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The second election was a little bit tough,

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not tough from a voting standpoint but a little bit tough.

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I was running against somebody that

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had worked right beside of me the previous year.

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We knew each other well.

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Different sides, probably threw some things out there that were

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not helping with our friendship,

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and above all I wanted to make sure that

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each campaign was run appropriately and that at the end of the day no matter who won

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that we would still be friends,

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and so I think really the--. I guess in a nutshell

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the politics of it to me

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were the most challenging aspect.

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Everything else was fun,

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and although not easy it’s

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much easier to go in and talk to the faculty senate about the issue at hand

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or talk to the student senate about the issue at hand,

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but when it gets down to vote for me versus voting for that person,

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who I like and respect,

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that probably is the part that I found least fun.

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Everybody that has asked me about my time as student body president over the years

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and what part did you like least,

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and the politics--. I’ve always been surprised at how much politics, pure, ugly politics,

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is involved in student government, or at least was at the time,

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and that is probably the thing that I liked least about it.