It’s that time of year again.

Starting Monday, the Iowa State student body will be asked to choose a new leader for our student government.

This leader will run an organization that allocates more than $1 million of student fees each year.

This individual will be called upon to act as the representative voice of all ISU students.

This person must have the strength and ability to fight for student rights.

Basically, we need to find someone who is willing to devote one year of his or her life to work solely for us.

Following a long-established Iowa State Daily tradition, the editorial board has debated, argued and finally come to a decision regarding who is the best candidate.

It wasn’t easy. There are three very capable and qualified students running for the position of GSB president. And we agonized over our endorsement for some time.

We thought about Chris Wisher, junior in finance, who impressed us with his ideas for improving services that directly affect students.

Increasing Cy-Ride routes, improving on-campus parking and requiring English proficiency tests for all professors and teaching assistants were just a few of his many goals.

We also thought about three-year GSB veteran John Hamilton.

Hamilton, senior in marketing, has well-thought, impressive ideas, including improving the representation of students on GSB, implementing a professor evaluation system and creating a multi-cultural center for students of all backgrounds.

Hamilton’s experience and passion for student government would make him a capable and dedicated GSB president.

However, there is one candidate who seems to stand above the rest — Bryan Burkhardt, sophomore in computer engineering.

Burkhardt and his running mate, Jamal White, clearly have what it takes to run a student government.

Both are dedicated, intelligent students willing to work hard. They have GSB experience, and they have held roles in other campus organizations.

Their ideas to work with the goals of the current GSB administration, to implement community outreach projects, to develop plans for a multi-cultural center and to implement professor evaluations in the middle of the semester are what it takes to successfully run the campus.

We’ve made our choice.

Now you make yours.