Antonio Regulier Dean Blake
ANNE RITZ
News Editor
The deadline closed last week to submit candidacy for SA president and vice president. Junior Antonio Regulier and sophomore Hughdean Blake will be running for the positions, respectively.
Hughdean Blake is a sophomore social studies education and history major, and Antonio Regulier is a senior social work and english major with minors in leadership studies, public health and african american studies.
Currently, Regulier, running for SA president, is the chair of diversity relations as an executive for SA. Blake is not currently involved directly with SA but is a part of other student groups. He is the secretary for Brother to Brother as well as the McGinnies hall council social chair.
Regulier has been a part of leadership positions on campus in different student groups.
“To start, I’ve been apart of a lot of groups on campus. I am currently president of Amnesty International; I’m vice president of brother to brother; I’m the PR person for black student union,” he said.
As president, Regulier explained that he would work on relationships with student groups as well as relationships with administration.
“I’m kind of familiar with the process of how SA works, what to go through, what they do. I think one of the biggest problems that SA has is the policies — sometimes they’re not necessarily carried out as they should. They change from time to time. They also have a big problem with the relationships with administrators or groups on campus, and a reason I want to run is because I want to fix those two main problems: reestablishing relationships with administrators and also helping enforce policies that will continue to last longer and kind of set precedence for future presidents to come,” Regulier said.
Blake agrees with Regulier’s ideas and explained that he would help him as his vice president. “When he brought his policies to me I told him, ‘those sound like good ideas. I’ll back you with it 100 percent.’”
“As vice president, I would do my best to try and reach out to different groups on campus, ask them what is it they need and what we can we do, as well as improve the image of SA at the same time,” Blake said.
Regulier feels that presidency requires someone that is outgoing, has interpersonal skills, someone that is from diverse cultures and someone that has the ability to relate to people.
“What I’m trying to say that if you are running for you’re running for SA president and to be the voice of the people, you have to understand where people are coming from; you have to understand what they’re standing for and who they are. I think that SA requires someone who can do that,” he said.
Between his involvement in groups on campus and his other skills, Regulier feels that he is a qualified candidate.
Regulier and Blake’s campaign has three main goals — what they refer to as the three R’s. They explained that respect, relationships and restore are the main components of their campaign.
They explained that they would like people to see SA as an emblem and as what represents Fredonia.
“Something that people are not asked to join but something that people have a burning to desire to join because they see how much of an impact it has on campus,” said Regulier.
They explained that they want people to see that SA stands for student rights and that it exists to represent groups, not work against them.
“As my years here in Fredonia, I’ve come to see that Student Association began to dwindle. As people wanting to join as student representatives, people wanting to get involved. For example, SA elections have been pushed back a week because people are unwilling to fulfill the spots of presidency. It just goes to show that there’s an area that SA has fallen short of in terms of reaching out to students and getting them more involved. I, as president, want to bring that back,” said Regulier.
Elections will be held Tuesday, Nov. 12, and Wednesday, Nov. 13, on the first floor of the Williams Center. Though the candidates are running unopposed, students can still choose to run as write-in candidates.