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elections. M B|j^[j||i|^k v^ :.-?l^te k$jip!$ ": ?%& . Mm80S^M ; < , u . MStSBKttKMIHHHHHI * * - Kvv " BBF' WKw?^ - b39| MffffP * IMKs! npyj n ! - ''Wk* WSsBlM SB mmmmmmm Steve Keeler Steve Keeler's philosophy of student government is "spend a little money and get as much as possible." He says he has not been happy with how the money has been spent in the past and would strive for f: :-i ucuci niictiiciai control. Keeler said he is not spending more than (50 on his campaign and that this is an example of how to cut down on waste. "SG can be worthwhile," he said, "if the 1 money that belongs to the students is spent more wisely, and if the needs of the students are responded to more effectively." PAmmiininnfiAn So c v/\/iiiiiiuiiivaii\;ii 10 uaiu tiling Keeler feels is important. "At least once every two weeks, I would, and I would hope that whoever is elected would, hold "With more thar .1 the student bod only 200 votes ' (fall 1976) elect ~Tl ^ mmiBfuw n?iuuiu_u > *v m : laKH roundtables," Keeler described roundtables as being discussion groups. "Aside from public speaking, the president should meet the students and see what they're concerned about," he said. "SG is still small enough to have a referendum concept and an open telephone line. The president should be available anytime to take care oi problems," Keeler said. Keeler supports at least a partial closing of Green Street. "Rome wasn't built in a day, and saying the issue is dead is quitting," he said. A possible proposal for Green Green Street would be to close it from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. so "students could get around campus without worrying about traffic. An accounting senior, Keeler is in his second year at USC. j > 1 two-thirds of y eligible to vote, lA/AfO roe4 in v* wi v wab iib ions." le Gamecock /N _X A < / % * / v^ct. iy/o j f Douff Kotti u "Most students think that the student government is a joke and that senate is a Mickey Mouse Club," Doug Kotti, a rising senior political science major who is rnnning for president, says. Kotti, who has been in the senate for a vear. said that if elected he would try to provide for more student input into student government. "It is unfortunate that students don't try to communicate with SG. It is supposed to be a means for students to expresstheir ideas and complaints, and SG is supposed to lobby for the students to get things done for them." To provide for more student input, Kotti plans to hold periodic open meetings between students and government leaders for them to exchange ideas. Kotti's program for a more \ effective student government includes setting up a theft and damage-insurance plan for the residence halls and maintaining a summer storage warehouse for the resident's belongings during the summer. "Most universities that I know have some sort of arrangements for the summer, and it has been proposed several times here, but iiuuuug uaa uccil UUUC aiXJUl it." A V > A ? EW 1 ). ^Ht I Denise Painter j Denise Painter sees the SG vie-president as having "one ii? i iuui hi uie legislative Drancn and one foot in the administration." She thinks the SG vice-president should serve as a liaison between the two. "All I can do as vicepresident is to open the lines of communication more," she said. Painter also wants to open the lines of communication between SG and the student body. She said she wants to take "positive steps to make students feel like they are a part of SG." "Presently, we have a very bad image," Painter said referring to SG. "The students set SG as an elitist group they v>v> iu u<m iu, oiuueiiu> don't care that much and if students had more input," this might be changed, she said. "Senators and officers should talk to students, and students should come to the office and talk." Painter said she doesn't want to go in and change SG. She wants to "nut it hark where it should be. If we're not united, we'll never get anything through to the administration, they can dismiss us more easily if we're fragmented," she said. As vice-president, she would work for "cooperation and communication," within the SG and with the students.