Editor’s Note: This is the third of a four-part series to inform the students of Iowa State about the candidates in the Government of the Student Body executive race.

Two ISU students teaming up to make a run for the Government of the Student Body executive offices are basing their platform on a “paradigm shift — taking it to another level.”

Wendell Mosby, senior in apparel merchandising, design and production from Chicago Heights, Ill., said his aim as a potential GSB president is to build upon what GSB already has established.

“There is so much in place already, but you can always do more,” he said. “It’s continually improving what’s already in place.”

Mosby and his running mate, Luke Howell, junior in political science from Coal Valley, Ill., said they are familiar with the issues, but their campaign is not centered around the issues.

“We know the issues that concern students,” Howell said. “We know that there are a lot of hot topics and a lot of issues. We have addressed those, and we do have plans.

“But honestly, we look at those issues, and we look at 1,500 people voting last year, and mobilizing the students is our most important thing,” he continued. “We want to get out to the students and let them know we’re their connection.”

Mosby said to mobilize the students and increase interest in student government, GSB needs effective leadership.

“Visibility is the key,” he said. “However, what we want to address has to do with effective leadership. Not just someone who knows the bylaws and [parliamentary procedure], but an effective leader who can mobilize and empower other students to stand up for what they believe in by just being open and honest.”

Mosby and Howell have a list of leadership experience to back their campaign. Howell, resident assistant on Caine House in Larch Hall, has served on GSB committees and was the summer assistant in the GSB office. In addition, he has been a member of Sports Club Council and was the secretary for the Richardson Court Association student government.

Mosby, a former RA, has participated in several campus organizations and served three semesters as a Family and Consumer Sciences college senator on GSB. His resignation from senate at the beginning of this semester has raised some questions about his dedication to GSB.

“It’s the approach, the angle,” he said. “In the capacity of being a senator, what I wanted to get done for the students wasn’t getting done as consistently as I thought it would get done. If I am GSB president, I would have the authority to exercise the voice of the students, and they would get heard.”

Mosby and Howell said they would bring a sense of reality to the executive GSB offices.

“I think we’re the most real candidates,” Howell said. “We’re not going to go out there, and we’re not going to make false promises. We’re not going to appeal to an elite crowd of people who don’t represent Iowa State.”

The slate waited a week to start campaigning because Mosby and Howell said they are already visible on campus.

“We don’t have to go out there and spend all this money to persuade or convince people that we are the right people for this job,” Mosby said. “People know us already. We didn’t wait for when it was convenient for us to run for an elected office to go out and talk to people.”

In addition to visibility and reality, Howell said the duo would bring passion to the office.

“Anybody who knows Luke and Wendell knows we’re very, very passionate people,” he said. “We’re going to take professionalism; we’re going to take our experience; we’re going to take the voice of the students, and we’re going to communicate that voice with a passion.”

The combination of experience and ideas Mosby and Howell bring to the slate is a key to their platform, Mosby said.

“Based on merit, I would say we are the most complete, dynamic candidates running,” he said. “We are a good combination.”

Although their campaign is based on student outreach, the candidates have their own ideas about the current issues.

“We know that teacher evaluations are a concern,” Howell said. “We know students want to know the evaluations of teachers, but there’s only so much that should be done.”

Instead of posting teacher evaluations online, as other candidates have suggested, Howell said a panel of students to evaluate the evaluations would be a more fair alternative.

“If a teacher has potential to grow, especially new teachers, and his evaluation gets put online, it could doom his career, and that’s totally unfair,” he said. “A panel of students could hold the teachers accountable if they’re consistently bad and they don’t show any signs of growth.”

Mosby said the “paradigm shift” is intended to expand the good things of GSB.

“Who says we just have to give money away to the students?” he asked. “Why can’t we do other things? People have to realize that the world can be as big as you want it to be. To me, the world is huge.”