Bobby Ritzi

My name is Bobby Ritzi and I am honored to be serving as your senate president for this school year. Here at Witt, I am senior business major focusing in advertising and marketing communications and after graduation I hope to find myself in the Account Management Department of a successful advertising agency. In addition to senate and my studies, I am also a co-captain on the Swimming & Diving team, tour guide, Greek Standards Board member, and a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. As your president, I meet weekly with the Dean of Students, organize monthly breakfasts with Senior Staff, run our weekly senate and senate exec meetings, attend monthly faculty meetings with a voice and vote, meet with the Faculty Executive Board, sit on a Board of Directors Committee, and oversee the operations of all the student groups, clubs, societies and journals on campus.

As a member of the Wittenberg Community, Student Senate is your voice...Use us! We welcome everyone's feedback, suggestions and input on what you love about Witt and what you would like to see change. You can follow us on Twitter or Facebook, e-mail or contact any senator, and we also have a comment box located at the student center information desk. However, the best way to talk to senate is to come to our weekly meetings on Tuesdays @ 7:00pm, in the basement of Shouvlin Center. I look forward to the coming year and all of the exciting changes on campus. -Tiger Up!

Ted Winders

Hello Everyone! I am Ted Winders, the 2009-2010 Student Senate Vice President. Prior to being elected with Bobby Ritzi, I served as the President of SAAC (Student Athlete Advisory Committee). Through SAAC we organized several initiatives to increase support for athletics, boost involvement on campus, while also holding the first ever Blood Battle against Wooster to collect blood for local centers. SAAC made a great platform to get involved with the Wittenberg community as a whole. As part of the Executive Board on Student Senate I get to meet with the Board of Directors, along with President Erickson's Senior staff, all here at Wittenberg. These meetings allow us, as students, to hold a powerful voice within the upper administration. I am also serving as the Senate Liason to Dining Services. With that being said, please don't hesitate to tell us what you want changed! Outside of Senate I am a Senior member of the Men's Lacrosse Team, FIJI, and College Republicans. I also go to class, where I am a Political Science major, Economics minor, and am in the process of applying to law schools. I encourage everyone to get involved here at Wittenberg, and if there is anything I can do for you please do no hesitate to email me at s10.twinders@wittenberg.edu.

 

Ali Thompson

Hey! My name is Ali Thompson, and I am a senior (tear) biology and chemistry double major (more tears) from Parkersburg, WV. As Student Senate Treasurer, I work with Finance Committee to attempt to make sure every student group on campus gets enough money to make their club work—as long as they come to budget hearings! As this year’s budget is probably tighter than it’s been in a while, I apologize ahead of time for the cutting back that will surely happen to everyone. I also serve on the Executive Board where I give updates on the budget, attend Senior Staff breakfasts, and go to Board of Directors meetings. Outside of Senate, you will probably find me studying, eating, or working out. If you do not see me doing any of the above, I am more than likely having some fun with my friends, working one of my student jobs, or playing intramurals. I hope I see ya around, and please email me if you have any questions or anything else that I could do for you!

 

 

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Erin Slattery

Hello Tigers! My name is Erin Slattery and I the Secretary of Student Senate for the 2009-10 school year! I am a senior (weird!) Communication major from Cleveland, and I am a setter on the volleyball here at Witt. My role on senate is to take minutes of our weekly meetings, run student senate elections, and serve as an executive member. This is my second year on senate, and I am having a blast! I am also the president of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and I work for Ryan Maurer in the Sports Information Office. I am going to make sure that my LAST ONE at Witt is the BEST ONE! "Light, as we know it, is energy made visible…Pass it on!" oooooo-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

Drew Pille

Hi Everyone! My name is Drew Pille and I am excited to be your Faculty Student Coordinator for the 2009-2010 year. As FSC I act as the connection between the faculty and you the students. In doing so I will be attending monthly faculty meetings to express all of your interests, coordinating student involvement in various faculty-student committees, and regularly meeting with President Erickson and the Senior Staff to discuss important topics involving the faculty and students. I am also a member of the Committee on the Student Experience and Senate’s Executive Board, which allows me to represent us students at the Board of Directors meetings. Some other info about me outside of Senate is that I am junior Physics major, originally from Lorain, Ohio, I work in the Math workshop, and I’m a member of Delta Tau Delta. Senate is focused around you the students so it is important that you let us know what’s on your mind. Please do not hesitate to stop me on campus or e-mail me at s11.apille@wittenberg.edu with any questions you might have.

 

 

 

Leslie Chasteen

Hey wit10berg! My name is Leslie Chasteen and I am honored to be serving my fourth year as President for the class of 2010. I am a communication major from Cincinnati, Ohio and can honestly say that Student Senate has been among my all time favorite Wittenberg experiences. I have had the privilege of working with 3 other fantastic class officers all four years—Corbin Neike-VP, Andrea Berry- Treasurer, Betty Cheney- Secretary. We are extremely excited to what opportunities and challenges senior year will bring. As we have in the past, our focus will once again be on connecting with our classmates and community. This year will bring along many large scale events- one being Commencement in May. While keeping these projects as our priority, we also are ready to have some fun!! Our time here is limited and we promise to do everything we can to make it the best it can be for the class of 2010. Please let me know if you would like to get involved or have any suggestions. You can contact me at s10.lchasteen@wittenberg.edu. Thanks for reading and see ya around!

 

 

Heather DeSantis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meredith Berzins

Hey 2012! Meredith Berzins here…your Class President! I am so honored to be leading our class and sitting as your representative on Student Senate! I am excited for all that this year will offer and I feel privileged to be working with Emily Bergman (Class Treasurer), Casey Browder (Class Secretary), and our Class Cabinet which is made up of a diverse group of individuals from our class! As your class officers and cabinet members, we are excited to connect with each of you through a variety of class/campus wide activities, community service projects, and fundraising events. It is our goal to bind the sophomores not only as a class, but as a group within the University and the broader Springfield area. Please feel free to contact any of us with any questions, comments, and suggestions! You may contact me directly at s12.mberzins@wittenberg.edu! If you are interested in getting involved, we would love to have you “jump” on board! Some of the easiest ways to do so would be to join our class service initiative "Read and Feed" or come out for our class events. Best of luck to each of you…this year and always!

 

Meredith Zajac

Hey ya'll! My name is Meredith 'Mo' Zajac and I am the president of the EPIC Class of 2013. I am a GEOLOGY major and potential Environmental Science minor. Besides being honored to lead the 2013 Class, I love giving hugs. So give me one any chance you get! I am also part of the REMARKABLE 2013 Cabinet along with my wonderful officers Ann Tomko (VP), Hillary Hassink (Secretary), and Brad Bennett (Treasurer). The Class 2013 has shown me their passion for being involved and doing service. I hope to take advantage of this and feed their passion and love of Wittenberg with my own. On the subject of feeding, I also love food, and chocolate. Please let me know if you have any questions, comments or want a way to get involved. Cell ---> 614.578.5798 or s13.mzajac. But dont look me up on Facebook, because I don't have one :) Have a great year and be on the look out for 2013's 8 pounds of Fun!

 

 

 

 

Emily Bergman

Hey everyone! I’m Emily Bergman and I’m really excited to be serving all you non-Greekers as your Independent Senator for this year! I’m a sophomore Political Science major and Management minor from Wheaton, Illinois. This year I’ll be heading up the Student Involvement Committee, working with students from all facets of campus life to connect and unify the Witt family even more! If you have any questions/comments/concerns/ideas e-mail me at s12.ebergman. I’d love to hear from you, regardless of affiliation! It’s going to be an exciting year, so live it up and PASS IT ON!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ben Hanf

Hi Witt! My name is Ben Hanf and I will be representing our Wittenberg Student Body as Off-Campus Senator for the 2009-2010 academic year. As Off-Campus Senator I facilitate the bond between the Wittenberg Police and our student body. I do this by scheduling and participating in Student Senate ride-alongs with the Wittenberg Police; they get to know us and how we feel about campus security, and we gain insight on what they go through on a day-to-day basis. I also attend monthly Security Advising meetings with the Wittenberg Police and Security and different committee chairs, in which we discuss changes that could be made to strengthen the bond between the police and our student body, and ideas on how to improve campus security. In addition to security issues, I also schedule campus-cleanups for the clubs on campus, so if you want to earn some quick money for you organization, shoot me an email and I will get you set-up. Some general information about me outside Senate is that I’m a Junior Biochemistry major and a Cross-Country and Track runner; I’m an active member of Delta Tau Delta and my second home is Pickerington, Ohio. We are here for you on Senate so please contact any one of us if you have questions. I encourage you to send me an email at s11.bhanf@wittenberg.edu if you have an issue with the Wittenberg Police and Security, have anything on your mind, or if you want to schedule a campus-cleanup.

 

Brendan Corrigan

Hey Witt! My name is Brendan Corrigan and I am the Greek Senator for the 2009-2010 school year. I’m a junior Management major with a focus in Accounting. I’m from Cleveland, Ohio and love rooting for the Cavs, Indians and the Browns (sometimes). Around campus you can find me giving tours (please say “Hi”), working in the management department, as well as being actively involved in Newman Club, Peer Helpers, 2011 Cabinet as Class Treasurer, Finance Committee and Student Senate. I am also a brother of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity (former philanthropy chair). I strongly encourage all students to go through the rush process and test the waters of what it’s like to be Greek on Witt’s campus. My duties of Greek Senator include attending weekly Interfraternity and Panhellenic Council meetings, working with Greek Director Casey Stevens to strengthen the Greek Community on campus and serving on the Student Involvement Committee with the Independent and Athletic Senators to encourage a greater unity amongst Greeks, non-Greeks and Athletes on our campus. Have an epic year and GO GREEK! If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to email me at s11.bcorrigan@wittenberg.edu.

 

 

Melissa Cederqvist

Hello WITT! My name is Melissa Cederqvist and I am honored to be your International Senator this year. I am from the blue and yellow country of Pippi Longstocking, ABBA and Volvo… Sweden! At Wittenberg I am a senior double major in Chemistry and Management with double minors in Computational Science and Economics. I am a member of the American International Association (AIA) and Chemistry Club as well as the Student Director of Wittenberg Center for Applied Management (WittCAM), a Team Captain for Relay for Life and a student worker in the office of the Chemistry Department. As your International Senator I represent the international community at Wittenberg and will also be part of a committee called Build A Better Wittenberg (BABW). Together I hope we can strengthen the bond between the international group and the rest of our wonderful school. I would like to encourage all students at Witt to attend at least one AIA meeting and event, and really take the opportunity of getting to know the students that represent countries and cultures from all over the world on our campus. This year there are 45 international students representing 23 countries from 5 continents (!) at Wittenberg. Let’s take the opportunity to combine what all of them have to offer with Witts’ great atmosphere and make our school even more unique than it already is! I would like to give our new international students for this year a VERY WARM WELCOME to WITT!! We hope you will like it here! Lastly, I wish ALL TIGERS the best year of 2009/2010! Have fun and study hard!! See you around campus! If you had the patience to read through all of this THANK YOU! Please don’t hesitate to stop me at anytime or contact me @ s10.mcederqvist@wittenberg.edu if you have any questions, suggestions or concerns.

 

Collin Murdock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taylar Pompey

Hey Guys! I'm Taylar your CBS senator for the 09-10 academic year. I'm a sophomore from Cleveland, Ohio and Jacksonville Beaches, Florida (strange, I know). I along with Collin Murdock represent the voices of CBS members on campus, however if there are any issues dealing with minority students and our greater Wittenberg campus feel free to contact me at anytime!(s12.tpompey@wittenberg.edu) I'm SO excited to be on senate this year and really work with you guys. When I'm not in senate or CBS, you can find me on the pitch playing rugby Woohoo :) helping out with the connectors program, or just hanging out with friends in post. I hope to see your shining faces at 7 p.m every Tuesday in the Basement of Shouvlin. Have a GREAT year, get involved and have some fun. After all what’s better than being a TIGER!

 

 

 

Meredith Mock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lauren Welch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff Capella

Hello boys and girls! My name is Jeff Capella and I am the Student Athletic Senator for the 2009-10 academic year. I am a senior and a Management major with a minor in Economics. I am a 4 year member of the Men’s Lacrosse team here at Wittenberg, as well as, the Vice President of the Student Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC). I am excited to have been chosen as the student representative for all of the extremely talented athletes that we have on our campus. My primary role on senate is to serve as the voice of the student-athletes at our weekly meetings. I have been fortunate throughout my career at Wittenberg to experience some great opportunities in the field of Athletics. For instance, during fall semester 2008, I interned for our Athletic Director, Garnett Purnell. Last summer, I represented Wittenberg at the NCAA National Student Leadership conference which was held at Walt Disney World. Fortunately, I have also been able to extend my experience in athletics outside of the Wittenberg community. I spent this past summer serving as an intern with Columbus’ NHL franchise the Blue Jackets. Each of these experiences has taught me a great deal about all phases of athletics and I am very excited to put that knowledge to use during the upcoming school year! If anyone has questions, ideas or opinions that you want to share, please feel free to come up and talk with me on campus or email me at s10.jcapella. I wish you all the best of luck this year and of course……..GO TIGERS!!

 

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Sinjin McNicholl