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I think that at that time student leaders were taking one side or the other and being very vocal about it and being--

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Some people were accusing other people of supporting one side or the other or the students may not have thought the faculty or the administration had done enough

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or that they made the wrong decision or some students felt like the other students should be supporting the faculty more and Coach Valvano less, or whatever the case may be.

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So I felt like it was a good opportunity to have somebody come in and sort of bridge that gap

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and get the students and the faculty and the administration more on a level playing field, more in tune with one another,

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not being so head to head against one another, and so that's really one of the things that I felt like I could help with.

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It was a very contentious time because it was very polarizing.

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You either supported Valvano or you didn't support Valvano,

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so if you didn't then you were against the people who did and if you did you were against the people who didn't.

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I felt like there were a lot of things that we could all work together on and sort of get through that,

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and even though that was more along the 1989, 1990 time, and I came in '91 for my first year as student body president,

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I felt like there were still some wounds to be healed and so I felt like that was something that I could help with.

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I had a good relationship with the administration, figures that I had dealt with at the time and felt like I could continue that with the chancellor or the provost or whomever.