By Kelsey Ackerman
The three tickets are Ben Solis running for president and Olin Grant Parker for vice president, Adam Doyno running for president alongside his vice president Sammi Rozakis and Dave Laveille presidential candidate with Kathleen Hunker running as vice president.
SGA has not been running smoothly this past year with “meetings solely based on the impeachment of one senator and not being focused on the students,” Parker said. Each of the candidates has made “pretty promises,” Solis said, about what is going to change next year.
Solis and Parker’s main goals are to, “reform the internal structure of the University to make it work more efficiently.” They said there is no sense of community now with students.
“We must present ourselves as an organization for the student body,” Solis said. “We want SGA to be proud, we want to be in the student body, not of the student body.”
Doyno and Rozakis said they want to start better polling of the student body.
“We want to poll students at the end of every semester to better gauge them,” Doyno said. Their goals also consist of reestablishing commuter involvement with the clubs and activities on campus.
“We want to make Memorial, Breslin and C.V. Starr places where students and commuters can gather,” Doyno said.
Rozakis went on to talk about parking and safety on campus.
“At the University of Delaware you can turn around at night and see three blue lights, here it took us 10 minutes to find one,” she said.
Laveille, who arrived late, said he directly wants to change student approval. Hunker said their main goals consist of interacting with the students, clubs, administration and members of SGA.
Hunker also talked about safety on campus and how she agreed with Rozakis, but said before we get more blue lights on campus we need to worry about fixing the ones that we have.
“I have to press the button for 30 seconds before I talk to a public safety officer,” she said.
When asked what each ticket felt is their responsibility toward the students each took a somewhat different approach, Solis and Parker talking about religious holidays at the University, minority representation, and saving the students money.
Doyno and Rozakis spoke about catering to the students needs and finding out more of who they are. And Laveille and Hunker talked about making SGA feel more welcoming to students, and making it known what the University has to offer.
When asked what they would do differently to change the overall tone next year in SGA each of the three tickets spoke about how “brutal words” had been exchanged and how, “we need to keep a steady decorum, and focus on courtesy and respect,” said Hunker.
“The best way to get people to respect each other is to lead by example,” Laveille said.
SGA expects voter turnout will exceed last year, breaking 1,000.

President and vice president candidates spoke to University students Wednesday on what they hope to accomplish if elected.

(Harry Tanielyan/The Chronicle)