Beetle,

If you would like more details on my plan for election reform, I encourage you to visit my website, EricForPresident.org. You can also find my vision for the office, which goes far beyond the 5 lines in the Daily Cal.

Eric Marshall
ASUC Presidential Candidate
EricForPresident.org
 

We are seeing such a degeneration of the ASUC into a high school government that lacks real power and becomes too much of a joke for students to take seriously.

Dmitri is taking to the office of the President something that really won't help. It's simply another voice to the mixed opinions on the sensitive issue of affirmative action that has seen multiple court cases and a specific initiative prohibiting its use by the University. The ASUC President is simply not an influential voice in that debate.

Travis has goals that are realistic, and unfortunately his is the only meaningful goals that are realistic. If there were another candidate with realistic goals, I would perhaps choose that one.

Eric seeks to do too much. Unfortunately with the lack of continuity in the ASUC Government, there simply isn't time, nor is there a great desire to push for Senatorial districts and a complex bureaucracy of committees.

Ilana wants to turn UC Berkeley back into high school. I mean, monthly barbeques and big entertainment events are great and all, but is this the dream that we want heading the ASUC?

Van actually doesn't seem too bad. Two statements, work on Lower Sproul development and seismic upgrades to Eshleman with the Chancellor, seem like reasonable goals for the Office of the President. He will learn in short order that people aren't all that excited about city council meetings, especially when there aren't issues pertinent to student agendas. He kinda goes off track with the multicultural center, which I really don't understand. Doesn't Lower Sproul act as a de facto multicultural center right now?

Joe is funny, and an audit would seem to make sense. I think the ASUC books are pretty transparent. I would prefer a major audit of the student groups that take the most money. I've certainly seen my share of "We prefer cash" transactions in my clubs so as to get unreported funding for otherwise strictly prohibited purchases.

I wish you'd just run seriously Beetle, the best leaders are the ones who don't want to lead.
 

Everyone's picture makes them look like a model except yours, Beetle, lol.

Jeremy, since you've known Travis Garcia for so long (you mentioned going to high school together elsewhere, I think), I think you are blinded to how his ideas are both bad and unrealistic. Bad -- as Beetle mentioned, why would you want to slow down the GBC lines even more by taking credit cards? Unrealistic -- Does Travis have any idea how much it would cost to keep Moffitt open 24 hours, and how many people would actually use it? Shouldn't his proposal be to survey users and find out how much support there is for that idea -- rather than to just say, yeah, we need a 24-hour Moffitt?

As for the multicultural center, it has not really materialized despite being temporarily located in Heller Lounge. It is a legacy goal from the twLF hunger strike and encampment in 1999. That whole episode was a big deal at the time, drawing widespread campus sympathy, so I'm glad the goal is not being dropped.
 

By the way, I do think there should be a 24-hour study space on campus, just not Moffitt. The Daily Cal suggested making the Student Learning Center open 24 hours a couple years ago, and I think that makes sense.
 

C,

I agree with that. I think that any 24-hour space should also be integrated with a saftey center that has bear-walkers on hand.