Both candidates for Marquette Student Government president expressed their enthusiasm for serving the Marquette student body Monday night in a debate, but they differed in spending goals for MUSG's reserve fund.

About 70 people attended the second and final debate before the election Wednesday, in which Dan Calandriello, junior in the College of Business Adminstration, and running mate Kristen Kamm, a junior in the College of Health Sciences, focused on the necessity of MUSG being a body that "enables student leaders."

Calandriello promised to focus on issues such as student safety, making the student body more aware of MUSG spending and opening communication between MUSG and the general student body.

College of Communication junior Jamie Wu and College of Arts & Sciences junior Anna Titulaer highlighted wanting to strengthen MUSG as a whole, and "standing behind the students 110 percent and representing students' wants to the administration."

Two main topics of the debate were the MUSG reserve fund, which has accumulated just over $130,000, and working toward gaining student representation on the Marquette board of trustees.

"The students really want representation on the board of trustees; that's a fight worth fighting and I intend to fight it," Calandriello said.

Wu said that what Marquette really needs is a student government that "listens to the students and takes the wants of the students to the administration. If Marquette wants representation on the board of trustees then that's what we'll work for… I believe in student representation and think it's time students take ownership for the school they pay to attend."

Wu said student representation on the board of trustees is far off and to obtain the goal she would institute a student petition, but in the meantime she plans on "taking a realistic approach and working with what we have right now and trying to set up student lunches with board members like the lunches (University President the Rev. Robert Wild) has with students."

Wu also said she plans on relying on student ideas when spending the MUSG reserve, whereas Calandriello and Kamm have plans of supporting the construction of Norris Park.

"I am proposing a $10,000 donation for Norris Park construction, which is on 18th Street and Kilbourn Street, to go to installing lights and laying sod," he said. "I'm also proposing updating workout facilities in the Rec Center."

According to College of Arts & Sciences junior Matt Cashman, Wu and Titulaer won the debate.

"I came into the debate not knowing who I was going to vote for, and I really think Calandriello and Kamm won the first debate, but the Wu campaign seemed more eloquent and polished tonight… I think they won the debate."