Issue date: 5/15/09 Section: Features

Media Credit: Molly Neabeack Molly NEABEACK/EXPRESS New ASLPC President, Masi Quorayshi, dresses in professional attire as he heads down the halls of LPC in order to make his way to work on Thursday May 7, 2009.

With a new school year, comes a new student government and fresh ideas. New ASLPC president Masi Quorayshi is a full time student pulling 24 units at the college while he works at Nordstrom in Pleasanton and partakes in student government. Quorayshi just turned 19 years old in March and started attending LPC in the fall semester of 2008. He is a psychology major and wishes to study law for graduate school. "I want to transfer to either UC Berkeley or Stanford," Quarayshi said.

After enrolling as a student at LPC, he went out for the Student Government. Quorayshi started as a senator and then went on to collect his next 150 signatures that are required to become a member of ASLPC.

Since the moment he was part of the student government he wanted to be president and even told people so.

"In middle school I was always the quiet kid," Quorayshi said. "I had no friends but always felt that I could do better. I changed and everything had to be a leadership position, not necessarily in control, but more to have a say in things. I felt that as much as we did things OK, it could always be improved. I felt I was the person that could initiate this improvement."

From middle school through high school Quorayshi was never able to hold a presidential position in the student leadership programs on campus because he moved around a lot and attended many different schools.

Now that Quorayshi is at a stable school he wishes to accomplish many things on campus. Bethany Wallace and Tiffany Breger have worked hard with other ASLPC members, including him, to create a textbook rental program. He hopes the program will be successful and also wishes to increase databases accessible to students. "Ultimately the access to knowledge a college has defines the college," Quorayshi said.

He would like to continue working on the textbook rental program as well as continue holding all the usual events on campus like rush Wednesdays and the tutoring event that happens every semester before finals week. He would also like to add more events that benefit the students.

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