The second election was a little bit tough,
not tough from a voting standpoint but a little bit tough.
I was running against somebody that
had worked right beside of me the previous year.
We knew each other well.
Different sides, probably threw some things out there that were
not helping with our friendship,
and above all I wanted to make sure that
each campaign was run appropriately and that at the end of the day no matter who won
that we would still be friends,
and so I think really the--. I guess in a nutshell
the politics of it to me
were the most challenging aspect.
Everything else was fun,
and although not easy it’s
much easier to go in and talk to the faculty senate about the issue at hand
or talk to the student senate about the issue at hand,
but when it gets down to vote for me versus voting for that person,
who I like and respect,
that probably is the part that I found least fun.
Everybody that has asked me about my time as student body president over the years
and what part did you like least,
and the politics--. I’ve always been surprised at how much politics, pure, ugly politics,
is involved in student government, or at least was at the time,
and that is probably the thing that I liked least about it.