The biggest thing about my platform was I used realistic projects and things,
so I'd been so involved and connected throughout the university that
before I put something on the platform I wanted it to be realistic
and something that students wanted but also not an empty promise and something
that I really felt we could make happen. The biggest thing, I'd been involved
with dining for two years on the university standing committee and students--
what seemed like easy things that we could get done that students really wanted,
so the late-night dining was the big thing, and it really wasn't too hard to get done.
And so as student government I tried to facilitate student wants and explanations
in a realistic way, so didn't want to ask a campus administrator or someone
to do something crazy, so doing research beforehand, seeing what other campuses had,
and trying to get that at NC State. . . . And that was another thing with listening
to student concerns and knowing issues that people were having finding a place
to study on campus. Talley was closing; D. H. Hill was really crowded. . . .
Evelyn Reiman worked with me on that project and we created some spaces in Harrelson,
not the prettiest, but some temporary places there and in Witherspoon,
just a little lounge that students could go study. It's great to have electrical outlets
so I think I was working to get more places like that on campus, so study space
that also had the ability to plug in your phone for a charge or maybe your computer.