The three slates running for Government of the Student Body president and vice president debated Thursday afternoon in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union for the final time before next week’s elections.

The executive candidates include Matt Craft and Garrett Toay, Ben Studenski and Chris Robert, and Justin Hattan and Jeremy Davis.

Studenski said he and Robert would like to see a lot of changes in GSB.

“We are not happy with the current status quo,” Studenski said. “We want to make the GSB serve students better. One of the ways that we want to do that is we want to see student fee money go for student organizations. GSB wastes a lot of money, and we want that to stop.”

If elected, Craft said he and Toay will strive to be more accessible to students.

“You are going to see us going to more constituency council meetings and meeting with more of the student organizations,” Craft said. “We want to make more opportunities for students to get ahold of us.”

Robert said it is important to get students more involved through the GSB Web site.

“The GSB Web page is currently horribly outdated,” he said. “There’s a list of senators from last semester on it and not a current list of new GSB senators this semester.”

Specialty seats also were addressed by the candidates.

Studenski said he and Robert believe specialty seats are unfair.

“Specialty seats discriminate against students based on factors such as sex, age, race and etc., which are factors that we are not supposed to use to discriminate against people as a university,” he said. “I don’t believe in segregating students, and that’s what specialty seats do.”

Craft said he and Toay are in favor of keeping specialty seats in the senate.

“We believe that they give those students a chance to have a voice,” he said.

Hattan said he and Davis also support specialty seats.

“The students who represent minority students on the senate are among the most dedicated and loyal senators,” he said. “Their positions are an asset to the senate.”

Hattan said he and Davis want to continue to implement some of the ideas of current GSB President Bryan Burkhardt and Vice President Jamal White.

“In the past year, Bryan and Jamal have made great strides in seeking out student opinion,” Hattan said. “On some of the specific issues such as campus lighting, textbook exchange and teacher evaluations, we want to pick up where Bryan and Jamal left off.”

Davis said they also want to address student involvement on campus.

“We want to have students look back at GSB and experience change in the campus in a good way,” he said. “We believe that can be done through hard work, sweat and more hard work. We are here for the students and not for ourselves.”