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“With a new chancellor on campus, Morgan Mickey Hunter emphasized the opportunity for making immediate, impactful change and promised to be the leaders that students need.” See more of The Daily Beacon’s Editorial Endorsement on page 2. >>

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UT students face off in SGA debate Candidates discuss platforms, future of SGA Annie Tieu Asst. News Editor

Students packed into the Alumni Memorial Building to watch SGA president and vice president candidates face off, and the annual debate took place Thursday night, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. It opened with the runners for vice president: Kiersten Marsh, from the Banks-Marsh campaign, Mickey Curtis from the Morgan Mickey Hunter campaign and Emily Dickey from Unite UT. The debate was moderated by Eddie Roe, senior in College Scholars. During both debate rounds, SGA vice president and SGA president, the order in which the candidates spoke was switched throughout the debate The vice presidential candidates began by explaining why they decided to run for SGA vice president, beginning with Marsh and ending with Curtis and Dickey, respectively.

Marsh said her decision to run for SGA vice president came from her confidence in her abilities. “There is a divide on campus, and one of the things I pride myself on is compromise,” Marsh said. Curtis noticed that there was confusion within SGA Senate and also among students and SGA, which he wants to resolve and bring about cohesion. “It is my vow, my dedication, in this vice president position to make sure everyone in Senate understands what it means to advocate for the constituency … to actively listen,” Curtis said. Dickey said the goal of Unite UT is to serve the students and empower them. “An approachable and student-centric SGA can be a really uniting force on this campus,” Dickey said. “SGA walks alongside student … We help them.” The vice presidential candidates addressed issues over campus climate, the proposed intellectual diversity office and

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other diversity issues. Eventually, the vice presidents presented their closing statements. For her closing statement, Marsh focused on the BanksMarsh campaign slogan “LIT,” an acronym for leadership, integrity and teamwork. “We’re not going to get anywhere in SGA without leadership, integrity and teamwork,” Marsh said. “We’re trying to demonstrate, with this campaign and with the people that we’ve attracted to this campaign, what kind of leadership that we’re going to have in SGA next year.” Curtis ended with a statement on bringing empowerment, accessibility, accountability and cohesiveness to UT campus and student government. “The Morgan Mickey Hunter campaign is not just about the policy. It’s about the people … It’s about you, you as students, us as students,” Curtis said. “We want to create that personal relationship.” See SGA DEBATE on Page 3

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EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENT The Daily Beacon endorses Morgan Mickey Hunter Within the past year, the Office for Diversity and Inclusion was defunded, UT settled a large Title IX lawsuit, a new athletic director and chancellor were appointed and a new President of the United States was elected. Now the smoke has cleared and the waters have calmed, and UT students are faced with the question of what comes next. This is the question that this year’s SGA candidates needed to answer, and on Thursday night, April 6, they addressed their fellow students to discuss their campaign platforms. Discussion, however, was all that occurred. In sharp contrast to last year’s SGA election season, there were no solid arguments presented, and real debate among candidates was nonexistent. As a result, the choice between campaigns became one of personality instead of policy, as all the candidates’ platforms agreed.

After listening to each campaign, Morgan Mickey Hunter, consisting of Morgan Hartgrove, Michael “Mickey” Curtis and Hunter Jones as president, vice president and student services director, respectively, proved to be the most approachable, experienced and genuine group of candidates. The night started with the vice presidential debate in which both Curtis and Kiersten Marsh from the LIT campaign showed clear confidence in delivering their views. Both candidates gave eloquent answers and impressed us with their knowledge and preparedness for the topics discussed. However, Curtis showed more enthusiasm and passion in his explanations and desired policies. His extensive involvement in campus organizations outside of SGA showed that he is aware not only of the inner workings of student government but also of the greater needs of the campus community.

From fair treatment of facilities services and promoting diversity to the importance of orientation for first year students, Curtis spoke about policy from a personal standpoint, bringing in anecdotes about meeting a library worker, founding Brothers United for Excellence and serving as an orientation leader. While Emily Dickey from the Unite UT campaign agreed with Curtis and Marsh on most topics, she lacked the composure and professionalism of the other two campaigns. In the presidential candidate debate, the Morgan Mickey Hunter and LIT campaigns stole the spotlight again. Both Hartgrove and Beverly Banks, presidential candidate for the LIT campaign, gave well thought out and informed responses, but Hartgrove made a concerted effort to back up her policies with research and studies. When talking about Safe Zone

training, she mentioned the effects from the program fade after a short time period, so continuous training should be practiced. Training remained a theme for Hartgrove on each topic, including guns on campus and bystander intervention. Every campaign emphasized putting student opinion first, but Hartgrove’s dedication to this stood out from the rest. When asked about her beliefs on one of the night’s topics, Hartgrove responded that she would not act on her personal opinion and call it public service. Overall, none of the candidates answered the question of what comes next, but Morgan Mickey Hunter seemed to grasp the importance of finding an answer more than any other campaign. With a new chancellor on campus, Morgan Mickey Hunter emphasized the opportunity for making immediate, impactful change and promised to be the leaders that students need.

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SGA DEBATE continued from Page 1 Dickey closed with her own experience in SGA and Unite UT’s student-centric vision for campus. “As long as students feel comfortable enough to talk to SGA about what they like or what they don’t like, that’s a successful year for us,” Dickey said. After the vice presidential candidates’ closing statements, there was a fiveminute interval before the debate moved on to the presidential debates. The candidates for SGA president were independent runner Antonio Butler, Morgan Hartgrove from the Morgan Mickey Hunter campaign, Beverly Banks from Banks-Marsh and Phillip Newsom from Unite UT. Candidates began with their opening statements, starting from Butler, who explained why he decided to run for president as an independent. “I decided to run because I felt like I could bring something different to the SGA presidency seat that hasn’t been brought before,” Butler said. “My vision for SGA is to make it a more diverse, dynamic and inclusive SGA that not only touches the people inside SGA but all of

Friday, April 7, 2017 • The Daily Beacon the students outside of SGA.” Hartgrove said she ran because she felt there could be improvements done to SGA. “Through my involvement outside of SGA, I have seen the limits of what this organization is capable of and how much room this organization has to grow,” Hartgrove said. Banks said she decided to run for SGA president because of her love for student government. But, she also spoke on how she wanted to fix issues she saw, namely, the communication issues between SGA and students. “If you’ve seen me on campus, you know that I have usually two things that I’m wearing on my sleeves: one of them is a tripod for a camera and the other one is my heart for SGA,” Banks said. “I’m running for president because I want to fix the communication in the organization so it can change other people’s lives.” Newsom wanted to equalize SGA by adopting a horizontal leadership structure, both with SGA internally and with other student organizations. “It’s all of us on the same level, and that goes for campus as well. It’s not just student government up here aiding and helping everybody else. It’s student government on the same level,” Newsom

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“My vision for SGA is to make it a more diverse, dynamic and inclusive SGA that not only touches the people inside SGA but all of the students outside of SGA.” Antonio Butler, independent candidate for SGA presidential election said. After opening statements, the candidates were asked about campus carry policies, sexual assault and questions directed at them specifically. For the candidate’s closing statement, each candidate was given the opportunity to sum up their goals and what they hope to bring to SGA. “I’m not running just to get a title or get like a position or anything along those lines. I’m running to really change this campus,” Butler said. Banks expressed that, even if she was not elected, she would continue fighting for students. “Whether I’m elected in this position or not, I know I’m going to stay in SGA in some capacity — if they let me,” Banks said. “The point is that I’m never

going to stop fighting for these concerns for students, and the Banks-Marsh campaign is never going to stop fighting.” Newsom spoke on his campaign’s goal to unite campus. “We firmly believe that student government should be something that always unites our campus, that is never divisive,” Newsom said. Hartgrove promised to represent students. “When you go to vote, you vote for our names. You vote for who we are as people and who you know us to be,” Hartgrove said. “At the end of the day, I can promise you no one’s going to represent you like we will. I promise.” The debate ended at approximately 9:30 p.m. Formal campaigning and voting begins Monday, April 10.

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Candidates lit for UT, focused on integrity Alex Holcomb News Editor Beverly “Bev” Banks and Kiersten Marsh are running for SGA with a focus on being LIT for UT. “LIT” in this case standing for leadership, integrity and teamwork. Banks, junior in journalism and electronic media, is a senator for the College of Communication and Information. Marsh, sophomore in political science, is a senator for Sorority Village. They met while working on the “Challenge” campaign last year. After serving in SGA for three years and in the executive branch last year, Banks said she became frustrated with the issues—specifically the lack of communication—in the organization. “I love (SGA), and it’s great. There’s also a lot of problems, and a lot of them deal with the communication not only internally but externally within the organization. At that point, I thought a lot about either walking away or doing something about it, and so, obviously, I chose to do something about it,” Banks said. “That’s the reason I’m running

because I want our organization to better communicate with students on campus and other organizations so that we can come together and not be so separated by organizational lines.” Banks said a solution to one communication problem is to bring back SGA roundtables for students and SGA members to discuss what is happening in the organization. Traditionally, the SGA president and vice president are seniors when they hold their position. As a sophomore, Marsh’s ability to fulfill the position has been questioned, but Marsh said that her passion, combined with Beverly’s leadership, should put those worries to rest. “I’ve always wanted to be vice president and not anything else because of the passion I have developed for the legislative branch,” Marsh said. “I think Bev and I work incredibly well together. … If it was anybody else, I wouldn’t be running this year. I think that it would have been something I would have waited (until) next year, but I believe wholeheartedly in what Bev can do, and I believe that with her help, I can take on this role a year early.” Banks and Marsh said they believe that

Beverly Banks (left) and Kiersten Marsh (right) Laura Altawil • The Daily Beacon

the culture on campus is not welcoming to all ideas. If elected, Marsh said they plan to change the culture through communication and leadership. “My goal for next year, if we’re elected, is to start bringing about a campus culture change — to start bringing about that compromise that we don’t see on campus,” Marsh said. “That’s done through the communication ... and just creating a culture of

compromise starting from the top down and not only trying to be the leaders of SGA but being servant leaders.” The Tennessee legislature recently allotted funds to create an intellectual diversity office on campus, but Banks said the office is not the correct step to welcoming more ideas on campus. See BANKS MARSH on Page 8

Independent hopes to bring fresh perspective Bradi Musil Editor-in-Chief Speaking things into existence, Antonio Butler said, is his “thing.” Butler, a junior in supply chain management with a collateral in marketing and minor in leadership studies and the independent candidate for SGA president, said his decision to run for the executive slot came from his passion for UT and his ability to navigate and mediate between various campus groups. “I really care about this university,” Butler said. “I’m not just running to get a position or a title on my resume. I couldn’t care less about that. It’s really about changing the culture here on campus and really making this one UT, starting a revolution to make this a community filled with unity and positivity.” With Will Freeman—the 2015-2016 SGA president—as his freshman orientation leader, Butler said he has always kept his eye on SGA, never formally serving as a senator, but

holding spots on committees and playing the role of proxy at several senate meetings. His biggest campus involvement is through Multicultural Student Life, where Butler fills the role of vice president for the Multicultural Mentoring Program and last year served as the public relations chair. “I have a good, solid pulse on our campus,” Butler said, who is also a member of Minority Enhancement for UT, the Volunteer Team, Brothers United for Excellence, the Student Alumni Association, Ignite and Collegiate Black Christians. “I’ve worked with a plethora of different cultures, different people, different backgrounds, thoughts and mindsets, and I consider myself a connector. I can connect the pieces and figure out ways we can all come together and make the student voice really impactful.” Although his desire to lead SGA really materialized this semester, Butler said he’s wanted to run for president since his freshman year. As a mentee in the Multicultural Mentoring Program freshman year, Butler

Antonio Butler Matthew Young • The Daily Beacon

said he introduced himself at the first year students’ pageant saying, “I will be your next president.” “I always said—even as a freshman—that I wanted to run for president … But I truly decided coming into this semester around January. I prayed about it, thought about

it and realized I would regret not running because I feel like I’m very qualified to lead SGA and bring a different swagger and a different feel to the SGA presidency,” Butler said. See BUTLER on Page 8

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SGA candidates aim to serve the students Megan Patterson Managing Editor

Over the past two weeks, the Morgan Mickey Hunter SGA campaign has visited with 11 different student organizations across campus in an attempt to understand the needs of students. One of the campaign’s main platform goals is to “promote campus unity,” and vice presidential candidate Michael “Mickey” Curtis believes that actively reaching out to campus organizations and their leaders is one big way to achieve that goal. Curtis believes the SGA should focus on, “creating that time to say, ‘You’re special, you’re important, I want to hear what’s going on with you. Regardless of what else is happening let me hear what’s going on. Let’s be open, informal and have that conversation right there.’” In keeping with this informal approach, the campaign used the candidates first names to further their goal of approachability and inclusivity.

Morgan Hartgrove, a junior in College Scholars and current SGA senate chair; Curtis, a junior in nursing and current SGA senator; and Hunter Jones, a junior in animal science, are running for SGA president, vice president and student services director, respectively. Both Hartgrove and Curtis have been involved in SGA since their freshman year, when the pair met as part of the Traditions Committee, but Jones is a self-described “SGA outsider.” However, he has been anything but inactive during his time on campus, serving as current Interfraternity Council president and co-president of all campus events committee; a member of student alumni associates, Rocky Top Roundtable and Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity; and former National Chief of the Order of the Arrow, which Jones described as “the top youth representative for Boy Scouts nationwide.” Outside of SGA, Hartgrove is also a member of the Chancellor’s Honors Program, College Scholars, the Baker Policy Challenge and the Student Health Advisory Board. Curtis also boasts an impressive amount of

Michael Curtis (left), Morgan Hartgrove (middle), and Hunter Jones (right) Laura Altawil • The Daily Beacon

campus participation: director of staff for Orientation Transition, Ignite Team Leader, president of Brothers United for Excellence, member of Student Alumni Associates, the NAACP, the Multicultural Mentoring Program and Multicultural Student Life, College of Nursing Ambassador and member of the College of Nursing Honors Program. Through their own extensive campus interactions, Hartgrove and Curtis knew Jones, with his proven track record, good leadership

and good work ethic, made him the right person for the position. “Of all the experiences I’ve had in leading other committees and things like that, I thought I could really make an impact with the student services committee and help bring some fresh ideas and a new perspective to those committees to help revitalize some of them and make them more student oriented,” Jones said. See MORGAN MICKEY HUNTER on Page 6

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Two weeks ago, Memphis natives Phillip Newsom and Emily Dickey announced their intent to run for SGA president and SGA vice president, respectively, for the 2017-2018 academic year. Newsom, a junior in economics and accounting, is an SGA senator, and has been involved in various organizations within the Haslam College of Business as well as fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Dickey, a junior in supply chain management and philosophy, is also a senator in SGA and has been a part of SGA since her freshman year on First-Year Council as well as other student government committees and sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma. “I think’s it’s really funny,” Newsom said. “When we made our decision, (to run) we were sitting on the patio at Hanna’s on the Strip on a weekend, and we were just talking, and what we were saying … were the same

things.” Newsom and Dickey’s campaign, Unite UT, is focused on unifying students and giving all students a voice. “We think it should be representative of all students and not just students speaking up,” Newsom said. “Everybody’s voice on campus is important. And just because I may be extremely courageous and speak from the rooftop, there’s still somebody who’s down on the floor who may not be as loudly heard. But, in the end, everybody needs to be represented.” As its name implies, the campaign also wants to unify students with SGA and unify SGA on an internal level. “We believe in really taking a pivot with student government and refocusing on the students. And that’s done … with the vision of an open and accountable student government,” Newsom said. “Student government should never be a divisive thing,” Dickey said. “Student government should always be on the side of the students and should always be something that unites students.”

Phillip Newsom (left) and Emily Dickey (right) Alex Phillips • The Daily

To accomplish their goal, Unite UT wants to emphasize a horizontal leadership structure of student government rather than a hierarchal one when it comes to student body president, vice president and student services director. At the same time, they also want a horizontal structure among SGA and all other student organizations.

“By fostering an organization that really exemplifies those values, we can put more students in front of administrations and fight for what they’re passionate about,” Newsom said. “We want to trust the student body to fight for themselves.” See NEWSOM DICKEY on Page 8

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MORGAN MICKEY HUNTER continued from Page 5 But, before they approached Jones, Hartgrove and Curtis had to commit to running for their own positions, a process that Curtis described as “going back and forth.� “It’s not the fact that we feel we aren’t prepared or that we’re not qualified,� Curtis said. “We want to make sure that we aren’t doing this for ourselves, that we are doing it for the greater good of the university.� While he contemplated this decision, Curtis said that Hartgrove supported and encouraged him the entire time by showing him the characteristics he possessed that made him suited for the vice presidential position. “She kind of instilled that fire. She relit it for me,� Curtis said. “After that I knew for sure that she was going to be a good president, and I was going to at least be an okay vice president.� And, for Hartgrove and Curtis, being a good leader hinges on actively listening and serving all of your constituents. Hartgrove has seen this play out in her time in SGA, such as when students complained about library

crowding during finals and in response, SGA wrote a bill expanding the hours of HSS, Haslam Business Building and the student union. “It’s just interesting to see the problems that other students bring to the table that they don’t really know the SGA can fix and then SGA’s response to those issues,� Hartgrove said. If elected, Hartgrove, Curtis and Jones will lead a student body that is still getting to know a new chancellor and still uncertain of the state of diversity on campus, but Hartgrove doesn’t anticipate these circumstances changing the focus of their jobs. “We would approach (diversity) as we would any issue, and that’s by talking to other students and reaching out to hear what they think,� Hartgrove said. “That’s what we’re elected to do; I’m not going to force my opinion on someone else and call it public service.� The campaign’s has five main goals: to promote academic enrichment, to foster campus unity, to enhance campus resources, to improve campus and fort safety and to improve student conduct processes. Although these goals are broad, each candidate has specific causes they are passionate about. For Hartgrove, academic enrichment is

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they can get a Fort Buddy from Morrill Hall.� Curtis said. “The individual in a very well-lit jacket will come to Morrill Hall with a walkietalkie, and they will get that student and walk that student to their final destination.� Jones said changing the campus alcohol policy is another factor in improving campus and Fort safety. Although he said the campaign doesn’t have a concrete proposal for this change, he does not want to simply “flip the light switch� and become a wet campus. “Instead of just advocating that ‘Yes we want it,’ it’s ‘Yes, we want it, and this is how we want it,’� Jones said. However, all of the candidates agreed on the main priority of their campaign: campus unity. Reaching out to individuals around campus, holding more diverse forms of town halls and hosting joint events are a few of the ways they hope to achieve that goal. “First and foremost, we want to be able to bring different constituents from all over campus together to let SGA be that rallying point that connects them all and creates a better understanding of what this community is doing, why they are doing it,� Jones said. “Once people have an understanding of each other, we can really make some things happen.�

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SGAELECTIONS

The Daily Beacon • Friday, April 7, 2017

BANKS MARSH continued from Page 4 “In terms of the intellectual diversity office, we need to bring back the office that was there prior because that office was doing great work, and I think the legislators —they need to be hearing us because we’ve been telling them over and over that this office has worked for us. It’s done a lot of things for people on campus—especially minority students,” Banks said. The campaign is using the acronym LIT to stand for leadership, integrity and teamwork. Marsh said the word is supposed to touch on fun and seriousness. “LIT in itself kind of brings about a laugh and a joke, and that’s what we want. We want positivity on campus,” Marsh said. “I think it kind of gives both the impression that, yes, we’re fun and we can have a good time, and positive but also ... we’re going to work hard towards these incredibly important goals.” Banks said the acronym helps students approach an organization that is often seen as too formal. “Our organization, quite frankly, is not an approachable organization, and the elections a lot of times are very … it’s just formal. So I thought, what can we do to make it more approachable?” Banks said. “It is a word that people use. It is lit, and you can say it when you’re going to fail a test, or you can say it when you’re just having a good time.” SGA candidates often promise to accomplish goals for students that, in reality, may never happen. Banks and Marsh realize this and say that they want to be honest with the limits of SGA. Instead of promising a wet campus, they want to focus on smaller goals like lowering prices in the POD markets or changing bus routes. “We have to be careful about what we promise to students because no one’s going to buy in if you’re promising things that aren’t going to happen,” Banks said.

BUTLER continued from Page 4 More than anything, Butler said he wants to ensure that every student on UT’s campus feels like they have a voice and ability to make change on campus. On his website (https://abutle24.wixsite.com/ website), Butler has identified several milestones he hopes to reach should he win SGA president, namely increasing the minority populations on campus, requiring incoming students to attend Speakologist, diversity or Safe Zone training and bring back the Real Food Challenge, which encourages universities to divest from industrial farms and corporate food providers to local, community-based food sources. With the dissolution of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion in 2016, Butler said one of his chief priorities is the recruitment of diverse and

“LIT in itself kind of brings about a laugh and a joke, and that’s what we want.”

NEWSOM DICKEY continued from Page 5

Sexual assault and consent education are issues that are important to Banks and Marsh. There are online courses on consent that freshman must take, but Marsh said that it is not enough. “That (consent education) should be face to face. You should be having those conversations with students in … a face-to-face interaction because those online things are easy to get around, and that message is so important that we need to make sure that every student coming in gets that message,” Marsh said. Banks said their campaign is different not because of who they are but because of who is supporting them. “This is not like a typical SGA campaign,” Banks said. “A lot of the folks that we have with us have never been in SGA, and that’s so refreshing because it’s people that have an outside perspective that we desperately need to break that bubble that SGA always has ... We’re being real with people. I mean, I will be very open about mistakes our organization has made in this year alone, and it happens each year. “It just happens, but we have to own up to those in order to move forward.” Banks and Marsh want students to know that, at the core, the candidates are lit to run for office. “We’re lit for UT,” Banks said, “and we want others to…” “Be lit with us,” Marsh added.

“I think there is a lack of communication within SGA,” Dickey said. “So, I mean, if you’re lacking communication within SGA, how are you going to communicate with the student body and to administrators for the students?” Newsom especially wants to tackle issues like providing wet zones on campus and implementing zero-based budgets. Newsom has been involved with developing an alcohol policy that includes providing 22 wet spots on campus, a major departure from the current dry campus of UT. Newsom said there was a recent change in the student code of conduct that allows UT administrators to make the campus a wet campus whenever they see fit. “It takes it out of the state legislature’s hands and, should our student code of conduct pass the legislator, the alcohol policy could be implemented day one,” Newsom said. “This is not a policy for parties on campus,” Newsom said. “It’s a policy to keep students from going to the Fort and walking back and forth, and it’s focused on safety by providing the necessary resources for students to get informed about proper drinking techniques … It would provide a much safer environment for students to partake in those kind of activities.” Newsom would also like to adopt zero-based budgets when it comes to funding for administrators and faculty members. Zero-based budgeting is a budgeting system where all expenses must be justified for each new period. This type of budgeting starts from a base of zero at the end of every period, and budgets are built around what is needed for the next period based on an analysis of needs and costs. Newsom said, with the current budget system, if administrators spend all of their allotted budget, then for the next period, they will receive the same monetary amount plus stipend increases. “I firmly believe that holding administrators

minority faculty who may not be attracted to UT for it’s less than favorable reputation concerning inclusivity on campus. “Right now, based off of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessments, for faculty, we have about 1,700 white professors … but when you add up just minority faculty on campus, it ranges from about 3 to 400,” he said. “When you talk about having a broadened view and perspective of what the world is like, not every student is going to get that. We need to have more minority faculty and staff so students can be prepared for the workforce.” Butler also said one aspect of SGA he hopes to change is their limited involvement with other campus organizations. During election season, Butler said he sees campaigning students visiting different groups and learning about their interests. Oftentimes, though, that highway of communication comes to a halt after the results are announced. “SGA kind of keeps to themselves for the

most part,” he said. “They have their monthly events or things of that nature, but you realize after that campaign trail ends and the votes are in and it’s time to actually understand what their peers want, come next year, I don’t see the majority going out and talking on campus like they did during election season.” He said SGA has come a long way since his freshman year in broadening its reach, but there is still room for improvement in representing all UT students equally. Of the roughly 300 students involved in SGA, Butler said there should be no excuse for not personally visiting every campus organization throughout the year to hear about their concerns and complaints and what they want to see from SGA. “I really want to get to know different people and just make this campus one community, like it is in Neyland Stadium on Gamedays,” Butler said. “We should bring that community—when we’re screaming Rocky Top in Neyland—outside and into the classrooms too.”

Kiersten Marsh, sophomore in political science, senator for sorority village

and departments and staff members accountable for the money that they’re spending is the way that our money should be spent,” Newsom said. “(Zero-based budgeting) makes sure they’re spending their money effectively, and not just spending to a cap so that they get a certain amount of money next year. “I don’t think you can hold people at fault for that, but I do think that you can change the system and hold them accountable for the money they’re spending.” The overarching goal to unify campus may be harder than it seems, especially with this year’s divided campus. Unite UT also discussed how they would handle tension on campus. “More than anything, we think student government should be a proactive force on campus rather than a reactive force. So, rather than waiting for something to happen … we already have plans in place to combat both divisive issues and more monetary and funding issues,” Newsom said. “Why should we wait until everybody’s divided? Let’s bring them together before we hit a divided issue.” While many other campaigns for SGA president and vice president seek to unite students, unity plays a key role in Newsom and Dickey’s idea of what campus should be like. “For us, (unity) is what matters the most. Phillip and I are nothing special, but SGA can be and we know that,” Dickey said. “And, so our whole campaign is about a vision instead of just about us.” Both candidates expressed their hopes for a successful student government, one that does not have to include them in the spotlight. “We’re not here to get a pat on the back or get recognition,” Newsom said. “That’s not the job of student government.” “If we won this, looking at our year of SGA this time next year, if no one remembers Phillip and I’s names, we wouldn’t have a problem with that,” Dickey said. “But, if they can say, ‘Wow, when I was in college, my student government was there for me when I needed them,’ or something like that, that’s fine with us. That’s a successful year.”

If Butler is elected SGA president, he’ll be preparing for next year with a lot of unanswered questions about leadership and campus resources. Several top administration positions have only recently been filled, like Beverly Davenport’s appointment for UT Chancellor, and others still have yet to be filled. Further, the state law that terminated the Office of Diversity and Inclusion expires after this academic year, and it is still uncertain whether funds will be reallocated to diversity programming on campus. Butler, however, said these ambiguities only give him more drive, as he remains optimistic to see what he can do with a malleable, unpredictable and evolving university. “It’s an exciting time, and I think with uncertainty comes a lot of things that you can do,” Butler said. “You just have to have a steady hand at the forefront, and I feel like I can be that steady hand … There’s nothing that I’m scared about.” “Pressure bursts pipes or makes diamonds, and I want SGA to be a diamond.”

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