Paul Dower, 20, junior, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Dower is the editor-in-chief for The Campus. He is studying film production, and started in journalism his freshman year and has developed a passion for it ever since.

If I had the chance to interview the incoming president, I’m not exactly sure what I wouldn’t ask him. The choice between the current president and Republican candidate Donald Trump and former vice president and Democratic candidate Joe Biden left me with a sense of dread for the upcoming election. I honestly had no drive to vote at all. I wanted no part in deciding between two options that revolted me.

That was until I heard the first presidential debate. It was one of most embarrassing things I have witnessed in a long time, but it made me realize how alarming the situation we find ourselves in truly is. Over the past four years, America has become more divided than I have ever seen in my lifetime, which I will admit has not been a very long time, and, whether his fault or not, our president has done little to nothing to try to relieve the tensions in our country.

The first and most important thing I have to ask the incoming president is what will he do to stop the political divide happening in our country. I would want to know what he thinks of the divide and what the root causes of the divide is.

Another topic I would like to discuss with the incoming president is the rising skepticism for our institutions in our country. A healthy amount of skepticism is beneficial to any system, especially in America, but there is a difference between healthy skepticism and general mistrust for informative institutions. We have seen a number of people that believe scientific institutes are actively lying to support some kind of political agenda, or that journalists are purposefully lying and misleading the public to support or demonize certain candidates. I’m not doubting this sort of thing is happening, there are several cases where it has, but those cases are few and far between. I would love to talk to the future president about ways these institutions can regain the trust of the civilians and what might have caused it to be that way in the first place.