Students voting in today’s Student Government run-off election will be participating in one of the largest, though relatively mildest, SG campaigns in recent memory.Stuart Watkins and Martina Scheuermann, presidential and vice presidential candidates for the More ’09 campaign, had the largest percentage of votes between the five separate tickets with 35.21 percent of the vote in last Tuesday’s general election. Jeffrey Noel and Ryan Ginn, the former presidential and vice presidential candidates from the Make it Reign campaign, also threw their individual support behind the leaders of the More ’09 campaign earlier this week.Though the members of the former Make it Reign campaign are supporting Watkins and Scheuermann, they said they did not want to tell their supporters to vote for the More ‘09 campaign.”If I can use the fact that I ran to get more More votes, I will,” Noel said. “But I’m not going to tell anyone how to vote.”Noel said he did not believe the Next Level campaign was practicing what it preaches when it comes to environmental sustainability on campus. He said it was hypocritical of the campaign to plan for a paperless campus, yet still print thousands of push cards.Ginn said he chose to support More ‘09 because he felt they were the better ticket running on a more feasible platform.According to Watkins, their platform has been growing since they began campaigning. More ‘09 has made environmental sustainability on campus one of its most important issues during the campaign season. Watkins said he plans to approach facility services and LSU Dining regarding his plan to increase composting on campus. By using leftover meals and excess food, he said the University can continue working toward “going green.”Denise Scribner, manager of facility services and campus sustainability, said the University has been working to increase composting on campus for several months. She said the plan was simply not yet campus wide.To make such a plan effective, Scribner said there would first have to be talks with the planning department about which land could be set aside for composting and where the resources would come from. She added there would need to be an educational component added to any composting program to inform students.Scribner also commented on Watkins’ call to condense night and intersession classes into fewer buildings in order to save energy, saying it could be done after the right studies were conducted and classes rearranged. But she said it may take more time than they realize.”Those are really huge programs, and they might not even be implemented in the next year,” Scribner said.Scribner met with Watkins and Scheuermann in February to discuss their stance on campus sustainability. She said they not only had good ideas, but a passion for “greening” campus.Scheuermann said her campaign is also concerned with campus safety and plans to add more security cameras in poorly lit areas around campus, especially in residence hall parking lots.Though this kind of equipment can cost between $500 and $5,000 depending on the model of the camera and installment requirements, Watkins said he would not compromise because of price.”Even though the University is facing budget cuts, as student leaders we’re going to do whatever we can to ensure students’ safety,” Watkins said.The More ‘09 push card, like their rival ticket, suggests restructuring a bus route which would pass through campus during the day.Watkins said there is currently no easy way to travel through campus, but the problem that could be solved by using something the University already has.Gary Graham, director of the Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation, said this plan was not a reasonable suggestion. He said other transportation plans the More ‘09 campaign has suggested, such as a night route to Tiger Land, would have to wait until there was a definite plan formed about the new bus system.—-Contact Adam Duvernay at [email protected]