The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Issue date: 4/10/09 Section: News

Media Credit: Rachel Dembrun President-elect, Dan Gearhart, left, and vice president-elect Tim Hole stand inside the Administration Building on Thursday. Gearhart and Hole intend on promoting CSU as a "green university" by moving to a paperless billing system, creating a textbook exchange program and creating an Office of Sustainability for the university.

Posing for a photo on the spiral staircase landing in the Administration Building, hands in their pockets, student government Vice President-elect Tim Hole leans over to President-elect Dan Gearhart, still maintaining his wide photo smile and whispers, "My suit is really dirty."

"I know," Gearhart responds through his teeth as the camera flashes, "I need to get this thing dry cleaned," he says of his only suit, which followed the 21-year-old junior political science and communications major along the duo's campaign.

And even though the two newly elected leaders of the Associated Students of CSU laughed and joked with one another throughout the photo shoot, all comedy was abandoned when the topic of discussion switched from beer and skiing to politics.

"I feel like we have a lot to do," Gearhart says, comfortably positioned in an armchair. He's relaxed talking to the Collegian reporter he says because of his ease and ability to talk to anyone, a skill he learned as a military kid who moved around a lot. "Elections are over and now its time to knock this budget out."



First Introductions

Gearhart and Hole's lives, they say, are not that different from the next student.

Hole lived what he describes as a "standard Colorado childhood" and arrived at CSU after deciding against CU-Boulder because he didn't want to follow in his older brother's footsteps.

Gearhart's motives were slightly different; he chose the school that was cheapest but still farthest from his parents. He says he doesn't regret his decision for a moment and has never looked back.

Though their answers to the question of what's personally important starkly contrast -- for Gearhart it's a cold beer on a Friday night and student advocacy in Hole's mind -- the two agreed that they compliment each other's political strengths and weaknesses just as a team should.

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