidate.” Joseph Fierro, a campaigner for De La Rosa and Oyarzabal, said, “It’s unbelievable. It’s not an easy thing […] a victory like this helps a lot.
I want to congratulate Hope Garcia and Athena Sanchez and their campaign managers for fighting hard.” De La Rosa, Oyarzabal, and Villalobos will take their new student government seats starting next semester.
