SA Campaign Season Starts with Poster Scramble

By Myles Goldman

Gw’s political equivalent to black Friday occurred last Monday morning.  The annual Student Association election tradition of poster day took place bright and early at 7am.  

Candidates and their supporters started gathering at Kogan Plaza at 6:30am.  

Mitchell Langley, a Junior was out early for Columbian College Senate Candidate Marshall Cohen.  

"He [Cohen] will be a really good Senator," Langley said. "He would do a really good job staying involved."  

Fellow Junior Nathan Felton woke up early for VP Candidate Will Ellingson.  

"I've been pretty involved and I haven't seen a candidate with as good of a platform," he commented.
Shortly before 7am the candidates and their supporters took their stances behind the yellow “do not cross” campaign taped to the pavement.  

Shreya Chaturvedi, a candidate for Columbian College Senate, had a strategy for the chaos that was about to ensue. 

"My strategy is to get [my posters up] in doorways at the Marvin Center and Academic Center," she said.

As the clock struck seven, the Joint Elections Committee sounded an airhorn and candidates and their supporters rushed the H Street entrance of the Marvin Center, carving out prime space for their posters

Other campaigns rushed to the Academic building complex of Rome and Phillips Hall down the street.  Campaigns also put posters up at the University Yard entrance to Lisner Hall and the Mount Vernon campus.

This year was different because the JEC ruled that each campaign can only put-up 30 posters total including the Mount Vernon campus.  In the past campaigns were limited in the amount of posters per a location but the overall total was much greater than 30.  

The chaos lasted for about 20 minutes before many of the campaigns left to go have breakfast.

The election is March 20th and 21st.  

To see a collection of pictures from the morning go to: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151456156781030.1073741825.202960926029&type=3