Seniors Get Creative with Campaigns
by Erika Heyder

Creating catchy campaign slogans, holding up posters and passing out fliers have always been traditional methods of campaigning. But senior class president candidates Bobby Whisnant and Madison Perry have both come up with creative ideas to try to pull in more votes.

Perry and his running mate have constructed a house out of cardboard. They intend to live in the house during 24-hour periods in the lower quad.

“The idea is sleep in the quad in our cardboard house and show the dedication of the class and the dedication to the recycling initiative,” said vice-presidential candidate Whit Walker.

Whisnant has found an alternative to buying costly campaign buttons.

“We have clothespins that say ‘Bobby and Jenny, Get In’ and we use these instead of conventional buttons or pins because we felt like that would stick out,” said Whisnant.

With so many different elections occurring on campus, the candidates believe it is important that their messages reach the crowds through these original strategies.

“We’re just trying to do things in new, different, creative ways because it is tough to cut through that clutter,” said Walker.

Junior Adjoa Adofo has closely followed the senior class elections and believes both sets of candidates are successfully voicing their platforms.

“I think they’ve both been very informative about what they’re about,” said Adofo. “I feel like they’ve both been very visible.”