At the Republicans’ meeting, Calley spoke at length about getting college students more engaged in politics as a whole and in Michigan’s upcoming elections.

“There’s never enough hands to run a statewide campaign,” Calley said. “As for how to get involved, there’s a lot of different ways. Right now, as we are heading into the campaign (season), there are local, state, legislative, and statewide races all happening right now and there are all kinds of room for involvement. It might be internships directly on the campaign, volunteering on campaign events, it can be door-to-door activities.”

Calley urged members of the student organization “to be that voice of a conservative answer to Michigan’s biggest problems,” by being “advocates right on campus.”

President Lisa Jankowski said the college republicans had some big goals for the year.

“We definitely want to get students more involved on campus. We want to make sure Republicans and conservatives that are on campus know that there is a group out there for them if they want to get involved. We want to get all our candidates elected so we want to get our students involved in those campaigns.”

Calley stressed the importance of future-oriented policies as an important way to choose between candidates.

“Are the candidates talking about what is possible, about the future, or are they talking about returning to policies of the past? And the policies of our past were not good for our students,” he said, noting policies that targeted students and their debt.

In the first year of Snyder’s administration, MSU’s funding from the state government was cut 15 percent when Michigan faced a more than $1 billion deficit.

Since then, despite a surplus in the state government’s budget, funding has not returned to previous levels, cuts that Snyder’s opponent, Democrat Mark Schauer, has highlighted.