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Running for student body president at NC State,

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I mean it's a full-on campaign. It's like running for the mayor of a small town.

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But the thing that set us apart was our visibility.

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A lot of people feel like maybe

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their participation in this part of campus life will help them achieve the position.

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That's not the case. It's just like politics in today's world,

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you have to be visible, and that's one thing our campaign did.

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We were out talking to people one on one. One of the things that

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I came up with was I wanted to shake as many hands as I could and talk to as many people as I could

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because if they had a concern I wanted them to voice it to me right then and there,

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not in a town hall meeting, not in a meeting where they would feel intimidated.

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They could talk to me, and the best place I did it was on the Wolfline.

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Basically what I did was I got on at Dan Allen [Drive]

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and I rode it down Hillsborough St. and basically I would talk to everybody on the bus

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that I could and get off at the end of the street and I'd run back up the street,

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get on again, and I would do that as much as I could in between classes.

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I shook people's hands and I told them who I was and I told them what I was doing and I asked them if they had any questions and they responded.

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They told me what they were wanting to do. Of course that was just one aspect of it,

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but we did a lot of different things. We were very creative.

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We did some cheesy things. It was around Easter the campaign was going on so we got an Easter Bunny outfit

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and we stood in the Brickyard. One of my friends wore it and he passed out flyers with my name on it

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and people were like, what is the Easter Bunny doing here?

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So just anything we could do to get people's attention

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that's what we did, but the biggest thing was people saw there was

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a fire in not just myself but in the people surrounding me, that we wanted to make a difference.

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One of the things that they really, really were excited about was our idea of something we had done before I had gotten elected,

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and that was-no, that was right after we got elected we were able to push it through.

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It was the idea of the late night busing system, similar to what Chapel Hill had at the time, the P2P.

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That was something that I was very determined to make happen and people really responded to that.

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Whether you were out late night studying at the library

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or if you were in a social setting and you needed a safe way home,

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this was a very realistic way to approach that problem and it worked.

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When we got elected [not only were we] able to get it through but we were able to do it at the cost of two dollars per student for the semester,

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which no one can argue that [wasn't] money well spent, and the program is still going 'til today.

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[Yeah, it's the Werewolf, right?] Yeah. [The Werewolf Line?]

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And I have to give a shout out to Angus Kelly, which is still one of my closest friends today.

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He named it the Werewolf and that's what we called it.