You may or may not be aware that we ran for ASSU Executive as the REVOLUTION slate. We will not promote our sweeping policy agenda. We will tell you how we had ten times more fun than our opponents with thirty times less budget. A fun campaign is 95 percent free. Money should only be spent on what cannot be borrowed or recycled.

Rhetoric is always free. The peak event of our campaign was a ranting sermon delivered to hundreds of curious constituents in White Plaza and Tresidder Union. Preaching is so easy and effective that you can do it, too! Memorial Church will give you a complimentary copy of the New Testament, and Yost House will lend its mobile pulpit to any ordained Doctor of Divinity. There’s no word like God’s word.

The ASSU will hand you a microphone at many public events to prophesize at will. Don’t mind them when they try to grab it back. Say what you want.

Food can be free. We gave out dozens of REVOLUTION bananas (our official fruit) without spending a dime. Dining halls dispose of excess food every day. Ask the dining staff about this free phenomenon.

Some fun is recycled. An effective (even sweat-free!) campaign T-shirt can be manufactured by spray-painting a design onto a T-shirt you don’t want anymore. Cut a stencil from a cardboard box, place it over the shirt, and spray. Even a beginner can make fifty shirts an hour.

Light shows are cheap. For $40 you can rent a Source Four stage light and project your campaign symbol onto Hoover Tower. You will find it hard to project a more ironic symbol than our Palm & Sickle, but we encourage you to try.

The easiest way to run a fun and free campaign is to be poor. It worked for us. Without the possibility of dropping thousands of dollars on ephemeral garbage, you won’t! Richer candidates are at a serious disadvantage when it comes to fun and free campaigning. Campaigning at its best is campaigning on the cheap. Keep this in mind when you campaign. Or don’t! We don’t care!

Red Daly and Jon Rich are wholly unsatisfied with The Daily's campaign coverage. Publishing this op-ed is but the first step of repentance.