The Advocate Vol. 49 Issue 5 – Oct 18, 2013

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October 18, 2013

Halloween bonanza Creeping out

Fall colors fill campus

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Crisp autumn weather and brilliant fall colors have brightened the Mt. Hood campus this week.

ASG president shares her inspiration by Katelyn Hilsenbeck

having the support system and the fellow student leaders... I wouldn’t be here today,” she said. “I’m very blessed that I got hooked in.” Aguon, 20, became a single mom after Aubrey’s father, Robert, a military man and “the love of my life,” was killed in a traffic accident caused by a drunken driver. “Being a teen parent, and then the loss of my partner, has really put a huge wedge in what I thought I would be doing in the future,” she said. “But, I think it has ultimately put me on a better path. It’s been really hard, but it’s definitely pushed me to be a bigger person for (Aubrey).”

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SG President Laura Aguon is driven by something she rarely shares: She is the single mother of soon-to-be twoyear-old Aubrey, her daughter. “It’s all sacrifice now so it’s better in the future,” said Aguon, elected by her fellow MHCC students in May. She has rerouted her life since she learned of her pregnancy. She had been accepted into the Integrated Media graphic design program at Mt. Hood, but withdrew due to her new time commitment. The Gresham High School graduate began to take online classes and got plugged into MHCC with ASG. She served as ASG director of communications, using graphic design skills she picked up at the MHCC-affiliated Center for Advanced Learning.

“It totally tied in,” Aguon said. By the following year, she was named ASG director of state and federal affairs. “I definitely can attribute my continued education to student government, because if it wasn’t for being a student leader here and

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