Here are some more quotes from interviews conducted Tuesday with the three Vanderbilt Student Government presidential tickets. The candidates had much more to convey than I was able to include in the article published today, so here are a few more thoughts from each of them.

—Make sure you check out InsideVandy.com on Jan. 28 when we will publish the complete platform from each candidate.

Jared Anderson and Courtney Holliday

"Next year's going to be the first year that we have all the freshmen over on Peabody, so they're going to be kind of separated from main campus. We're hoping to address that issue by adjusting Vandy Van routes to add one over near The Commons, maybe adding more Vandy Vans so they feel connected, co-sponsoring events over there, and also running game-day shuttles between The Commons, the student tailgating area and Branscomb so that we can use athletics as a way to unite The Commons and main campus. — Anderson on connecting The Commons

"Really anything to do with technology here at Vanderbilt, we're a little bit behind other universities, so I really want to address those issues by talking to administrators." — Anderson on modernizing academic services

"Students are feeling a disconnect between what VSG can do for them, and we want to improve our internal communication so that we can figure out what students are wanting us to do and if we're lobbying enough, because we're the organization that has the most connections to all the administrators and to all the other student organizations, and we have the resources to provide a lot of services to students." — Holliday on internal VSG reforms that would help "improve the response rate to students"

"I've been fighting for course syllabi for a while now, and we finally said if the adinistration doesn't do this, we're going to go ahead with our own Web site. And so, that's an example of us standing up for students, being firm, and saying we want this to happen and if not, we're going to go our own way." — Anderson on how his experience lobbying for online course syllabi has prepared him to stand up to administrators

Reid Simon and Randall Norman

"I'm in an IFC fraternity, and she's in a Panhel sorority." —Simon on how he and Norman distinguish themselves from the other candidates as "the only true Greek ticket"

"Our campaign's three words are tradition, communication and innovation, and basically what that goes into is maintaining the traditions of our school while at the same time modernizing the processes by which VSG operates, keeping our image, keeping Vanderbilt's class but modernizing that image and class through expanding through communication and innovation." — Simon on the impetus behind his campaign

"Allow student interest groups to be directly involved with the process, so it's not this, 'Let's go out and search for problems.' Sure, we can search for problems, too, but if there's a problem out there, we want to be here to let people tell us." — Simon on how his new VSG structure would increase student organizations' involvement in government

"If anything, it strengthens the fact that I've stood up for what I believe in, I've acted within the constraints of the constitution and I have only had the best interests of the students in mind." — Simon on how his disagreements with other VSG officials do not affect his ability to govern and represent "healthy discourse for any government in its infancy"

Joseph Williams and Wyatt Smith

"One of the toughest balances to strike in student government is being a strong advocate for students and building trust with administrators. It's critical, though, in student government that you never lose focus that the reason you're there is to be an advocate for the students' side." — Smith on the fine line between administrator and student concerns

"We understand what the Vanderbilt voice is. We understand what all Vanderbilt students want, not just the typical VSG platform, not just the list of things that people put down because they think that's what people want to hear. That's not what we're about." — Williams on what distinguishes his ticket

"People in student government have the tendency to get wrapped up in the world of student government and forget about Vanderbilt students and forget about the everyday life of Vanderbilt students and forget what that means. And it's easy to do that, especially if that's one of the only things you're involved with on campus. ... I have real practical ideas about things that upperclassmen and students at Vanderbilt have been wanting to change for a long time and student government has not stepped forward and done it. " — Williams on getting his ideas accomplished