A Light-Hearted Campaign
Some of the candidates were out at 12:01 a.m. last Monday—the official start of campaigning—braving the cold and darkness to plaster their names all over campus.
Maats and Fox were not.
Instead, they have taken a more laid-back to campaigning.
Each candidate has only used $2.40 of his allotted $100 budget for campaigning.
No student groups have officially endorsed them.
Maats and Fox have not pasted any posters with their names in large fonts like the other tickets.
Instead, they have put up standard size pieces of paper with slogans like “We have the Haats 4 Maats.”
Maats and Fox campaigned in front of the Science Center with fliers reading “Hunter Maats and J.P. Fox Will End Bigotry: If you are going to make promises you can’t keep, they might as well be good ones.”
Maats does not have a traditional campaign team either.
Instead of a campaign manager, he calls Katherine R. Katz ’04 the “trophy wife” of his campaign.
“I have been acting as his first lady for his campaign,” Katz says. “He also had some body guards and an assassin.”