ASWSU revealed the two uncontested candidates for student body president and vice president at a sparsely attended Q&A Thursday. Isaac Velazquez and Grace Carpenter were announced as the candidates for ASWSU president and vice president, respectively.

This is the third consecutive year where the executive cabinet race has gone uncontested. Velazquez plans to solve ASWSU’s engagement problem by talking with first-years at rallies and orientations.

Velazquez and Carpenter said they hope to promote campus safety, encourage campus engagement and improve basic needs on campus. They have been planning these initiatives for over a year.

Velazquez said he plans to improve campus safety by installing security cameras around campus.

“One of the initiatives and our goals that we want to accomplish is just campus safety as a whole,” Velazquez said. “So making sure that there are more cameras throughout certain areas that could have different incidents [and] locks on certain doors that maybe don’t have automatic locks.”

Notably, WSU has already received a $3 million grant to do just that, according to an earlier Daily Evergreen article. The grant was announced in December 2024 as a partnership between WSU’s Office of External Affairs and Government Relations and the Department of Justice’s Technology and Equipment Program.

Velazquez is currently an all-campus senator and the engagement committee chair. Velazquez also serves on the Transit Advisory Group, which aims to find the efficacy of the Pullman transit system.

Carpenter said she is aiming to improve basic needs by getting culinary students to cook “go-boxes” for students facing food insecurity.

“If you are food insecure, they’ll have home-cooked meals,” Carpenter said. “[Students won’t] always have to go to the food pantry and they will have a warm cooked meal at home.”

Carpenter is also an all-campus senator and the internal affairs committee chair. She previously served as a freshmen delegate.

The second Q&A is scheduled for at 5 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Compton Union Building auditorium. Polls open March 4 and close March 5.