{"id":292520,"date":"2026-04-30T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/292520\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:44:08","slug":"associated-student-government-candidates-share-their-campaign-goals-the-rampage-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/292520\/","title":{"rendered":"Associated Student Government Candidates Share Their Campaign Goals \u2013 The Rampage Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresno City College is holding its 2026-2027 Associated Student Government (ASG) elections with voting starting April 28 through April 30. Students have the opportunity to vote for a new president, vice president, ICC chair, treasurer, student trustee and senator.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Diljot Singh Rai is running for ASG president and is currently dual majoring in political science and law public policy and society. In the past year, he noticed that he and other students often only come to class and then leave. He\u2019s aiming to hold activities that motivate students to stay on campus longer to socialize.<\/p>\n

Love Quezada is majoring in communications and is running for ASG president promising to listen to student concerns and fight for change. She works in student activities and said she regularly engages with students. She plans to continue speaking with them at future events to understand their needs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI actively listen, take notes and actually fight instead of one ear and out the other. There\u2019s so much that students demand, and I noticed that a lot of it tends to die out, I want to fight for there to be actual change,\u201d Quezada said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rai wants to address expensive textbooks. He pointed out how classes can offer free or low-cost textbooks, and classes that require costly books can be detrimental to students facing financial challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to look at policies in place that are affecting students like you and me. If a teacher has a mandated textbook policy, we are required to buy it, but a lot of professors don\u2019t require you to buy a textbook, or it\u2019s free and available. That is an approach I agree with. For these professors that require you to buy a textbook, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m okay with that. For a student that may be on housing and food insecurity, that $60 goes a long way,\u201d Rai said.<\/p>\n

If elected, Quezada plans on enhancing facilities for everyone on campus and improving accessibility for students with disabilities. She aims to notify students when services are down and have better maintained classrooms and buildings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to push for this campus to be ADA compliant as it is already, I want to push for more accessibility, sometimes things go out of service and no one knows,\u201d Quezada said. \u201cI want to push for facilities to be up and running so this campus is accessible to everyone. We as a campus have people from all walks of life, we need to be a better campus with our facilities in how we manage and maintain them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rai wants students to be informed that they can contact him in ASG to use their voices. If students have opinions about the campus, he said ASG is a safe outlet for them to express themselves. He recommends students to use their voting rights to elect a candidate that does something about what students have to say.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour voice matters. Your voice holds a lot more power than you think it has. Voting is the one right that you have, and there\u2019s a lot of rights being violated in this country, in this state and that is the only way sometimes that you can express your opinions,\u201d Rai said.<\/p>\n

Quezada spends her time working with multiple organizations that focus on improving communities. At FCC, she\u2019s an active senator of ASG and also works with the Puente Program<\/a> which helps prepare Latino students to transfer to four year colleges and universities. She\u2019s also involved with M.E.Ch.A<\/a>, a student led club that promotes education and activism in Chicano communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Outside of school, she leads the youth advisory council of the Chicano Youth Center<\/a> in downtown Fresno, which hosts events that socialize and give back to the local community.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been involved in my community. Some call it activism, some call it social justice, whatever it may be, I\u2019ve been on the streets protesting since I was quite literally 3 years old. I come from a long lineage of involvement and getting active to use that voice,\u201d Quezada said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rai feels ready to run for president with a history of past and current leadership experiences. According to Rai, he was president of Sikh Honors club, created the student trustee position at central unified school district and created the cultural ambassadors club as a freshman at Justin Garza High School. The club aimed to stop cultural insensitivity and bullying on campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He currently works for the Jakara movement<\/a>, a non-profit organization that helps Punjabi Sikhs and other marginalized communities.<\/p>\n

Running for vice president, Jasleen Ganger refers to her time in the Law Pathway Student Association club and program, where she\u2019s seen how their support and opportunities make pursuing law simpler, something she hopes to bring to other majors and pathways.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tASG president candidate Diljot Singh Rai standing in front of the Fresno City College library after an interview April 27.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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To know what students are interested in, she plans to speak with them one-on-one on campus. Beyond gamenights, she feels student activities can host other types of activities chosen by students. She referred to possible alternatives such as movie nights, gallery nights and anything students come up with.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can we make you feel more connected with people around campus? I know we have events like pingpong and pool, but I feel like there\u2019s more that can be tailored towards everyone\u2019s interests. People need to voice their interests and tell us what they would like,\u201d Ganger said.<\/p>\n

She hopes students can take a look beyond grades and see that the connections made on campus help people get through their time in college.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know classes are important and grades are important, but I wouldn\u2019t be able to go through community college all alone without my friends and connections that I\u2019ve built, and with the student body you can also make the same connection with them,\u201d Ganger said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno City College is holding its 2026-2027 Associated Student Government (ASG) elections with voting starting April 28 through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-292520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}