[ Wednesday, March 17, 1999 ]
Been there, done that
USG candidates should have more realistic platforms
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The goals of the five tickets are simply unrealistic and not feasible for a one-year position. We've seen many of these ideas before, and they haven't worked then.
To give you a sampling of the recycled ideas prevalent in the campaigns this year, here are a few of the goals:
These are only two examples of the unobtainable goals, but all of the tickets have their own inappropriate platform goals. What's next, a proposal for hot tubs in the dorms?
What you, as the student body of Penn State, need to do is either run for office yourself or encourage the candidates to alter their platforms to fit your needs. In addition to the Silvia-Hornick and the Spicciati-McClure tickets, the candidates you can talk to are Dougie Bennett (junior-history and labor and industrial relations) and Ryan Knauss (junior-psychology); Desha Girod (junior-political science) and Garrett Fitzgerald (senior-environmental energy engineering); and Vivek Narayanan (junior-history) and Christopher Blackwell (senior-chemical engineering).
In the meantime, perhaps the current tickets can use some of these suggestions for improving their platforms:
Please, students, use this opportunity to make yourself an active participant on campus -- you can run for USG as a write-in. Or at least let the current tickets know how you feel about their platforms. It's your election.
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Updated Tuesday, March 16, 1999 10:32:18 PM -5
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