In the five years I have been a student at Iowa State, I don’t think I have seen anyone work as hard as Chandra Peterson. Through her initiatives in Campustown, environment policy and promotion of women in student government, she is a great candidate to become our next Government of the Student Body leader.

I have known Peterson for the past two years, and I am happy to say that I was on GSB when she joined. She worked for a fall semester in order to be able to afford coming to Iowa State. Her running mate, Jacob Wilson, is a transfer student, but also pours his heart and soul into working with and for students. These two people running as president and vice president are the strongest candidates any student could elect.

First of all, they actually have platform points — their Web site doesn’t list their sole reason for running as a “way to end their time at Iowa State on a high note.” Also, their goals are actually attainable. Having once been in their shoes, it was hard to accomplish everything in a one year time frame.

Fortunately, if they are elected, this will be their second year in leadership positions.

You may not be too familiar with GSB, or feel that what they spend their money on is foolish. But you have a chance, right now, to elect students into office who do truly spend every waking hour (outside of class, that is) working to make Iowa State and your student experience here the best it can possibly be. I urge you to do your research on their campaign platform points and to vote Peterson-Wilson on Monday or Tuesday.

Maggie Luttrell is the former GSB Vice President