Candidates for the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) executive office participated in the third and final debate last night.

The candidates had the opportunity to address each other during this debate, and many of them took the opportunity to directly address each other in addition to discussing each ticket's platform.

In what was one of the most heated exchanges between two presidential candidates, Gavin Keirans asked Daniel Hadas why he had served as president of the Model United Nations club. Keirans said the Model UN club didn't "provide service" to students.

Hadas replied, "To say anything bad about another organization shows your type of leadership." He also said the club provides service to students by letting them learn about international politics.

Keirans also questioned Ricardo Torres about his position as Undergraduate Student Government Academic Assembly chairman, saying that the assembly had been "stripped of all power" during Torres' tenure.

Torres said Keirans was mistaken, saying the assembly continued functioning and "got stuff done" even after USG dissolved. The assembly members that served as student faculty senators in the University Faculty Senate, including Torres and his running mate Mike Anderson, continued to serve as well, Torres said.

Hillary Lewis and her running mate, Frank Keller, were both members of UPUA this year. They each answered questions about what they had done so far.

Presidential candidate John Gremminger questioned Lewis and Keller specifically whether they had confronted current president Jay Chamberlin on his "weak leadership."

Lewis said she had "approached him on several issues" and referenced an incident during a meeting in which she encouraged Chamberlin to keep "his own opinions separate from that of the association."

A difference in opinion was also obvious when presidential candidate Peter Johnson and his running mate, Chris Lenn, questioned Gremminger about diversity on campus.

Gremminger responded, "UPUA is a political organization, and those are social issues."

Lenn said UPUA has a responsibility to foster diversity on campus, but time ran out on that round of questions before Lenn could elaborate.

This debate differed from the prior two by having three judges decide a winner for each round of debate. There was also a multiple choice section on parliamentary procedure and university trivia, but each candidate earned roughly the same amount of points and many of the questions were glossed over.

Torres and Anderson won the debate by a wide margin based on the judges' evaluations, garnering 65 points. The other candidates received between 41 and 49 points, except Keirans and his running mate, Mike Wallace, who received 19 points.

Head election commissioner Frank Criscione; former president of Association of Residence Hall Students Administrative Vice President Jacob Dixon; and Council of Commonwealth Student Governments Vice President George Khoury were the three judges. Criscione said the verdict was based on a presentation of "concrete disputes," each ticket's speaking ability and a balance of speaking between the presidential and vice presidential candidates, though that criterion was suspended for Hadas and Gremminger, since their running mates were not present.

Criscione said Keirans and Wallace scored low mostly because Wallace participated minimally.