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His full name is Ronan Bennett-Vonderostensacken, but most students just know him as Ronan Bennett.
Chances are Bennett, a sophomore at CMU, was the guy who walked up to students after the 3OH!3 concert or foam party and asked enthusiastically, “How was it? Did you like it?” This is because he is doing his job as an At-Large Senator for ASG.
While most ASG senators are specific in whom they represent, Bennett is an embodiment of the campus as a whole.
“I talk to students, go around and ask about things on campus and how events turned out,” Bennett said. “I’m able to make a positive change on the campus as a whole.”
Bennett is also an ASG representative for the Fee Allocation Committee (FAC). He informs the rest of the group on what students expect and want from the school and its finances.
“It’s definitely a good experience to be able to manage the school’s budget,” Bennett said.
His favorite part of being an FAC member is that he gets to give a voice to certain clubs, being one of the founders and current president of the single fraternity at CMU, Kappa Sigma.
“Myself and five friends of mine started it,” Bennett said. “When you start a fraternity, the movies are completely wrong. It was a lot of sleepless nights, money out of pockets, and programming to get everything going correctly.”
Bennett went to Palmer High School in Colorado Springs, a town he says has two of the best Kappa Sigma chapters in Western America.
“A lot of people don’t like fraternities because there’s a stigma,” Bennett said. “But last year Kappa Sigma raised more money for a charity than any single sorority combined in the U.S. and Canada.”
On Oct. 21 the fraternity held a food and clothing drive for Catholic Outreach, a homeless shelter in Grand Junction.
“It’s supposed to make the community and school better, but lot of people seem to lose sight of that,” Bennett said. “I’ve never seen a bigger smile on someone’s face.”
Because his stepfather was a contractor Bennett moved with his parents and younger sister to Europe at the age of six. He spent most of primary school in Ireland, Scotland and England before returning to Colorado in the sixth grade.
His father, who now lives in California as a tattoo artist, has actually tattooed Bennett himself. One of his tattoos is a self-drawn Pokemon on the back of his right calf, Rhydon.
“I got it the week after I turned 18,” Bennett said. “My dad’s done all of my tattoos.”
Apart from being an at-large senator for ASG, a member of FAC and president of Kappa Sigma, Bennett also has a radio show on KMSA with fellow Kappa Sigma member Aaron Tran-Swope.
“In the end it just becomes a lot of us playing Earth, Wind and Fire,” Bennett said.
You can catch him on Thursday nights from 10 p.m. to midnight on KMSA, as well as at CMU’s best events.
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