Khalil For President
In the year-and-a-half I have known Khalil Haddad, I worked alongside him and been friends with him, I have come to know him as a trustworthy, extremely hard-working, organized and reliable person. It’s such a pleasure to write on Khalil’s behalf to encourage students to vote for him as the next President of the CSU.
It is difficult to be a consistently active representative when working with student and university organizations; however, I believe that Khalil’s track record demonstrates his ability to do just that.
I have seen him in action, first as the VP, and now the President for the Psychology Student Association, as well as in the role of Chief Executive Officer for the Sustainability Action Fund. He has the capacity to engage with people in every aspect of university life, working through issues with intelligence, planning and foresight.
Khalil is in touch with students’ concerns because he reaches out to us. He does not take it as a given that students will speak out, but encourages us to strive for better things.
During council meetings he is a voice of reason as well as an advocate for sustainability. Advocacy and action are vital, but Khalil also achieves the balance of integrating our voices together with his well-thought out ideas into plans of action. He does this because he listens and he has the experience of seeing things through to the end.
It’s time that we act to reform university governance, to reclaim our space, and to continue mobilizing against tuition hikes. I’ll be voting for Khalil with team Action because I think he exemplifies the balance between stability and the strength needed to work with and for students to effect these changes.
—Genevieve Lozier,
Co-President AHSC
This article originally appeared in Volume 31, Issue 28, published March 29, 2011.
