"Everyone else made their [running-mate] decisions with the sole purpose of garnering votes," said the presidential candidate from Salt Lake City, who enjoys fishing and target shooting ("not animals!") in his spare time.

Despite the fact that Tenney owns a sewing machine and Leonard owns a shotgun, the two do seem to have similar outlooks and goals. Both are Democrats, both anticipate careers in politics (Tenney in a think tank, Leonard in local office), and both have worked hard to get their message out this week despite being sick.

They went door to door in the first-year dorms carrying a message of parties and reform--Leonard, though, ended up spending a lot of time explaining to he first-years what the council does.

Tenney was questioned over and over again about blocking group sizes. She replied that had she been vice president, she would have worked hard to stop the administration from reducing block sizes.

At this point, Tenney says, there's little she and Leonard can do, but they hope members of their council would stay on campus during the summer to keep tabs on the administration.

Their door-to-door campaigning did not give the candidates a chance to talk about the nuts and bolts of their campaign--which range from adding hot soup to the Fly-By menu to aggressively lobbying the administration for more student group space.

Leonard and Tenney plan to "take back the MAC" by giving the $25,000 to the administration to use to pay an architect, hopefully an "altruistic alum." The money would come from funds the council pledged to the administration last year for a student center.

Because the MAC swimming pool is no longer used for competition, Leonard says, it doesn't need stadium seating. He envisions lowering the roof above the pool to allow for five floors, the top two of which would house student offices, fast food eateries and student meeting places.