Tuesday night, the 4 tickets met in Nicholson Hall to make their case to students on why they should be elected the next Student Body President.
Leading the Unite ticket is Kelsey Womack and Emma Miller. Their main goal is to ensure students feel included at LSU through diversity initiatives and resources to help first generation and out of state students.
“There are a lot of issues that we are all facing today currently that divide us,” Womack said. “We call our ticket Unite because all of these issues should be uniting us so we can present ourselves as a united front to be facing these issues head on.”
With the We’re All In ticket is Lavar Henderson and Abry Layrisson. The ticket wants to push for greater efficiency in student government through what they see as practical reforms. This includes improvements to accessibility around campus and enhancements to the game day experience.
“As an experienced member of student government, I’ve seen administrations come and go,” Henderson said. “The one constant that remains is the lack of efficiency. The We’re All In campaign is here because we want to give Student Government a new stereotype. The stereotype that we try too hard.”
On the Foret-Tatman Forward ticket is Alex Foret and Isabelle Tatman. The ticket did not shy away from discussing their removal and subsequent reinstatement on the ballot. They are pushing to make student government more accessible to students who are not actively involved in it.
“Do we want to be a Student Government that includes people, or kick them out before their name is on the ballot with fraudulent claims,” Foret said. “It’s time that we move forward, move LSU forward and we want to take a different approach.”
Finally with the Forward ticket are Hamood Qureshi and Page Gray. The ticket is seen as unserious by those in student government. The ticket’s registration paperwork makes promises to isolate students and ignore votes and requests “not accompanied by enormous sums of money.”
“The way that we measure our success is by getting people talking,” Qureshi said. “The way that we get people talking is by going for these big fish policies that people care about and will leave an impact on campus.”
Voting for the student government election begins Thursday at 7:30 am and will remain open until Friday at 4:30 pm. Voting will take place through Tigerlink.