George and Granath’s platform focuses on their hopes to “rebuild the UC from the ground up” through initiatives including overhauling Harvard’s social spaces, standardizing the alcohol policy, reforming campus-wide events, and amending the UC constitution to improve the procedure for funding student groups.

“I think our mindset is that obviously a lot of these issues are going to be tackled on a long-term basis, but its our responsibility to start those conversations and start that ball rolling so our successors will have that base off of which to build,” Granath says.

Friends and campaign staff say that George and Granath’s enthusiasm and energy would help make these larger goals a reality.

“When he’s passionate about something, he doesn’t stop until he sees what he wants, and I think that’s something that the UC needs,” says George’s friend Kefhira F. Pintos ’14.

George and Granath say they are excited to put that passion into practice.

“This is our University, and it’s our experience,” Granath says. “So it’s what we make of it and the legacy that we want to leave here on campus.”