Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series profiling the candidates for the Government of the Student Body executive offices.

Shawn Faurote and Vicky Lio hope to increase the effectiveness of the Government of the Student Body through active communication if elected as GSB president and vice president.

Faurote, the candidate for president, has served on the GSB senate for almost a year, has been president of the ISU Mock Trial Club for two years and has been a committee member of the Ames Transit Board for a year.

Lio, vice-presidential candidate, has been involved with student government since her middle school years and now serves on the planning committee for ISCORE, or the Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity. She has also taken two leadership classes at Iowa State and served on the executive boards of the Golden Key International Honor Society and Union Drive Association. Lio is also a Daily staff writer.

The executive candidates said they hope increasing communication will solve many of the issues being addressed in the GSB administration.

Lio said she and Faurote will actively seek students to give them information, instead of providing information to those who seek it.

Through an “exchange of information,” students’ issues will be addressed, Faurote said.

On the university level, Faurote said he and Lio will personally work with students, student groups and administration to communicate opinions on items affecting the campus population.

The student liaison to the Ames City Council will provide an opportunity for GSB to communicate the specific needs of students to the city, he said.

Addressing diversity on the ISU campus is something Lio said is important to her slate. Problems can be fixed by sharing, understanding and coming to respect diversity. Instead of discussing the problem of vandalism targeted at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons, the problem triggering the events needs to be discussed, she said.

The candidates also hope to establish a multicultural center on campus, which would be a refuge and resource for students. The proposed center would provide lectures, programs and discussion facilitators, Lio said.

Faurote and Lio said they believe it is important for students to give back to the community they live in, Faurote said.

“[As residents, students] need to be responsible and serve the space they occupy,” he said.

Community service can be improved through cleaning up campus, recycling and disposing of waste properly, Faurote said.

Increasing student awareness of events within the community is another way to improve student service, Lio said.

The Story County Sexual Assault Response Team, the Boys and Girls Club and other Ames-area organizations have opportunities in which students can participate, she said.

“A lot of things can be accomplished if the lines of communication are open,” Lio said.