With the upcoming Duke Student Government elections this week, each candidate seems to place their focus on change. Change from the old boy’s club, change from the Angier B. Duke scholars and even change from the seriousness of a typical campaign.

One candidate’s Web site even looks strikingly similar to Barack Obama’s.

But what seems to be lacking is a focus on feasible ideas and initiatives to better the University.

Several of the candidates have mentioned creating space for organizations that currently does not exist. But I wonder how a student candidate can create or secure an area large enough for 400 undergraduate sorority members on a campus that is already so stressed for space.

In addition, the promise of being able to use food points off campus has been brought up, apparently unsuccessfully, in the past, and likely will be discussed again in the future.

Why don’t candidates begin discussing issues that both matter to students, and those that are able to be achieved—who wouldn’t like to see more convenient e-print or better hours at the Great Hall?

But until students start hearing about issues that don’t seem so far-fetched, we might continue to see low voter turnout and votes going to the candidate with the most prominent banners hanging on main quad.

-Joe Clark, Health and Science Editor