Two microphones were waiting for Associated Students presidential candidates Brandon Foley and Lorena Mejia inside the Cesar Chavez Student Center on Wednesday afternoon. Students filled the interior and waited for the candidates to prove themselves in becoming San Francisco State University’s next AS president. Brandon Foley, the incumbent president and challenger Lorena Mejia, the current AS vice president of finance, both took the stage and answered questions regarding enrollment decline, class cuts, budget deficits and how they would take accountability for students. With proposed cuts to California State University budgets, a proposed $375.2 million by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, SFSU is weighing the gravity of faculty and course reductions. “We are facing difficult times, but that does not mean that we’re a bad university,” Mejia says. “The way that we’re able to maintain students is by listening to what they’re interested in, listening to what they want, so we can implemen...