The practical problem posed by late slating decisions, for the newcomer, is the delays it introduces in

A) Building a campaign schedule
B) Building a campaign staff
C) Building campaign literature

For example, Senator Leybovich's kickoff was over a week ago, and even that was considered late. Now he has a committed volunteer staff of tens of people (hopefully) as well as the opportunity to coordinate his efforts with his fellow Student Action members. Whereas the CS person will have to scramble before everyone leaves for Spring Break.

The literature thing is also tricky. Essentially, every candidate has their lit and buttons and pickets all designed and ready to go. Then after the candidate's meeting, when numbers are assigned, everyone scrambles to plug in the final details and rush it off to production places. That gives them a turnaround of two weeks after the meeting, which is juuuust enough to get the lit in time for elections.

Caljunket posted the Squelch! Slate, but I'll put it here too:

President: Dan Freedman
External: David Duman
Executive: Rebecca C Brown
AAVP: Matt Holohan
SAO: Kevin Edward Deenihan

I'm thinking of running on a 'Nearly competent' platform. "My opponent was involved in the redrafting of the Student Conduct Code to better serve students. I was only one floor above him in the Squelch office while he was doing this."

And, of course, I hope to score the endorsements of two of the last three elected Student Advocates: Advocate Holohan and Advocate Schulman.



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