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Candidates promote campaign strategies

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With student body elections nearing, candidates are planning strategies to have their names be heard by students around campus.

“We are taking a very aggressive strategy,” Current Vice President Nate Jones said.

Nate Jones and Garrett Lower's promotional T-shirts cling to the three muses outside of Old Admin. —Photo by Ashley Swanson
Nate Jones and Garrett Lower’s promotional T-shirts cling to the three muses outside of Old Admin. —Photo by Ashley Swanson

Jones is running for president and is campaigning with Garrett Lower for vice president.

The pair have been seen around campus wearing promotional T-shirts and have even dressed up the muses sculpture near Old Admin in the T-shirts.

“We thought the T-shirts on the muses was a great idea to attract attention and reach a lot of people,” Jones said.

Opponent candidates Dillon Spies, a current Senator representing High Rise and Taylor Strong, a current Senator representing Andrews, have strategies of their own.

Spies, running for president, and Strong for vice president, are taking a more assertive approach and are handing out flyers and cookies in the Student Center this week.

Although the self-promotion seems to be on track, their posters have been set back. Both sides have placed posters in High Rise and the breezeway, among other places around campus, that have been torn down by unknown suspects.

“We have no clue who did it,” Strong said, Wednesday. “Their’s [Jones and Lower] were being torn down too.”

“It could be a third party,” Spies said. “It takes a lot of time to not only print them but to hang them up.”

Taylor Strong, right, 20, sophomore of Scottsbluff, hands a pamphlet to a passerby during the Strong and Spies Campaign, Tuesday in the Student Center Lobby. —Photo by Ashley Swanson
Taylor Strong, right, 20, sophomore of Scottsbluff, hands a pamphlet to a passerby during the Strong and Spies Campaign, Tuesday in the Student Center Lobby. —Photo by Ashley Swanson

Jones also mimicked what Spies and Strong said, adding that he and Lower hanged up 150 posters in High Rise and the next day maybe 20 were left.

“Jon Lordino [Senate chief justice] is looking into it for us,” Jones said. “He’s going to go back and look at the cameras [for clues].”

The candidates were unwilling to comment any further on their upcoming plans for further campaigning.

A Presidential Debate is taking place on the second floor of library from 5-5:45 p.m., today.