Tissue is the issue for Lindeman ’11

The main problem USG presidential candidate Jack Lindeman ’11 would like to fix is campus toilet paper, he said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. Lindeman is interested in pushing for more comfortable two-ply toilet paper on campus, he explained.

“Basically, I decided to run because over the past two-and-a-half years, I have had one major complaint about Princeton. That is the quality of toilet paper,” he said in an e-mail.

Though “the issue for tissue” may not seem like the most important one to the student body, it’s only a starting point for Lindeman’s platform, he added.

For Lindeman, the toilet paper platform relates to a desire to make the USG as a whole more approachable to students.

“I want to change the USG from what seems like this Princeton oligarchy and make it more accessible to the average Princeton student,” he added.

Lindeman brought up the toilet paper problem and the idea of running for president with friends and received positive feedback, he said.

“The USG is not in touch with actual daily problems of students which have the ability to be solved,” Lindeman said.

If elected, Lindeman said he hopes to establish a “student comfort panel.” This panel would survey students about grievances that they felt could be fixed easily.

“What started out as an idea for looking into softer toilet paper — a panel that will host surveys and establish a discussion board online — started to take on other ideas,” he said.

Lindeman wants to move beyond the typical grade deflation and “student relations” complaints and focus on “actual down-to-earth problems that do not have ambiguous goals or ways to measure success,” he added.

Though he has never served on the USG, his inexperience will benefit him, Lindeman said. “I’m connected with the average student, because I am the average student,” he added.

Lindeman will have an “old-fashioned” campaign, he said. “I won’t establish a website, but I will talk to the students,” he explained. “I may stand up on a box with a megaphone.”

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“Throughout this campaign, I’ve felt increasingly strongly about this notion that the USG is not accessible, that it is a closed group of people who do not want any new or different students becoming a part of it,” he added.

Lindeman said he is ready to usher in a new era at the USG, “one that listens to the students and actually enacts legislation that will improve their lives on a day-to-day basis,” he explained.

One thing is certain: If Jack Lindeman is elected, Princeton students can look forward to the possibility of two-ply.

This is the second of a series of articles on the candidates for USG president.