City Times

Issue date: 5/19/09 Section: News

Media Credit: Carlos Maia David Campbell, running as an "independent" candidate, broke through to the student body on a personal level with his grass roots campaign style. By approaching people and addressing their educational needs as individuals, Campbell was able to garner enough votes to take the presidential position by a majority.

David Campbell, a digital audio production and biology major and a self-proclaimed "underdog and independent student," won the Associated Student Government presidential election, dominating the votes of the student body with 392 votes out of 705 participating voters.

Although the election results were temporarily suspended last week due to the controversy during the election, Denise Whisenhunt, Dean of Student Affairs, made his win official by commenting that "(Campbell) would be our next ASG president."

Campbell was originally inspired to run for president when he was approached by a former president who couldn't offer him an answer to what the ASG's agenda exactly was. Campbell also noted during the presidential debate that he felt that school activities were "declining."

Campbell said he felt "intimidated by all the Team Klue posters on campus" and the citycollegeaction.com Web site. He decided in order to win over City students, he had to use their voices and opinions directly and really find out what the students needed.

Campbell said he felt his campaign was "pretty damn strategic," and walked around campus with his notebook talking to students. He asked every student he came in contact with what they personally wanted to see change on campus.

Campbell made it a point to push himself to students as the "underdog," telling students that he was "the independent candidate," and "a student just like you guys."

Campbell also mentioned that he was excited to work with his vice-president elect, Christopher Conyers, a current ASG senator. Campbell said that Conyers had "more experience with ASG and really cares about changes that are to be made on campus."

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