Travis announces launch of MSA presidential campaign
The candidates and volunteers gathered the required signatures for the campaign in Speakers Circle on Tuesday.
Published Sept. 7, 2010
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Josh Travis, former Missouri Students Association Operations Committee chairman, talks to students Tuesday at Speakers Circle as part of his campaign for MSA president. Travis, along with his running mate Michelle Horan and their campaign volunteers collected signatures for his petition to run for president of Missouri Student Association.
Missouri Students Association presidential candidate Josh Travis and vice presidential candidate Michelle Horan officially began their campaign at noon Tuesday in Speakers Circle.
The candidates and their volunteers handed out free lemonade and gathered signatures in order to acquire the necessary 500 signatures required by the Board of Elections Commissioners to secure a spot for candidates on the ballot.
The main points of the Travis-Horan campaign focus on sustainability, TigerWatch, “fostering the Mizzou family” and breaking down barriers between students, Horan said.
According to the Travis-Horan campaign handout, Travis and Horan plan to work with university administrators to create a university message campaign entitled “The Mizzou Family” that starts on day one of freshman year and aims to illustrate the “Tiger Family” bond.
Travis and Horan also look to encourage academic achievement and create a more efficient way of registering for classes as well as create a syllabus archive for student use, Travis-Horan Campaign Manager Abhi Sivasailam said.
According to the handout, the syllabus archive will establish a clearinghouse of knowledge on classes offered at MU in order to provide students with a look into the structure of particular classes, as well as material that may be covered in a given course.
Travis is also looking to promote and increase safety on campus. The campaign endorses Tigerwatch, a student organization with a goal to reduce the feeling of danger among the campus community at night. The group plans to launch this fall on campus, but has a significantly lower number of officers signed up, 9, than its goal of 25.
“Josh is looking to expand TigerWatch and increase pedestrian safety on College Avenue,” Sivasailam said.
According to the campaign handout, Travis and Horan plan to work to reduce the speed limit on College Avenue to 25 mph between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3:45 p.m.
Travis and Horan also plan to reach out to students throughout the campaign by means of town hall meetings, and appearances on the MSA auxiliaries MUTV/Channel 23 and KCOU/88.1 FM, as well as bi-weekly addresses via Facebook and YouTube.