PRESIDENT, DAVID GOBAUD ‘08: former ASSU Senate Associate, Information Technology Services Advisory Group Student Representative, Computer Science Student Advisory Committee, creator Stanford GER Treasure Hunter, Stanford Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) co-founder and president, Google student ambassador.

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VICE PRESIDENT, GREG GOLDGOF ‘08: 680 House Manager, Stanford ACM co-founder and vice president, Dance Marathon Education Committee member, Stanford Hospital radiology volunteer.

The Stanford Daily (TSD): What sets you apart from other candidates?

GG: The other slates want to convert Old Union into a social place, and we want to convert it into a study place. We want to turn Tresidder into a social place. ResEd needs to move out of Tresidder; we’d like to put a student lounge there. We actually have social programming next year. There’s a huge discretionary fund for executives, and now no one even knows about it.

DG: I’ve had over a thousand people using my GER treasure hunter. I saw this need for finding GERs, and you can’t do it easily with the current system. It takes me a couple hours to put this thing up, and thousands of people have used it. We feel we can do the same thing on a bigger scale. People need a site that they can go to. The ASSU site is useless right now. There’s no reason to go to it.

GG: We are co-terms, and we are the only grad students running. Grad students are always shafted. Social events for grads this year were the mausoleum party and the block party. The other platforms have the same line as previous ones; they think the grad students want to go to expanded undergrad events — that’s not true.

DG: I talked to administrators about my graduate ideas, and they thought they were great. One of those is a graduate graduation. We are talking about a graduate dinner on the quad and a graduate formal in the city. For the 750 — ambience is horrible; very few women come, because it’s like a bar. We want better music, food and good drinks.

GG: We would like to help provide funding and advertisements for GSC events. We want to have weekly things in the 750. We want to expand the current happy hour. The grad students don’t feel like the ASSU is related to them in any way.

TSD: So are you primarily a graduate student slate?

DG: We are covering everyone. We not only care about the undergrads, but also the grad students.

TSD: Why have you been so specific with your platform? A lot of the other slates have been far more vague.

DG: We know what we want to get done.

GG: Every year people say things and don’t get them done, because there are no benchmarks.

DG: I talked to Provost John Etchemendy, VP for Student Affairs Chris Griffith, Director of Student Activities Nanci Howe, Chief Housing Officer Rodger Whitney, Vaden Director Ira Friedman and IT Director William Clebsch. We’ve been working 24/7. We have thoroughly researched everything on our platform.