Two weeks ago, we interviewed both Government of the Student Body presidential and vice-presidential candidates, and yesterday we commented on the Swanson-Bartholomew platform. While their platform had many good points to consider, the Knight-Brown platform also presents a strong ticket.

We found Jared Knight and Katie Brown’s goals to be practical, their experience to be an asset and their ideas within GSB’s scope. However, as with the Swanson and Bartholomew platform, there are implications you should consider.

One issue Knight and Brown pressed was their goal to improve the value and experience of Iowa State for students. It’s overreaching, but an issue worth looking at. One policy they’ve worked toward, as an element of student experience, was the enforcement of the Dead Week policy.

Currently, the policy suggests guidelines rather than enforced policies. Knight and Brown would like to place the Dead Week policy on every syllabus and reword its language to make it mandatory.

This might be beneficial to you, as a student, but is it a problem we need GSB to confront? Depending on your major and course load, the policy may hinder your ability to take final exams during Dead Week rather than during Finals Week. It’s an issue to consider, weigh and measure with other problems that affect the ISU population.

Perhaps one of the greatest assets to the Knight and Brown platform is  Knight’s experience. This does not imply a lack of experience on the part of Jake Swanson and David Bartholomew, but Knight has already served on the GSB Cabinet as vice president. We feel this experience gives both him and Brown valuable knowledge of the system.

Not all students weigh experience the same, but all students can appreciate the Knight and Brown idea of creating an online rating system for ISU professors. Knight and Brown have proposed that GSB create an ISU database containing student evaluations, done online, concerning all the professors on campus.

We believe this would allow students to make smarter decisions with more information available to them. The scope of this project, like all the recommendations from the Knight and Brown platform, are within the scope of GSB.

All the changes Knight and Brown want to affect are firmly within GSB’s purview. Not that attempts to expand GSB aren’t appreciated, but working within the system is much more successful for the student body.

The Knight and Brown ticket has experience, but lacks detail. They had key initiatives, and as a whole we found them more practical but less extensive than Swanson and Bartholomew. These are all issues that students should take time to consider, contact the candidates and develop an opinion. GSB is your government; make your voices heard on Monday and Tuesday.