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Walsh & Silverstein

As the only ticket without prior GUSA experience, Spencer Walsh (MSB ’14) and Rob Silverstein (SFS ’14) are confident that their fresh perspectives could be an asset to the university community.

“People in GUSA in general work very hard, but they tend to be very narrowly focused on GUSA. We come from a different background with no GUSA experience, which we believe helps us take a more aggressive approach,” Walsh said.

Silverstein cited the pair’s involvement in clubs ranging from the Philodemic Society to the Georgetown University Cycling Team as instrumental to their relationship with the student body.

“We aren’t a part of that bureaucracy, so we understand student frustrations about space and events,” Silverstein said. “We have out-of-the-box ideas for how to make things work better.”

Walsh referred to the GUSA website — which was down for more than a semester — as an example of the university’s bureaucratic inefficiency. He stressed his commitment to creating a centralized space-booking system and a system tracking the promises he and Silverstein make throughout their campaign.

“The simple websites … can be built with or without university support,” Walsh said.

Walsh and Silverstein’s ideas include replacing advisory board approval for student group events with a general event contract declaring “presumed consent,” arranging shuttle buses from the parking lot outside the McDonough Arena directly to Verizon Center on game days, developing a discount for mass student deliveries from Safeway and expanding shuttles to airports and Union Station before major holidays.Spencer and Rob

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