Sept. 26, 2007

Contact: Bob Adams
(425) 564-3081
badams@bcc.ctc.edu

Nine Eastside residents elected
to lead BCC student government

BELLEVUE, WASH. – Students at Bellevue Community College (BCC) have elected nine Eastside residents to head the Associated Student Government (ASG) for the 2007-08 school year.

Elected were:

President: Jacob Peltier, of Bellevue, a 2003 graduate of Interlake High School. Peltier served as student government Environmental and Entrepreneurial Representative last year, as well as well as President of BCC Rotaract Club. Peltier will serve on the state-wide Community and Technical College’s Student Lobby Coordinating Team in the current school year.

Vice President of Pluralism and Student Affairs: Sergey Smirnov, of Redmond, a 2005 graduate of Redmond High School. Smirnov also will serve this year as President of the BCC Rotaract Club and Vice President of Phi Theta Kappa honor society. Last year last year he served on BCC’s Campus Activities Board and helped produce the college’s annual multicultural fair.

Emerging Technology Representative: Justin Abbasi, of Bellevue, currently a student at both BCC and Newport High School. Last year Abbasi was Assistant Section Editor for the BCC student newspaper, The Jibsheet. Along with his role in student government this year Abbasi is treasurer of the Latin American Culture Club.

Community and Campus Relations Representative: Peter Tran, of Bellevue, a 2006 graduate of Interlake High School. Tran also has been named Vice President of the BCC Rotaract Club for the current school year. Last year Tran was active as news editor and copy editor of the BCC student newspaper, The Jibsheet.

Campus Events and Sports Representative: Marcus Sweetser, a 2006 graduate of University High School in Spokane and now a Bellevue resident. Sweetser served in the same student-government capacity last year.

Environmental and Entrepreneurial Representative: Lauren DeWitt, of Issaquah, a 2004 graduate of Issaquah High School. DeWitt co-founded the BCC Student Energy Action Team last year and was active as a member of BCC International Business Exploration Club, the Student Science Association and Students Against Hunger and Homelessness.

Chief Justice: Jorge Enrique Villa-Gomez, of Bellevue, a 2005 graduate of the Queen Mary School in Mexico City. This year, as last, Villa-Gomez will also serve as a vice president of the Latin American Culture Club and as a volunteer for the BCC Peer-to-Peer Mentoring and Student Ambassador programs, the BCC Rotaract Club and the BCC International Student Association.

Associate Justice: Yoonmi Park, of Bellevue, who graduated high school in 2005 in Seoul, South Korea. Park was active at BCC last year as a member of the Rotaract Club and Phi Theta Kappa honor society, while also working as a math tutor in the college’s Academic Success Center. Park will also serve as an officer of Rotaract in the current school year.

Associate Justice: Kelsey Neels, of Newcastle, a home-schooled high school senior who attends BCC under the Running Start program. Neels’ other involvements include teaching American Sign Language to 15 home-schooled kindergartners in Redmond.

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