New SAB director plans to reach students of all ages

This year’s Student Activities Board director wants to make sure all of the SAB funds, which students pay as along with their tuition, are used on this year’s activities.

SAB Director Sophie Tung said, “Looking at the past four years’ budgets, there is a lot of money that just rolls over. Maybe we could use that more for prizes, even little ones, as incentive.”

Tung is a business major in her third year at MHCC. She’s been a nursing and a psychology major before choosing business this year.

“I’ve always had the set goal of majoring in psychology but I’m going to end up with a job in marketing, because marketing is psychology,” she said.

Tung said she wanted the job as SAB director because she’s always loved planning events and loves watching event planning shows. “Every road trip, every vacation, I feel like I’m always the one planning,” she said.

She also said she wanted to get involved to help get into the university of her dreams: University of California – Berkeley.

The SAB switched its alliance from the Oregon Student Association to the Oregon Community College Student Association to save around $75,000, said Tung.

“We’re pretty much getting the same things and I think OSA was wanting a lot more from us and we just don’t have the money because we are a community college,” Tung said.

She said SAB still takes part in the OSA retreats, which are still offered without being a member. “We get the training still, which is pretty key because then we can take it here for our leaders,” she said.

One of Tung’s new marketing ideas is to spread out the food given out during events to areas other than the Main Mall, ” she said. That may result in more involvement from students who don’t always walk through the Main Mall, she said.

Tung is also working with Director of Communications Laura Aguon to post events on the Call of Nature News.

“I know everyone reads the CNN when they’re in the bathroom,” she said.
Hiring a graphic designer to build posters and design t-shirts and signs for the parking lot is also in the works, she said.

Tung said SAB is making plans for a variety of events. “We’re already planning the Blood Drive, Oct. 19-21, the Halloween Dance, and then there’s Breast Cancer Awareness month and Diversity Week is coming up,” she said.
Tung said she wants to make the events friendlier to all ages this year. “It’s not just students fresh out of high school,” she said.

“It would be great if during the dances we could provide childcare,” she said. Tung said she would have to find out what liabilities and details are involved before being able to implement such a plan.

Tung said she also gets ideas is from hearing people talk and seeing how people are reacting about certain things on campus. “I like being able to pull something in that lots of people can relate to and like, something different,” said Tung.

“My overall vision is to really make a difference and to make memories in the students minds that Mt. Hood was a community college that I went to and it was a really good experience,” she said.

The next event on the SAB calendar is the Blood Drive Oct. 19-21.

“The Student Activities Board is responsible for recruiting donors; it’s not the Red Cross. We’re going to be going around with clipboards and going into classrooms,” Tung said.

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