Denizens of California State University, San Bernardino:

Nothing describes the college experience better than the penship of Mark Twain: "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." The Associated Students, Incorporated (A.S.I.) offers our warmest and most sincere welcome to the students of California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), as we step into our forty-fourth year of history. Students new and returning are face-to-face with an incredible achievement--matriculation into a university! And like any good goal, once met it ceases to be an ambition, and instead becomes a platform for future success.

Extraordinary challenges and opportunities await us. As the official voice of the students, A.S.I. will work tirelessly to assure that the college experience is as good as can be--by fighting for student rights, opposing unjust fee increases one every level, advocating the student opinion, and getting you involved as quick as possible! Involvement is the key to a great college experience, and A.S.I. is the premier student leadership enterprise available at CSUSB, designed to help students expand their perceived limitations, diversify their characters, and serve their campus and fellow students.

Students know that they shouldn't have to sweat their leadership. That's why it was my promise and pledge, and now my obligation to lead the Associated Students, Inc. with creativity, honor, humility, integrity, and sensibility, and to accomplish three things: to bring back student advocacy and representation, to expand the scope of A.S.I. to reach a broader, more diverse audience, and to create campus beautification projects in order to galvanize Coyote Spirit and generate an identity. So welcome, Coyotes: to your dreams, to your university, to your future. Good luck in your endeavors.

Of Excellence and Servitude,