Running on a platform intended to buck administrative control over student body elections, Scott Stephenson said he intends to use his campaign to make a statement.

The candidate is a part-time student, enrolled in three credit hours for the semester.

He works a full-time job in the life insurance industry and has a five-year-old daughter.

Stephenson, who graduated with a degree in economics last year, said he is running on behalf of the more than 7,000 people enrolled as part-time students at the University.

“They have a voice too,” he said.

According to Stephenson, depriving the part-time students, who have been threatened of having their participation in Student Government stripped, would be unfair.

The Student Senate impeached Stephenson in 2005 over his involvement in the theft of vouchers allotted to students for football and basketball games.

The former senator was also impeached this semester due to an excessive number of absences. He said he was able to take part in organizing basketball campout, but resigned after the impeachment proceedings were underway.

Stephenson said his friends originally considered his candidacy a joke, but it developed following the recent discussion over whether or not part-time students should be eligible to run and vote in the elections.

“This is Student Government, not administration government,” he said. “It’s what we make it — the administration is here for oversight, not dictatorship.”

Although he said he is taking his platform seriously, Stephenson admitted that he “would be very surprised to get elected.”