Someone you should know
Student Body President-elect Josh Reimnitz
The Spectrum: What year are you in college and what is your major?
Josh Reimnitz: I’m a junior and I’m a mass communications and speech communications major.
TS: Where did you grow up?
JR: I’m from beautiful Bismarck, N.D.
TS: What is your favorite food?
JR: Popovers.
TS: What in the heck is a popover?
JR: A popover looks like a giant muffin, that is hollow inside and it’s warm and melts in your mouth. It’s absolutely delicious. A popover is basically just bread that you cook up yourself.
TS: What is your weirdest habit?
JR: I’m the type of person who organizes their closet based on type of clothing and color. Oh, and I also need to fix the blinds so they’re even.
TS: What activities and organizations are you involved in?
JR: Well, obviously student government. I am the assistant general manager of ThunderRadio, co-founder of Students Today, Leaders Forever, a member of Lambda Pi Eta and also a member of the History and Traditions Council.
TS: Who is your favorite teacher and what is your favorite class?
JR: I enjoyed taking (Communication) Theory and human communication with Dr. Nelson. He keeps things light but still challenging so I have to work hard. There are usually fun people in the classes too.
TS: What is your favorite free-time activity?
JR: I enjoy playing campus golf with my roommate Keith.
TS: What is campus golf?
JR: You use a golf club and a tennis ball and pick objects around campus as the holes.
TS: So besides campus golf, what else do you do in your free time?
JR: I play Frisbee golf, basketball, watch “The Office” and go rollerblading.
TS: What is your favorite movie?
JR: Space Balls.
TS: Do you have a particular place or type of food you like to eat?
JR: Um, well I’m a really picky eater. So I usually get the same thing no matter where I go. I usually just get a hamburger whether it’s Chinese or something like that. I would say that Applebee’s is a solid choice for me.
TS: I know you went over all of this while campaigning, but now that you are president, what issues are you looking forward to working on the most?
JR: Probably the International Student Break Housing. I’ve been approached by several people already who have expressed an interest in helping with this and I’m really excited to get into that. It involves a lot of collaboration and so groups are going to have to work together and it will increase a lot of communication on campus.
TS: What was the first thing that ran through your mind when they announced you as the 2007-2008-student president?
JR: I just hugged my mom; she surprised me by coming up here.
TS: What are your summer plans?
JR: Oh I need a job. If anybody has a job, I really need one. I’ll be hanging around Fargo all summer going to some orientations and making sure everything is all ready for next school year.
TS: If you had one tip or piece of advice to give to students, what would you tell them?
JR: Get involved, because your college experience is what you make it so if you participant and do something you love, you’ll enjoy it.
TS: Anything else you want to add?
JR: Man, just thanks to everyone and don’t be afraid to come say hi to me.
Student Body Vice President-elect Clara Presser
The Spectrum: First, where did you grow up?
Clara Presser: I lived on a farm for ten years, in Turtle Lake, N.D., then I moved to Carrington, N.D. in the fifth grade where I graduated from high school. My parents moved to Aberdeen (S.D.) last January and then this April they moved to Jamestown, so Fargo is home for me.
TS: What is your major?
CP: Currently, I am a third-year senior in vocal performance.
TS: So are you going to graduate after this year?
CP: I will be graduating next May, I don’t really know how though.
TS: Do you have any plans about what you want to do after graduation?
CP: I do; usually with vocal performance you have to go to grad school and get a master’s right away but there is a job opening where my boyfriend lives. It’s at a community college, and I’d be teaching music appreciation part-time and then I could give private lessons and have my own studio. But ultimately when I’m older, I would like to go to graduate school and get a music degree so I could just research music and composers and be a professor.
TS: What do you do in your free time?
CP: I really like to sit around and read. Anything that involves not moving around and not thinking too hard. I like to read, watch Atlanta Braves baseball, cook, hang out with friends and listen to music; I have music playing everywhere I am, and I like to travel too.
TS: Have you gone anywhere interesting?
CP: Yeah, I’ve been overseas twice on different choir tours. I’ve been to London, Paris, Germany, Austria, Lichtenstein and Italy.
TS: You mentioned before you like to cook, what is your favorite thing to cook?
CP: I like to cook pasta dishes or I have the Red Lobster biscuit recipe. I’m not really good with turkey or meat and potato type meals yet, but pasta dishes are easy.
TS: What’s your favorite class?
CP: Well, I really like my music history classes. I like the general idea of taking classes that aren’t in your major just because you’re a more well-rounded person and you don’t get bored with all the classes that your taking. So I like taking music history but I also like taking science classes.
TS: What’s you’re favorite NDSU activity?
CP: Homecoming just because that’s where all the pride comes from. Power puff football was so awesome; the homecoming show is always great and tailgating of course. Just being with everyone who loves to be a bison makes it fun.
TS: What kind of organizations are you active in?
CP: Well I’m in student government of course. I’m in Sigma Alpha Yoda, which is a women’s service fraternity that’s music oriented, I was a member of biotech club for a couple of years and I’m currently a member of Blue Key Honor Society.
TS: Looking towards next year, what are you looking forward to changing the most?
CP: Everything in our campaign is something that we think will be achievable. I’m looking forward to hearing what the students have to say. We got so many great ideas from students when we went around and talked to organizations.
TS: What are your summer plans?
CP: Well I’ve worked the past three summers so I decided to take the summer off and not work. I am going to go to an Opera Institute for a couple weeks though. Plus I have a lot of weddings to go to also.