Kirkwood ticket hopes to be more in touch with students

A third party has entered the horizon for the upcoming IU Student Association elections. Now challenging the Synergy and Steel parties for the candidacy is the Kirkwood ticket.\nKirkwood ticket candidates for executive council include: Bill Gray, president; Judd Arnold, Vice President of Adminstration; Vanessa Sea, Vice President of Congress; and Blair Greenberg, Treasurer.\nMembers of the Kirkwood ticket said they are quite capable of election day victory. In fact, the party is convinced that they are closer in touch to the student body, campaigning under the motto, "Work hard, play hard."\n"The other candidates are all about politics, and I am all about being a college kid," Gray said.\nThe primary plank on the Kirkwood platform is the revival of what they call "the old IU atmosphere."\n"The Kirkwood party was founded on the ideals of the old IU, where a person could walk up any street on a Thursday night and find a rocking party," Arnold said. "Where that same person would go to an IU game on Sunday, then go to the library on Sunday night and get their work done."\nAs their motto states, the Kirkwood candidates also look to work hard. One of the projects Arnold and Greenberg are currently looking into is a plan to assure students of paying the same tuition for the duration of their IU career.\n"You come into the school as a freshman and your tuition doesn't increase after that," Greenberg said. "We'd really love to see that at IU."\nGreenberg said that the policy is currently in place at several schools across the country, including St. Olaf's College in Minnesota. \nArnold and Greenberg are also looking at the student budget for places where cuts can be made to free up money for their tuition plan. They are also optimistic despite the impending budget crisis in the state legislature, saying that the state is "very pro-education."\nIn addition to their plans, members of the Kirkwood party feel that their personalities set them apart from candidates from other parties. Kirkwood candidates stated that "unlike the others," they have candidates from "all walks of life."\n"The other parties really don't understand what college is about," Gray said. "There is no doubt that college is about learning in the classroom, but it is also about the lessons you learn at fraternity parties, the bars, and IU basketball games"