Students and the Election.

I had the opportunity to ask a few students here at Cal State Los Angeles about the issues in the following elections that are important to them. I got different answers from each student, because each student is affected differently. These are their comments.

A college student, who is her second year at Cal State Los Angeles, believes that now on days is harder to get a degree in college. Her major is pre-nurse. She is Japanese.

Then, I ask Cal State student Albert Hernandez, a transfer student and Business major, about what issue for the following elections is important to him, and he said that immigration concerns him the most. I asked him, “why?” and he said, “…Because people are being separate from their families and they can’t be together”. I also ask him if he or anyone he knew was affected in some way, but he reply, “…not indirectly.”

When I ask freshman Melissa Hua, who is an Exercise Science mayor, what is the election issues affecting her, she said, “Jobs are important… but because the economy is getting lower… if you succeed in your studies you will succeed.” Melissa believes that with an education, you will succeed and get a job in your career. “Studying is hard” she said, because she believes that education is the key to success. Melissa is currently a full time student and she has is unemployed.

“Getting your degree is more important…” stated Natallie DJansenzian,”… it is hard to buy books and pay for gas.” Currently she is not getting a lot of money from FAFSA. She is currently a freshman and a Biology major here at Cal State Los Angeles.

“The most difficult issue is getting a job, even if we get a degree, is worthless, if we don’t have any jobs that can provide for us and to help support ourselves.” said Moses Georgian. Georgian is Biology major and a freshman student at CSULA. Currently he is working at sizzler on Saturdays only, and he only works five hours. “My boss cut me hours and he is firing workers, I am not sure if I am going to survive one more year here.”

Out of five students and three issues, these results I got. Three students are concern with Education; one is concern with jobs and one with Immigration.