Monday, September 22, 2003
Slap!
Hey, someone noticed! Spending student money on prop 54 is, you know, illegal. And SA makes a strong statement that it'll stand by the people with ""My fear is that we might be marginalizing students who don't support the campaign," said Student Action senator Lauren Hubbert." Oh, right, still spineless.
Anyway, Jessica Quindel comes first:
"The University cannot sponsor or fund religious activities, and cannot sponsor or fund political activities," the policy states.
But Quindel said because the fees are paid to the assembly, they are exempt from university regulations.
That seems rather doubtful. The funds are collected for the assembly only on the authrority of the university administration, and by extension, the UC Regents. Thus, monies collected for GA or ASUC are still bound by the same rules as the Regents are.
Quindel said there was virtually no opposition in the assembly when the money was allocated.
Big whoop. The war on Afghanistan went with virtually no opposition, surely you don't have a problem with that, either.
She also pointed out that if students are unhappy with how their fees are spent, they can petition for a refund.
Oooh. Now I'm intrigued. I remember hearing something similar concerning ASUC funds. If anyone has any information about how one could go about this, please point it out. It'd be a great public service to let people know how they can reclaim their money.
"We knew it was something we could not allow to pass," (Anu) Joshi said.
So, we felt it was okay to use students and the university as our pulpit to see our own personal opinions go into politics.
Curiosly devoid in this article, though, is news about who is bringing this claim up (Marcia Riley and the Student Affairs Office are mentioned, but not especially strongly). It appears that the Daily Cal did independent research to reach this conclusion (that prop 54 spending is in violation of codes), but that's very unlike the Daily Cal, or any legitimate newspaper, for that matter. Hopefully we can rely on Paul LaFata to round up some help to pound CalSERVE's illegal waste of student funds into the ground. But we all know we can't.
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