Jonathan Meyer.

Do you remember my “Call to Campaign” story two weeks ago? Here’s how that turned out.

Owen and I set out as two people with less experience than the other candidates, yet we were hungry as ever to make a positive impact at Warburg College. Our whole campaign was centered around listening to students. We didn’t just believe that, we went door-to-door and dorm building to dorm building and spoke to groups on campus. We both believe leaders should come to you. The first week of our campaign was dedicated to finding problems that needed addressed in the student body. We did this by having much needed conversations and asking questions. Things that we felt had been missed in recent times.

On Tuesday and Thursday last week, we participated in debates. We fleshed our policy out with the other two groups running. We had interesting dialogue and exchanged what ideas we had for this campus moving forward.

This Tuesday was Election Day, something that after two long weeks of campaigning felt unreal. This day that we had dreamed of was finally here. Voting was open for 24 hours, from midnight to midnight, if you will. When it was all said and done we received a call from the current president saying we didn’t win. While not the call we wanted, we still garnered the second most votes and very nearly forced a run off election. Our ideas and policies, which we released to the public in a two page document, had resonated and the other campaigns picked up on our ideas. Though we didn’t win the election, our ideas and commitment to change ultimately won regardless of the outcome. While disappointed, I’m not defeated. The work we’ve done to improve our college does not stop with an election loss.

Looking at the positives, I’m sure my editor Rob will appreciate the fact I’m getting better at talking to random people. Through life lessons, putting myself through scrutiny, and being known as “the Jesus dude” on the college’s anonymous message board, I’ve learned a lot from this venture into school-wide politics.

Until the next election, I’m Just Jonathan.