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REXBURG,
Idaho – New student
body officers have been elected at Brigham Young University-Idaho for the
upcoming winter semester starting Jan. 6.
Elijah
Watkins, a Rexburg native, was elected president; Tierra Belle Finicum of Provo, Utah, vice president; and John
Hulbert of Parma, Idaho,
secretary.
Watkins,
a senior majoring in organizational communication, plans to draw on the
students around him for support in his new position.
“As
we prepare to organize various committees and councils, I look forward to
the resources from which I will have to draw from, comprised of so many
students’ talents,” he said. “A great president, or any
leader for that matter, does not stand simply on their own two feet. Rather
they represent the dedication, talents and knowledge of so many committees
which he are she represents. In other words, the president is simply the
mouth piece of many highly talented behind-the-scenes people.”
Finicum, a sophomore majoring in sociology, has been on
the Activities Council as the leadership director for the fall semester,
and said she is excited for the chance to move in to this new role.
“Leadership
has given my voice a vehicle to make changes in the world when I do not
agree with the way something is being done,” she said. “In the
past I sat in the shadows with my arms and mind idle; now I cannot sit
still when I have been taught the skills to empower change.”
Hulbert
is a junior majoring in English.
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