PSG forum introduces candidates to students

By Matt Lindner
Assistant Campus Editor

Fliers touting the presidential and senatorial candidates running for the open seats in Purdue Student Government cover the campus sidewalks.

At tonight's PSG meeting, students will have an opportunity to put a face to the names on those fliers, as there will be an open forum for students to ask questions at 7 in LAEB, Room 2290.

PSG elections started Tuesday night at midnight and will run until Thursday at midnight. The fact that the forum is this evening has both presidential candidates wondering how much of an impact it will have on the outcome of the election.

School of Liberal Arts senator Sean Cowley said the primary goal of the meeting is to give the candidates the chance to be heard.

"The main thing we are concerned with is making sure that all candidates have ample time to express their opinions and the general public has the time to voice their concerns," Cowley said. "We are trying to make this as legitimate of an organization as possible, and while we realize there are going to be a lot of new faces in the fall and we want to show that these are very legitimate people that are coming into office."

Dave Purpura, who is one of the two remaining presidential candidates, expressed his concern about how much the students would gain from attending the forum.

"This forum is beneficial but I think it would better serve the students if they had it before the start of elections because the majority of students here cast their ballot during the first night of voting," Purpura said. "However, (the forum) will give the general student population a chance to be better informed and allow them to see the candidates as people instead of just words on paper."

PSG presidential candidate Greg Canfield viewed the timing of the forum as something the next regime can learn from.

"I'm disappointed that the forum wasn't earlier but this is a learning experience, this is something that we can work on changing for next year," Canfield said. "Overall, because of PSG's new structure and all the new people this year, we hope we are able to solve some of the minor problems for next year."

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