Students of Liberty plans to return

Friday, April 11, 2008

Students of Liberty vow to return next year

Adam Wood, Lawrence junior, and Eric Hyde, Lawrence sopomore, were upbeat at Students of Liberty camp yesterday afternoon, despite coming in third in the Student Senate presidential election.

United Students candidates Adam McGonigle, Wichita sophomore, and Michael Gillaspie, Ashland junior, won the election with 48 percent of the vote.

Photo by Jessie Fetterling

Eric Hyde, Lawrence sophomore, Mitchell Jones, Burlington sophomore, and Adam Wood, Lawrence junior, anticipate the election results for student senate Tuesday night at Vice President nominee, Eric Hyde's, house. All three were part of the Students for Liberty group promoting energy preservation on campus.

Wood, Students of Liberty presidential candidate, said that despite the loss, he was proud of the election results.

“I think it’s pretty impressive that we did as well as Student Rights did last year,” Wood said. “We did as well as they did and they had a lot more people and a lot more money.”

The Students of Liberty campaign, consisting of only seven student senators, picked up 7 percent of the vote, and only spent about $75.

Both Wood and Hyde, the coalition’s vice presidential candidate, said the campaign was a victory for Students of Liberty because its campaign influenced both United Students and ConnectKU.

Wood said United Students ran on Student’s of Liberty’s environmental platform, which included adding solar panels to campus buildings and implementing lead platinum standard – the highest eco standard – for all new campus buildings.

“The United Students’ entire environmental platform came right out of our mouths,” he said. “But that’s just something that typically happens in politics.

Wood said Students of Liberty’s campaign also influenced ConnectKU to move further toward fiscal responsibility.

Both candidates said they plan on running on similar platforms in next year’s Student Senate election.

“We’re running again next year so if they don’t do what they say they will then we’ll get in there and do it,” he said. “We’ll be back in full force.”

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