Interview with Joseph Elisar
What is your name? Joey Elisar
Year? Sophomore
Age? 20 years old
What high school did you go to? Bexley High School
What’s your favorite sports team? Cleveland Indians
Favorite color? green
How do you like your eggs? Scrambled
How do you like your steak? Medium
Why did you choose Ohio State? It is a Big school and was the cheapest
Has it met your expectations so far? Yes, In fact he was blown away. The diversity and types of people are really great. Joey didn’t know people like these existed, everyone is so nice
Major? Why? History, He enjoyed the subject the most in high school.
What do you want to be when you grow up? He isn’t sure yet.
How do you think Osu will get you there? He has learned great social skills which is important in college and in a job atmosphere.
Why did you choose to be a part of PSL? His mom wanted Joey to do scholars. Plus, he also likes politic. Also, smith steel has air conditioning.
Favorite part about PSL? Meeting the people and the floor was really close.
Why did you choose to be a PSL mentor? To help people in their first year experience.
What have you learned so far as a mentor? That freshman can struggle in ways that he didn’t.
Will you be a member/mentor for the rest of college? Yes for sure!!
How will what you learned as a member for PSL help you with the rest of your life? Joey has learned to be more tolerate with people views in the future, even if they have different ideas from his own.
Would you recommend being in PSL? Definitely, it is a really cool experience and adds to one’s freshman year.
Are you involved in any other student orgs? Student radio, Parks and rec club
Any student orgs you would recommend? Student radio because it is really fun and the people that are in it are really cool.
Anything first years should know coming to OSU? Time management is key.
Any college advice?
Get involved, join organizations, it makes the college experience worthwhile.

Federalist Paper Question #3

Any person that is considered a United States citizen should have the right to have their voice heard through their right to vote. Solely having voting abilities is not enough to ensure that equality and justice are guaranteed for all citizens, but the government needs to also ensure that each vote is worth the exact same as every other vote anywhere else by anyone else in the United States- that each vote does not unfairly hurt or help a specific candidate or political party during elections.

Currently, Puerto Ricans votes for a resident commissioner that represents the island’s interests in Washington, D.C. However, the commissioner is not a voting member of Congress, therefore, they do not have fair representation- their vote is not equal.

I believe there are ways to improve Congressional apportionment in the House to make it more fair, but I do not believe that there will be a completely perfect apportionment. One side will always believe the opposing party has an advantage and the other side will try to maintain that advantage. And even though a “bipartisan” group may attempt to redistrict without any bias, one side will never be pleased.

One possible way to rid improve current Congressional apportionment in the House would be to create an algorithm that fairly and unbiasedly designates a proportionate number of representatives to each state, ideally. This algorithm could take into account population, which political party they typically identify with, etc.

By designating the appropriate number of representatives to each state, territory, county, etc. each vote will be equally represented and heard.