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Vincent Peter Mechanical engineering sophomore

Running for: vice president of external affairs

Interview edited for length with the consent of the candidate:

I’m from the island of Dominica. I am currently a RA. I am also a senator for the Caribbean Student Organization. One of the clubs that I’m involved with in the community is Cafe Con Leche, better known as the road to college. Yeah, but I'm a very outgoing, very involved student.My biggest goal If I'm elected is inclusion. I really think that it's important to make sure that everyone is not just being heard, but everyone is participating, you know. And I think it is so important that when we come here, that we can be a part of what's going on and not feel left out. There are conditions and there are things that international students face that the rest of the student body may not know about, or don't know. So I just want to help liaise that information, those problems from the students who may feel left or may not necessarily have a voice and just let them know that, hey, we're in a position now where we can make something happen.

Samantha Wilson Accounting and management information systems sophomore

Running for: vice president of external affairs

Iam a non-traditional student with a lot of life experience that can be beneficial to students looking to get into the job market and survive in the real world. Communication and community between non-traditional students, that can teach a lot, like I said, to the traditional students and in between the different colleges. So it's not so much a team base as it is an MSU base, okay? Mostly communication and making sure that the representation for the student government association is actually indicative of the student body population. There's so many different students on campus and the student government senate should mirror the community.

Joseph Arthur

Biology and chemistry junior

Running for: vice president of internal affairs

Well, I think foremost, people should know I love MSU. I was only meant to stay for my freshman year, but I fell in love with the campus. I fell in love with the people, the friends I made, the family I made, it's a great campus. We have a great campus here, and all I want to do is help the students and be a resource for them.

The biggest thing I want to accomplish is I want to make MSU a campus truly for the students. I believe that in the past it hasn't really been student focused. Administration, upper admin hasn't really done stuff. They aren’t very student focused, it's been very unilateral. Little students are involved in the decision making and I think that's wrong. I think decisions for students should be made by students.And that's the biggest thing I want to accomplish for this position, I want to help students. I want to help student organizations. I want to be able to elevate the student body so they can have a better experience and MSU.