Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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continued from 19 Of course you get to know your running mate during the election, but as a brother-sister pair, they already knew each other and that played a huge role in their campaigning, Wagner said. Katie is more of the quiet leader, and Lucas is more out there and the voice, and I think that really works. Trust was the main factor that drove Lucas to ask Katie to be his running mate in the election, he said. We ' re not really a traditional brother- sister pairing; we don ' t share a lot in common, Lucas said. We ' re very complementary, and our strengths and weaknesses are very different. Katie, senior in animal sciences and industry, said she was initially shocked when Lucas asked her to run with him. I had quite a few reservations at first, until I figured out what his plans were, Katie said. The thing that I was concerned about was that we hadn ' t been in SGA before; the whole brother-sister thing wasn ' t a main topic. Lucas and Katie ' s mother, Patsy, said the leadership roles did not affect Lucas and Katie ' s relationship. They ' re brother and sister, and sometimes they get along and sometimes they don ' t, Patsy said. That ' s typical of any brother and sister Lucas said family members didn ' t treat him or Katie any differently during the election. To be honest, the way that they treated us was that they really didn ' t care if we won or lost, he said. Obviously, they hoped for the best, but they weren ' t going to treat us any different, and we were still going to be the same people to them. After culling Katie and her liioiulson his cell (ilicino, Lucas waits U r his sister to arrive lor An Hour of AccouiUahilily. Katie was stuck in tralhc on Bluemont Avenue. She arrived 20 minutes after her older l rother. i ' liristcphcr Hdiicwinckel Not all election memories were pleasant for the family — Patsy said she remembered crying about offensive comments made about Lucas and Katie in the Collegian ' s Fourum in the election ' s aftermath. It hurt, and it was hard, Patsy said. I talked to Lucas, and he said, ' It ' s just the Fourum, and it ' s just kids being kids, ' but it still hurts sometimes. SUNDAY During the Sunday noon-hour, Lucas and Katie went on the air to address issues students faced. They took turns talking about upcoming events at the university and answered calls from listeners. Katie said one disadvantage to working with her brother was that each expected so much from the other. It ' s hard, since we hadn ' t been in SGA before, for him to expect so much out of me as far as daily duties, Katie said. A lot of it was just trying to get used to what we were supposed to be doing and what was expected out of us. Lucas said he agreed the competition between them was the biggest detractor You always want to do better than your siblings, he said. It ' s a completely different environment when you ' re both going after the same goal. Overall, Katie said she and Lucas were past worrying about how each would come off to the other We ' re pretty secure in who we are and what we believe in, she said. It doesn ' t matter how you change it — we ' re always going to be brother and sister, and we ' re not going to have a falling out over this. a c BO Bl to 3 a. 21

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l : 4 V r - .-.--A Si • K » 1 Wl J ) ) ) . 5 Discussing the evening ' s agenda, Katie and Lucas talk with Matt Wagner, privilege fee chair, and Gayle Spencer, Office of Student Activities and Services coordinator, as they sit in a weekly Student Senate meeting. Spencer said she had not previously seen a brother and sister presidential pair during her 28 years in higher education. Christopher Hanewiiickel In KSDB-FM91.9 ' s radio station, sister Kara, niece Olivia, mom Patsy and niece Madeline, listen to Katie address the student body on the Maddys ' weekly show An Hour of Accountability. We were listening (to the radio) and we started jumping up and down and crying, Kara said about finding out Lucas and Katie had won the election on March 8, 2006. Christopher Hanewinckel U ' ' M 20

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photo illustration by Christopher Hanewinckel