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Friday the NS student body elected the Student Body Officers for the 2018-19 school year. Chance Clawson was elected president, with Kaleb Cox as vice president, Linzy Flinders as secretary and Brock Justesen as activity agent.
Clawson plays quarterback on the football team and has previously played on the basketball team, although this year he tore his meniscus, so he was unable to play basketball.
Clawson’s decision to run for office started simply with his school spirit.
“I always liked the idea of sharing my pride as a leader,” Clawson said. He wants to be a role model for the younger students.
One thing Clawson plans on implementing is changing the stigma that surrounds our school’s dances; he wants to liven the environment and make more students want to come and to stay longer. Clawson is ready to take on his duties as president and plans to do so with his ability to not get discouraged and to remain self-motivated.
Cox always loved the idea of being in leadership roles and the idea of making connections with people has always appealed to him. Cox enjoys working with people and has come to know that there is good in everyone.
“In an SBO role you are representing the student body,” Cox said, “so I want to be able to represent all of the student body and get to know students I wouldn’t normally get to know.”
Along with befriending more students, Cox wants the students to all feel like they have a role.
“Not everyone needs to have a role in making the school function,” Cox said, “but we all have a role in the way that we make this school what it is.”
Every student deserves to be able to find something they love doing and to be able to do that through the school. Along with this, Cox wants everyone to feel that they have a place in the school; that they are accepted and that they can be accepting.
Flinders loves being social and because of that, she has been very involved in high school. Her involvement is what has made her high school career so enjoyable, and she hopes to encourage other students to do the same.
“There has become a separation between classes and groups,” Flinders said. “I’ve had the opportunity to get to know so many people, so I want to get the school more united and create an even better atmosphere; a friendly environment where students want to come to school and support each other.”
As a member of Hope Squad, Flinders has been involved with the uplifting Twitter comments posted around the school.
“It’s been important to put up the good things about people around the school because those good traits are what you start to focus on; it has helped me see the good in everyone,”
Flinders said.
Justesen is excited to be an SBO because of his personal goal to get to know every student by name so they always have a friend to talk to.
“My football coach said, ‘Brock, I need you to do me a favor, I need you to sit with kids who sit alone at lunch. Be their friend,’” Justesen said.
Justesen had plans to do this already but having his coach encourage him pushed him even harder to work towards his goal.
“I want students to have fun at the school and feel like they have somewhere that matters, a place where they are wanted,” Justesen said.
He also plans on finding ways to get more students interested and excited about the school’s dances.
