After last year's four-party gloves-off rumble for control of the University's student government that included a police investigation, this year's race is shaping up to be much quieter.

The Michigan Action Party, whose candidates won all the open LSA Student Government seats and more than half of the open Michigan Student Assembly seats in the fall election, decided on its slate of presidential and vice presidential candidates for the March election in a nominating convention Saturday night.

MSA Student General Counsel Zack Yost, a junior in the College of Engineering, won the party's nomination for president.

"I am thrilled about all of the nominations," he said. "The other nominees are great kids and the best candidates for the job."

LSA junior Mohammad Dar, current executive director of the Association of Big Ten Students, an umbrella group for student governments at Big Ten universities, will run for vice president.

In a press release, Yost and Dar said they hope to work with the City Council on the lease signing ordinance and to improve lighting in off-campus areas.

The party also nominated LSA sophomore Keith Reisinger for LSA-SG president and LSA sophomore Hannah Madoff for LSA-SG vice president.

Reisinger is the current treasurer of LSA-SG and Madoff is the LSA-SG academic relations officer.

Reisinger and Madoff said they aim to modify LSA's race and ethnicity requirement and improve study abroad programs while expanding Entr