The Rae/Bindseil ticket promises to gain representation on the University Tenure Review Board to decide who receives permanent teaching status and to organize lobbying efforts for increased education funding.

"It is (the Undergraduate Student Government's) job to serve the students," Rae said. "We tried to come up with a platform that we thought would help student concerns."

"We think more students would like to see more input on the tenure review board," Rae said. "Right now, the only input students are involved with is semester evaluation forms."

Rae and Bindseil said they would push for student opinion by pressuring administrators and faculty to allow student evaluations to be given to students and then presented to the tenure board by students.

Students should be able to evaluate their instructors mid-semester as well as at the end of a semester, Rae said.

Rae said his other main goal is organizing lobby efforts in Harrisburg for increased education funding.

"Students mainly are one of the most underused forms of keeping contact with representatives in Harrisburg and Washington," Bindseil said. "The legislators forget about us. This way we let them know we're around and we know what they're doing."

Encouraging students to go to Harrisburg and send letters are the best ways to lobby legislators, Rae said.

The Rae and Bindseil administration also plans to increase student parking by proposing the University make the planned parking ramp behind Eisenhower auditorium a student parking lot and retaining parking lot 80.

Rae added facility parking lots should be opened at earlier times to students, specifically the library.

"We used to have high prices and used to have a reasonably close spot," Bindseil said. "Now you're paying higher prices and you're parking further and further away."

Rae and Bindseil added that they will involve more students by attending area meeting and scheduling special office hours, including a description of the USG and its departments in the freshman orientation handbook and distributing a monthly newsletter.

"The purpose of college is to meet up with new experiences," Rae said. "By improving University diversity, you're improving the quality of life."

The Rae/Bindseil ticket will address minority concerns by prioritizing the minority retention rate, pressuring the administration for a new Paul Robeson Cultural Center, encouraging administrators to implement a diversity course and establishing a fair housing ordinance within the borough.

Rae, a resident of Blue Bell, has been a member of the USG Supreme Court for the past three years. Previously, as an East Halls senator, he served on the Senate Appointment and Review Board and the Strategic Analysis Research Team.

Bindseil, a resident of Erie, serves on the Speaker Committee of the Department of Political and International Affairs and participates in the Model United Nations.