Third ticket sets agenda for IUSA bid

Junior Ryan Miracle said he couldn't resist using his own name for the IU Student Association ticket he leads as presidential candidate. The "Miracle" ticket announced its candidacy and platform Sunday.\nOther executive candidates on the "Miracle" ticket are junior Scott Hamlin for vice president for administration, junior Michael Blue for vice president for congress and senior Angie Cherry for treasurer.\nThey said they will strive to be the party of accessibility and student involvement, while addressing current issues and searching for new ideas.\n"We are concerned about what we can do for students right here, right now," Miracle said.\nSome of the ticket's goals are to move campus computers from low traffic areas to high traffic areas, to make online class registration available, to convert the Campus Access card to a campus "debit" card and to install clocks at all campus bus stops. The ticket also said it wants to provide more money to support student groups.\nThe candidates said they will address some of the issues facing the current student government. The ticket will not support a universal bus plan, Miracle said, because the plan would create more overcrowding and late buses. Cherry said some students are being charged twice -- for parking and for riding into campus.\nAlthough Hamlin said the ticket's priority would be its own initiatives, he said the ticket supports the current IUSA administration. As part of a new IUSA administration, the "Miracle" ticket would take current proposals to the next level, Hamlin said.\n"You don't want to tear down something completely every time a new administration comes in," he said.\nIn addition to building on past achievements, Miracle said accessibility is one of his main goals. He said he wants students and IUSA officers to share casual relationships -- for students to be able to walk into the IUSA office at any time, for any reason.\n"Our administration and our ticket will be the most accessible student government in the history of IU student government," Miracle said.\n"There are times when student governments feel distant", said Cullen Bollinger, candidate for College of Arts and Sciences representative.\n"Whether you're paying or your parents are paying, that tuition buys you a voice," he said.\nThe "Miracle" ticket members said they will listen.