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This year CMU welcomes a new ASG President, Telbe Storbeck, and Vice President, Ariel Diamond. The team won the student election last spring against Adrienne Barlow and Blake Schafer. Over the past few months Storbeck and Diamond have put in long hours to serve students for the upcoming year.

“We at ASG don’t to anything unless we hear the students’ voice; their want and their need,” Diamond said. “We’re here to provide for the students. It’s their money.”

They are currently preparing for an upcoming concert, the start of a new organization and homecoming. They are also working on anti-violence programs and maintaining CMU’s low student fees.

“We see the need to be very conservative when budgeting this year,” Storbeck said. “However, we still need to be able to operate at a level of satisfaction for our students.”

In a recent survey ASG and PAC found that the number one desire among students was to host a concert. On Sept. 1 the band 3OH!3 will perform on campus and will be free for CMU students.

In the past couple of weeks they have also been preparing to launch a designated driving club called MavRides.

“We have everything purchased and next week we should be rolling with this program,” Storbeck said.

Last year ASG began their work with campus safety by holding anti-violence forums, and this semester they are continuing their efforts for campus safety. Storbeck and Diamond hope to make students aware of all of the services available to them.

“We think that more involvement cuts down on violence and incidents on campus,” Storbeck said. “If you’re a closer knit community, we can have some more of that peer-to-peer policing.”

The pair is working to create a student life that doesn’t necessarily follow the lead of a big university, but specifically fits the CMU community.

“We don’t want to compete with the big dogs,” Storbeck said. “We are Colorado Mesa University. We do things differently. We want to find out own and that’s why we are doing our own.”