Note (27 FEB): Jacob Hill has replied to this analysis to clarify the recruitment/retainment fund proposal. As a result, the possible additional awards mentioned at the end of this analysis are no longer forseeable. In addition to this clarification, he has sent me his website address.

Finally...the last one (of the presidential candidates, anyway).

Jacob Hill comes across as very proactive and willing to give out details. Kudos for this. Knowing the policies for which one stands is a good first step, so he doesn't get a Dole Award. Now where was that website? He, like Cade Bernsen, doesn't have one.

Hill's first platform is "University Unification", calling for ASUA to "[unify] the student body by raising the awareness of programs and services as well as promoting a dialogue among organizations." How is a question, but in this case it's excusable. It is likely that all candidates know about the problem of ASUA's visibility, and the real solution is to simply get out there. Hill addresses this issue later on.

The second platform is "Students Fund for Professional Retainment and Recruitment," meaning that ASUA will facilitate a fund to "pay teachers to stay or come to the most under funded [sic] colleges at the university." The goal is two million dollars. I only give out the Dole Award for overall ambiguity, not ambiguity on one issue alone. I will be personally contacting Mr. Hill to ask exactly how ASUA expects to facilitate the fund, as this smells like encroachment upon economic freedom.

Like some other candidates, Hill also addresses safety, but unlike others give specifics. He proposes safety cameras in every parking garage and large parking lot on campus. This may cost money, but it's definitely a rational way of spending it. I would give him something of a Big Brother award if he proposed hallway cameras, but this is rational.

Hill hints vagueness by naming his fourth platform "Proactive Problem Solving" but manages to get specific by proposing a weekly town hall style forum to hear student concerns. This is the explanation of the first platform as mentioned earlier.

He concludes with "Finishing Unfinished Business" with his largest, though insignificant, hint of vagueness. He commends the current administration (Chapman), but fails to point out what he liked about it.

On 27 FEB, Jacob Hill's Dead End Award was replaced with the LMTH Award after notifying us via email coorespondence of his website. The LMTH Award is in merit of not having a clear way of finding the website as well as having the page title "Jacob hill for class President [sic, emphasis added]."