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Open Letter to Students

University of Denver Students,

Last year we ran together for AUSA President and Vice President. While we did not win, we have both kept our promises to maintain our involvement, push for change, and make the University of Denver a better place. We also said that we would hold our election opponents responsible for carrying out their platform.

Antoine Perretta and Jim Francescon have worked hard this year to meet the goals they promised to all of us. We are happy to say that we believe in their successes.

All of us have worked together throughout the year. Several months ago, we began discussing this year’s USG (the name was changed this year) elections. During last week’s election we endorsed Jim Francescon and Felipe Diaz for USG President and Vice President.

Over the past several months, we have worked with Jim and Felipe as they developed their platform. All of us have the same overarching goal: to unite and connect our campus. We know that Jim and Felipe will be successful in this endeavor.

Jim and Felipe are proven leaders who have the experience, dedication, and connections necessary to fulfill their platform. They will succeed in creating the lasting campus improvements we need.

 Some of our past supporters may not have agreed with our choice to support Jim and Felipe. We encourage you to contact us. Let’s talk about why we believe Jim and Felipe are the high quality leaders DU needs and deserves. Now that they have won, it is important that we all come together and listen to what each of us needs in our student government.

Whether or not you support the winners of last week’s USG elections, get involved. Have your voices heard. Work with your student representatives to hold them accountable in fulfilling their platforms and to shape DU into the institution you want it to be.

Joel Portman & Javier Ogaz

Joel Portman can be contacted at jportman@du.edu and Javier Ogaz can be contacted at  jogaz@du.edu.