As another election rolls around, most of us are ready for the candidates to start talking about their plans for their terms. Lofty goals and ambitious ideas are mainstays in any campaign platform. Usually voters are lured in by these promises, only to be disappointed by elected officials who abandon them to pursue the status quo of inefficiency.

If you want something other than the status quo, this year I invite you to vote for Angela Groh and Chris Deal to lead our student body. Groh and Deal are two individuals who will work and strive to reach not only their goals, but also the goals of their constituents. For many of you, it might be enough for me to just leave it at that, but for the rest who need some proof, we submit this for your consideration: TAP.

TAP, or Technology Access Partnerships, is a national non-profit organization that provides teens the skills, training and materials they need to teach workshops on computer skills to senior citizens in their home communities. Angela Groh and a partner created TAP as a local program while they were in high school. Not content to leave it at only that, the two worked to develop the program into the promising national endeavor it has become.

Though the rest of us have all had great ideas that develop into nothing more, Angela Groh has worked to turn her idea into reality, and she can relay this experience to serve students at Iowa State. The program just finished its pilot phase in 10 states and is being widely used in three. It is the perfect example of how these candidates are willing to work to improve student life at Iowa State, rather than dismiss it as a noble but unattainable ideal.

Angela Groh and Chris Deal are students who have invested themselves in improving life for students, faculty and Ames community members and are dedicated to working toward the success of Iowa State and its students.

Sarah Thede

Senior

Biological/Pre-Medical Illustration

Frances Collins

Senior

Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management