Chandra Peterson and Jacob Wilson want to represent ISU students and become the president and vice president of Government of the Student Body. However, they don’t seem to propose any real changes, despite the fiscal problems facing our school.

On their Web site they propose to continue the efforts of lobbying state legislators, despite the fact that this has not produced any recent changes.

Every year, Student Day at the Capitol is after proposed bills have to be submitted by legislators, meaning that the event is a big photo opportunity but doesn’t change any proposed legislation to increase funding.

They are campaigning to eliminate new fees and costs to students, however, this is a completely unrealistic goal. Tuition will always inflate. In reality, making hard decisions and recommendations to the university about how to eliminate the spending that occurs will be what slows the inflation and makes the amount paid to the school more effective, and less wasteful.

The team talks a lot on their Web site about saving money and lessening the burden of the cost of our education at Iowa State, however, they plan on funneling a lot of resources to multicultural groups and LGBTA. I respect those groups, however, their goals are to make these groups larger and to give them more funding. They aren’t talking about creating more support or funding for any other groups on campus. To come out and only offer support to multicultural and LGBTA groups sounds a bit racist and prejudiced to me, a white heterosexual.

Since both Peterson and Wilson boast their GSB services as credentials to lead, I am curious as to what their views on the cross in the Memorial Union were. The amount of time spent on deciding whether to move it or not, only to find out that GSB didn’t have the authority to move it, seems like a very large misuse of time.

I write this letter in hopes that it will shed light on the issues they are campaigning on. As an Iowa State student I believe we need leadership that will effectively ease the burden of cost and provide equal support to all student groups.

Jason Covey is senior in political science.