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Michelle Ajemian
Year: Junior
Major: Communications major with an emphasis in Public Affairs
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: Campus Activities Board Major Events Co-Chair. Iota Delta Sorority
Favorite Leadership Quote: "Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching." - George Van Valkenberg
High School Attended: Ocean View High School
First Year Experience Section being taught: How to be successful in Business and in Life
Kelby Butterweck
Year: Senior
Major: Movement and Sports Science Major
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: R.A. Sigma Kappa. Cross Country
Favorite Leadership Quote: A day without smiling or laughter is a day wasted."
High School Attended: Glendora High School
First Year Experience Section being taught: On-campus housing and residential
Elizabeth Canales
Year: Senior
Major: Behavioral Science Major with a Peace Studies Minor
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: Deans List, Grad Marshall, Iota Delta Sorority President, Latino Student Forum, Clubs and Orgs Coordinator, Order of Omega VP, NSPO coordinator.
Favorite Leadership Quote: "Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching." - George Van Valkenberg
High School Attended: Bloomington High School
Monique Chambers
Year: Junior
Major: Biochemistry and Athletic Training Major
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: Track and Field, Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society Pres, Pres of Sister Circle, VP of Athletic Training club, Pres and founder of Eturnale' D'Vine Poetry in the park, active member of the NAACP, AASA, WONDOG, 2 year Dean's List and National Honor Roll
Favorite Leadership Quote: "If you cannot lead those you love, love the ones that follow and teach them that all things done in repetition become instinct. For this reason, excellence is not only a habit, but a lifestyle."
High School Attended: Pacific High School
First Year Experience Section being taught: Multicultural Leadership Theme
Rida Fatima
Year: Senior
Major: Political Science and Speech Communications
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: ASULV Pres, Varsity Debate, Phi Sigma Sigma, LEC Writing Tutor, History Supplement Instructor, 2005 NSO coordinator
Favorite Leadership Quote: "I have a dream" by MLK Jr. couple with JFK's "Ask not what the country can do for you, but what you can do for the country."
High School Attended: Upland High School
First Year Experience Section being taught: Involvement Theme
Michelle Hu
Year: Senior
Major: Speech Communications
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: Sigma Kappa President, ULV Dance Team member, Order of Omega Sentinel, Alpha Lambda Delta Honors Society.
Favorite Leadership Quote: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is not path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
High School Attended: Crescent Valley High School
First Year Experience Section being taught: Leadership Essentials Theme
Sara Weythman
Year: Junior
Major: Liberal Studies Major
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: Sigma Kappa Exec. VP, CAB Chair.
Favorite Leadership Quote: "If you don't risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Unknown
High School Attended: Wenatchee High School
First Year Experience Section being taught: Involvement
Mercy-Faith Kimbwala
Year: Senior
Major: Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: Phi Sigma Sigma Pres, CAB Chair, OWL, Spotlight Weekend leader, PRB Associate Justice, Learning Enhancement Center Subject Tutor. Summer R.A. Order of Omega member. Alpha Chi Honors Student. ULV Honors Student. Intramural Soccer Player. Tennis Club member. ULV Cheerleader 2004-2005
Favorite Leadership Quote: The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
High School Attended: El Modena High School
First Year Experience Section being taught: Honors
Patrick Benjamin Lee
Year: Junior
Major: Accounting Major, with a concentration in Management.
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: American Marketing Association VP of Operations. ULV Society of Accountants VP of Operations. Business Tutor in LEC. Alpha Lambda Delta Freshman Honors society member. ULV Honors Student.
Favorite Leadership Quote: "Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things." - Peter F. Drucker. "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams.
First Year Experience Section being taught: Computer Science and Technology
Alex Lester
Year: Junior
Major: Political Philosophy Major
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: ASULV Executive VP, Debate, Lordsburg Debate Union, Phi Delta Theta, OWL, NSPO Coordinator, Order of Omega.
Favorite Leadership Quote: "The are of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes." - Tony Blair
High School Attended: Rex Putnam High School
First Year Experience Section being taught: Pre-Law
Jamie Mahoney
Year: Senior
Major: Communications major with an emphasis in Public Affairs.
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: Iota Delta Sorority, RHA President, American Marketing Association, Order of Omega
Favorite Leadership Quote: "Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability." - John Wooden. "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden
High School Attended: Wheat Ridge High School
First Year Experience Section being taught: Involvement
Lauren Moon
Year: Senior
Major: Political Science and Spanish Major
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: Lordsburg Debate Union, Order of Omega member, Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society 2005 President, Alpha Chi Honor Society member, Sigma Kappa Sorority - Continuing Membership Chair, Housing and Res. Life ARC of Diversity, Debate Team. Study Abroad in Mexico, India, and South Africa.
Favorite Leadership Quote: "Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices." - Benjamin Franklin
First Year Experience Section being taught: Gender and Sexuality
Molly Morin
Year: Junior
Major: Liberal Studies and Sociology Major
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: Iota Delta Sorority, Latino Student Forum, Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, First Generation Student Success Program, Orientation Week leader, Spotlight Weekend Leader, Peer Advisor for the Liberal Studies Program.
Favorite Leadership Quote: "The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already." - John Buncan
High School Attended: Arroyo High School
First Year Experience Section being taught: Career Exploration
Seth Shelton
Year: Junior
Major: Criminology Major
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: CAB, Men's Water Polo, Men's Track Team.
Favorite Leadership Quote: "The king is the man who can."
High School Attended: Mark Morris High School
First Year Experience Section being taught: Athletics
Nick Solis
Year: Junior
Major: Liberal Studies Major
Clubs/Orgs/Activities: CAB Vice Chair, United Hermanos Fudraising Chair, OWL, Alpha Psi Omega Theatre Honor Society, Latino Student Forum Pres '05/06. Graduation Marshall. RHA Fundraising Co-Chair.
Favorite Leadership Quote: "The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself." - Edward G. Bulwer.
High School Attended: Damien High School
First Year Experience Section being taught: Teaching and Education