In political debates, it is rare that every single issue that candidates think should be addressed gets brought up.
That was the case Thursday night during the first of two scheduled Student Government Association presidential debates.
Incumbent Jayson Manship was disappointed that public safety was left out of the debate, while challenger Ben Tietz had hoped to talk about his position on SGA co-sponsoring events with other student organizations.
Both topics are of great relevance to Ball State students, and each candidate's position on these issues will most likely affect how some students vote in the upcoming election.
It is possible that neither issue will be brought up at the next debate. Therefore, it is crucial for each candidate and his slate to bring them to the attention of the student population by way of each's own campaigning to both individual students and student organizations.
Of course, just talking about the problems is only half the battle.
Manship and Tietz must make clear the solutions that they plan to implement to help correct the troubles that they feel are keeping Ball State from being the best university it can possibly be.
With less than two weeks until the election, it is important that the candidates tell those who will be voting not only what is broke, but how they will fix it.