The Dutzik/Glazier ticket plans a new USG department to organize lobbying trips to Harrisburg and aims to address student financial concerns by eliminating transcript and drop-add fees and forming a "job bank" of possible employment for students.

"The transcript fee and drop/add fee are used as revenues," Kelly Glazier said. "We see these as services to the students, not something the University should be making money off of."

"USG has got to get into the mode of saying we can only do so much," Tony Dutzik said. "USG needs to expand its horizon of issues it can cover. We have a broad-based agenda and a broad-based platform."

The Dutzik/Glazier administration will address academic concerns including class size, advising, teaching assistant proficiency, over-demanded classes and the three-credit physical education requirement.

"People who are teaching classes with 800 people aren't pleased about the fact," Dutzik said. "We want to work with faculty and administrators so you can actually work and talk with professors."

Dutzik added his administration will work on a course selector guide with the help of Academic Assembly.

"Students have a grapevine to find out about classes," Dutzik said. "This would formalize the grapevine."

Dutzik said he plans to work with other schools and the University administration for higher appropriations from the state.

His administration would create a department of political activities in USG to organize lobbying trips, letter-writing campaigns and petition drives.

"The group will be charged with maintaining contact with what is going on in the state, locally and at the national level," Dutzik said.

To address minority concerns, Dutzik and Glazier plan to try to prompt the University to make the construction of the Paul Robeson Cultural Center one of its top priorities. Other goals include: working with administrators to enhance recruitment and retention, supporting curricular integration and pressuring administrators to add "sexual orientation" to the University's statement of non-discrimination.

The candidates say they also want to address women's concerns by keeping the USG Department of Women's Concerns strong, pushing administrators to fulfill the recommendations of the Childcare Taskforce and working with Ritenour Health Center to improve women's health care.

Dutzik, a resident of McKees Rocks, served as a USG Senator and is chairman of the Administrative Contact Committee and a liaison to the Lesbian and Gay Student Alliance and University Health Services. He is also a member of Omicron Delta Kappa honor society and the University Scholars Program. Previously, he served as Penn State College Democrats executive vice president and as the northwest regional coordinator for the Pennsylvania Federation of College Democrats.

Glazier, a resident of Springfield and a USG senator, serves on the President's Council for Undergraduate Recruitment and Retention and is a teaching assistant for a business enterprise class.