Candid(ates) Talk - Ted Horton

Okay, this is probably one of the first videos taken. The sound is pretty horrible, so you may want to turn your speakers down. Introducing Ted Horton, candidate for V.P. University Affairs.

Ted Horton: Is the camera on?

SFUO BLOG: I have a webcam on, yah..

Ted Horton: What are you webcasting to?

SFUO BLOG: I will be broadcasting to the website, hopefully.

Ted Horton: There`s no wireless in here, is there`?

SFUO BLOG: No, there isn`t.

Ted Horton: Oh okay

SFUO BLOG: No, there, its not on live feed. That would be amazing, that would be absolutely amazing. You want to talk on here?

Ted Horton: About what?

SFUO BLOG: Anything.

Ted Horton: Why not? It`s going on your blog?

SFUO BLOG: Possibly a new blog. SFUO TV perhaps? Something that hasn`t been around for ages... I will cover that up, because it gets kind of disconcerting, to look at yourself.

Ted Horton: No, I like it.

SFUO BLOG: You like it? You like preaching to yourself?

Ted Horton: Well, I mean, ideally you`d have a picture of someone attractive up there but you`ve already got it.

SFUO BLOG: Ahh! Damn... DAMN...So, we are here tonight, in the 90U salon.

Ted Horton: Is it already recording?

SFUO BLOG: It is recording, its been recording for the past 30 seconds. Oh no, almost a minute now! And... I was wondering why, why you think you could make a difference in the life of residents on campus.

Ted Horton: Well, first of all, I know the life of residents (camera falls) Camera!

SFUO BLOG: Oh no!

Ted Horton: I also dropped my camera.

SFUO BLOG: Okay.

Ted Horton: I know the life of residents, I lived in 90U in my first year, I know how hard it can be to build a community, especially in 90U where you have two doors blocking you from everyone else. And you`ve got your lounge, but some of them are so underfurnished. Some lounges have four couches, a foosball table and a TV, and some have three chairs and a table. And no one wants to hang out. So it`s very difficult to build a community in these places.

SFUO BLOG: Except for people who love large amounts of space with nothing in it.

Ted Horton: You could, theoretically, have a congo line party

SFUO BLOG: Fightclub.

Ted Horton: Or a fightclub. But, by and large, 90U is hard to build a community in. But we did. We built our community by potluck. By potluck, dance party, murder mystery, sleeping over in the lounge, going out to bars together. It`s because we knew we had to pull everyone out of their room. We had an open door policy for people on our floor to get to know one another. And we did, we had a fantastic floor. And we had people from three floors above us and three floors below us hanging out in our lounge because we became the place to be. But, it`s difficult for residents who want to manage and it`s easier to be on campus too. But it`s easier for them to kind of withdraw from campus, because they are so close. They can just go to class, come right back to rez and go right back on to their computer. I know that was what I did during my first week, because I did not want to leave my room either. It was so convenient, it was so much easier to go on MSN and talk to my friends there. Requiring to make a campus community as engaging for residents makes them want to not just to connect with their floor, but connect with their building, with all residence, and with other events on campus. So it`s an engaging campus community. That they have good courses they want to go to, good events that they want to come to and they feel like it is their campus. And not just A campus that they have to be in.

SFUO BLOG: And you are running for Vice President University Affairs.

Ted Horton: Yes.

SFUO BLOG: Umm... If there was one thing that you could do in residence that you can`t do right now, what would it be?

(We interrupt this interview to hand in our forms so that we can post stuff in residence. CASPAR has our souls as collateral.)

SFUO BLOG: Okay. So. What would you do, if you could do anything in residence?

Ted Horton: I would make it easier for residents to host their own events. It was a big obstacle for us to try and build our floor`s community, to try and meet new people and host events. That every time we wanted to, we would have to go through the RAUO, or CASPAR, or CLS trying to get ahold of the 90U lounge. OR to try to get have enough people on our floor for an event, but the CA and other people would say "You`re past capacity.."`but we had no facilities and no way around it. Or to try and use the kitchen to host a potluck; we couldn`t bring people from other buildings because technically it`s for 90U residence only. The other buildings are so underequipped, so retro- in their outfitting, that they don`t have proper kitchens on their own. If you want to host these things there aren`t enough facilities, there aren`t spots in the infrastructure. Nor will the bureaucracy allow you to do it. The RAUO office has a DVD player and an inflatable if you want to rent it out. But you have to be down there before 7 o`clock if you want to take it out because they are going to close their office. IF you`re going to have someone crash that night, they are going to come back from the bar, rather than drive, at two in the morning. You want to have an inflatable mattress for them because you don`t want them to crash on the floor. Because they have the same carpet that they`ve have for the past ten years that contains any number of STI`s.

SFUO BLOG: Okay.

Ted Horton: So, I would want to connect the SFUO with the RAUO to provide the services the residents need to create their own community.

SFUO BLOG: Okay. So, if you had three words to describe the chief information officer of the elections, Wassim Garzouzi, what would they be?

Ted Horton: (Chortles) What a bad enemy to make. I don`t want to choose the wrong words.

SFUO BLOG: Okay, then choose the right words.

Ted Horton: (Pause) Jovial.

SFUO BLOG: Okay

Ted Horton: Cynical.

SFUO BLOG: Okay.

Ted Horton: (Longer Pause) Indescribable.

SFUO BLOG: Okay. Jovial, cynical, and indescribable. Thank you very much.

Ted Horton: My pleasure.

SFUO BLOG: Have a nice night. (Grunts as he gets up) Let`s go find some other...

Ted Horton: Nice idea.

SFUO BLOG: ...unlucky bugger.