Tuesday, February 21, 2006
(sticker)I voted
So, I voted on our hideous fee increases today. In case you were wondering, I voted against increasing fees. Sadly, I feel I'm going to be in the minority, at least for the Class Pass. There's some chance the Career Center referendum will fail, mainly because the Class Pass will likely draw a lot of voters who just don't care. Unfortunately, once again, the information provided on the Career Center voting page is heavily biased towards the fee increase. At the top, they list all of the face-to-face services supposedly provided by the Career Center, with some wording that suggests, but doesn't directly state, that passing this fee will improve or create these services. Of course, passing the fee will not improve services, it will only increase crowds now that the lazy, not-particularly-interested people will start to show up.
Finally, our student government tries to do something for students. Since they are the ASUC, though, they fail.
"The advertisements that we have seen in the Daily Cal and the signs in front of the library present only one point of view and make it seem as if the university endorses the referendum," [ASUC Prez Manny Buenrostro] said.
Both [ASUC Academic Affairs Veep Jason Dixson] and Buenrostro pointed to prior elections where they said the sponsor of the referendum presented a more informative, unbiased campaign.
While it's nice for them to raise these issues, they haven't been raised before. They weren't raised for the Temina Madon "Waah, waah, pay fifty bucks a semester, waah" fee increase. You get the impression that they only care about this issue now that something they don't want to see pass is up for vote. It puts them is a piss-poor bargaining position. If, on the other hand, the ASUC had balls and actually stood up for students against fee increases, they could fight to change the process by which the fees are raised, and then they'd have legs to stand on. This picky "Oh, wait, now that it might hurt me I'm opposed" shit just doesn't work.
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