It is my pleasure to announce the ISU United Residents Off-Campus Council (UROC) endorsement of Senators Dan Rediske and Zach Bauer for their campaign to become the next Government of the Student Body (GSB) president and vice president.

Convening on Feb. 6 with full attendance of the council, all members of the council voted unanimously to endorse the Rediske-Bauer campaign (www.rediskebauer.com), making UROC the first organizational endorsement of the 2013 GSB campaign. 

This conclusion was arrived at after carefully deliberating over the course of two weeks. Representing over 14,000 ISU students, making UROC the largest student constituency by far, the council is undivided in agreement that Rediske and Bauer are the kind of leaders ISU students need in the lead of GSB.

Dan Rediske and Zach Bauer easily have the strongest records of achievement in helping and advancing the interests of Iowa State students. Rediske has been an LAS senator since his freshman year, and has served on the GSB Finance Committee and CyRide Board of Trustees for several years. Zach has served students as an Inter-Residence Hall Association senator, the Senate Public Relations chair, and as an ISU Ambassador, the latter for which he took part in writing legislation for the Iowa legislature aimed at improving student life at the Regents’ universities.

The amount of bills both Dan and Zach have sent through GSB to help students is immeasurable. Time and time again they have demonstrated their sincere commitment to Iowa State, whether it be by funding the clubs that make an ISU student’s experience so rich, improving the transparency of GSB with the new outreach program, or working on projects like the new CyRide NextBus system. Cyclones will go a long way in finding other GSB senators as active as Dan Rediske and Zach Bauer are.

These reasons and many more too numerous to list here, combined with their stellar academics and sterling integrity and honesty, have made the decision for UROC to endorse the Rediske-Bauer campaign extraordinarily simple. 

We hope you will join us in supporting these two amazing and truly worthy students for GSB president and vice president.

Please vote for them at vote.iastate.edu on March 11 or 12.