Everett Bruer and Lexie Cartee announced their candidacy for Missouri Students Association president and vice president Tuesday.
“A few things that we want to focus on are diversity, academics, sustainability and campus safety,” Bruer said of his and Cartee’s platform.
With the slogan, “Mizzou For You,” the duo is running on the premise that MU should be a positive experience for every student.
“Making sure that the student government works for students, that’s what I really want to do with it,” he said.
Bruer and Cartee have been meeting with student groups and getting feedback on their platform and policy ideas.
“Something that’s important as my job as a representative is making sure student organizations are well-represented,” Bruer said.
Bruer said one plan to help students involves incorporating several academic tools into one, easily accessible website.
“What we’re trying to do is take grade distribution, GPA calculator, course catalog for whatever academic college you’re in and professor review, we’re putting that all together through either our own website or possibly even through, if we could work it out, through MyZou,” Bruer said.
Bruer said he is particularly excited about working on sustainability.
“We’re tying to bring together all the different sustainability groups on campus for a campus-wide sustainability week,” he said.
Campaign manger Evan Wood said they also hope to improve MU’s Green Report Card score.
Green Report Card is an independent website that grades universities’ administrations, energy policies, food and recycling policies, use of green building and student involvement to compose a letter grade measuring a commitment to sustainability.
“Right now, MU has a B- and we want to get us on track to get an A+ by 2015,” Wood said.
With elections in November and plenty of time for others to announce their candidacy, Bruer said he was looking forward to the coming months.
“I’m really excited about the election and I’m excited about the potential to represent students to the administration,” he said.
