The executive board candidates for the FUSION and RENEW parties in the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska student elections ran with the intention of serving the student body, and while they were not elected, the candidates hope to follow that intention through.
Both Reid DeSpiegelaere and Cori Curtis, the presidential candidates for the FUSION and RENEW parties, respectively, plan on furthering the platforms on which their parties ran.
The FUSION Party ran on platforms of communication and accessibility, as well as furthering the arts on campus.
"The ideas of the campaign I was involved in will not die," said DeSpiegelaere, a junior history major.
He has talked to a couple people about starting up a student organization that will expand the arts community and integrate it with the rest of the campus.
"I will continue to try to create a student government that represents other students and that the students will want to be involved in," DeSpiegelaere said.
The RENEW Party ran on platforms regarding global classrooms and diversity in representation.
Curtis, a senior international studies major, said he hopes to serve students by continuing to teach in a global classroom and expanding it to the students at the university.
A global classroom is "something I want to leave as a legacy for the students at UNL," he said.
Curtis said he hopes to push two bills concerning the global classroom in the Faculty Senate Committee.
One bill will go to the Faculty Senate and the other to the Senior Advisory Team. The bills would establish an ad hoc committee that would set up guidelines for global classrooms and establish connections with other countries, as well as a help database.
He also plans on getting diverse representation by taking applications for ASUN to different organizations.
"Even though I wasn't elected, I made promises to the student body, and I will keep those promises," Curtis said.
Other candidates are planning on serving the students through other student organizations.
Sammy Nabulsi, a junior political science major and the internal vice presidential candidate for the RENEW Party, will be sworn in as the next regional director of the Residence Hall Association in San Diego during the summer.
He said he plans on continuing sustainability efforts, which includes an online sustainability pledge and promoting RecycleMania and energy conservation.
"When I came on campus, I had the mindset to serve the students, and I want to continue that," he said.
Other candidates hope to continue to serve the student body through ASUN.
Emily Schlichting, a junior political science major and FUSION's external vice presidential candidate, said she is applying for a position in ASUN next year.
"I think it's very important if you find the student government interesting to be involved," she said.
While she was looking at the Government Liaison Committee, Schlichting said she was going to apply across the board.
"I'm going to play it by ear," she said.
kimbuckley@dailynebraskan.com
is a member of the 
2 comments