After sprinting across H Street at 7 a.m. Friday to place their campaign posters on one of the most visible spots on campus, Student Association candidates found several of their posters are no longer hanging on the brick facade at the Marvin Center.

SA candidates expressed their discontent with the posters’ removal, saying candidates and their supporters spent their time and money on the posters that were removed.

Joint Elections Committee chair Galen Petruso said the committee is working to solve the problem. Several students who saw the posters being removed said they believed they were taken down by Marvin Center staff.

“Currently it’s not known why the posters were removed,” Petruso said.

Keaghan Ames, who is running for an Undergraduate-At Large senate seat, said he was upset to see the posters he and his friends woke up at 6 a.m. to hang taken down.

“Candidates put so much time and effort into the event and it’s now just a waste,” Ames said. “And now, it’s an unfair advantage because people can now go and put their posters up there after we fought for those influential places.”

Petruso said his best advice to candidates whose posters were removed is to put them back up.

“While it is unfortunate, there is nothing that can be done,  the best advice is for candidates to rehang posters in the open spots,” Petruso said.