REAL ticket to compete in IUSA elections

The REAL ticket is joining the IU Student Association elections race and is promising to bring realistic and tangible goals to the administration.

With the Hoosier ticket dropping out of the race, the REAL ticket is the fourth ticket competing in the IUSA elections.

REAL is an acronym for the ticket’s ideas of restructuring, education and living. All these goals are considered by the ticket to be attainable to implement into IU’s system.

“We’ve seen students make promises that never materialize,” junior Joey Schlafly, candidate for treasurer, said. “We are not just putting out goals that won’t be able to be reached.”

The idea of restructuring is to create a more unified IU campus where all student organizations can work as a cohesive unit.

“There is a divide between campus organizations, and since these organizations are student-run, why can’t we integrate them and give them one voice?” junior Sam Miller, presidential candidate, said. “If you have more student organizations together and more students leaders together, more ideas can come out of it.”

For education, the REAL ticket plans on eliminating the late fee for OneStart’s online scheduling’s drop/add feature because the executives see it as an “extent of tuition,” Miller said.

The ideas for the living platform are to make the campus more resourceful, safer, cleaner and more student-friendly. The candidates hope to accomplish this by not wasting food, extending transportation, increasing campus lighting and cleaning up the campus with the help of student volunteers.

Members of the REAL ticket pride themselves on having a tight-knit connection with all of the executives.

“Other tickets have pulled together their core executives from various places to give the ticket a diverse look,” Miller said. “Instead of working 24 hours a week together, we can work together 24 hours a day to accomplish our goals.”

Junior Nick Pavilonis, vice presidential candidate, said the REAL ticket executives will not have to waste time to get to know one another because they have already developed close relationships.

Members of the REAL ticket said their diversity will come from the officers, directors and members of Congress.

“Diversity will come through the people who are under us,” Miller said.

For more information on the REAL ticket, visit www.getrealiu.com.