Tuesday, April 1, 1997

Mark Wilders and Wesley Bowser USG vice presidential and presidential candidates

Wilders: sophomore, chemical engineering Bowser: junior, secondary education-social studies Quality of education: Need a program to help incoming students identify their personal education and career goals, so they will leave the University as individuals with a purpose. Student access to University budget/contracts: Budget and all contracts with corporations and government should be published in a semesterly publication that is given to all students. Student parking: Need more student parking and should be more flexible. Dorm improvements: Hand dryers in bathrooms, better smoking facilities and kitchens in select dorms.

Jeremy Nightingale and Jason Covener USG vice presidential and presidential candidates

Nightingale: sophomore, computer engineering. Student organization position: Treasurer of Penn State Young Americans for Freedom Covener: junior, international politics. Student organization position:USG Department of Political International Affairs Repealing the $25 student activity fee: This fee is blatantly unfair. It removes the power of choice from students and benefits a select few at the expense of everyone else. We are prepared to use any means necessary to repeal this fee, including filing suit in court. A fair disciplinary policy: Currently basic rights such as due process and assumption of innocence are being ignored. Punishments such as suspensions and fines are being levied against students merely on the basis of suspicion. Fair parking: We support a system where all parking spaces at the University are open to both the faculty and the students on a first-come, first-serve basis. If we can walk and take the Loop, so can the faculty. Make USG respond to student concerns: By reducing the excessive requirements necessary to hold a referendum.

Jaime Desmond and John Polk USG presidential and vice presidential candidates

Desmond: junior, Spanish. Student organization position: USG Chief of Staff Polk: junior, finance. Student organization position: vice president of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, 215 HUB Quality of teaching: Students come to Penn State to learn, but many professors are not prepared to teach. The University must re-examine who it is hiring and how well they perform in the classroom. Expensive textbooks: Textbook prices are spiraling out of control, but professors pick new editions each semester. We will establish a minimum circulation time through the University Faculty Senate so that students can minimize the costs of new books. The other side of College Avenue: Right now unfair housing laws are driving up the cost of living for students in State College. We are committed to getting students more involved in the State College Borough Council decisions. Campus food prices: The University's monopoly on campus food services means low rent and advertising costs. We will find out why we are paying $2.85 for cheese fries in the HUB, how much it actually costs them and where the profits are going.

Thane Fake and Blythe Barron USG presidential and vice presidential candidates

Fake: senior, public service. Student organization position: Former Student Government Association president at the York Campus. Barron: sophomore, division of undergraduate studies To provide the student body with a USG that is responsive toward their needs: As members of USG it is essential that we employ our diverse personal resources in order to enhance the quality of student life in our campus community. The student activity fee: By dealing honestly with the students, we should be able to cut through the rhetoric and reach a consensus on the benefits of the fee while minimizing the objections of the other tickets. Parking: We are not promoting radical change in the current system, but rather increased student input on parking and traffic issues. An open dialogue between students and the administration should result in an equitable compromise. The great disparity in quality from one dining commons to the next: Our solution would require a special executive USG commission to work exclusively with the Office of Housing and Food Services on the issues that concern the students.

Michael Landsberg and Brent Barbe USG presidential and vice presidential candidates

Landsberg: junior, history Barbe: junior, nutrition science Two-ply toilet paper: Using the student activity fee to pay for two-ply in all dorms and facilities. Nap lounge in the HUB: Where students can go during 20 to 30 minute breaks in which they cannot return to their rooms. Jacket rentals in the computer labs: The jacket supply could come from the coats left behind by other pupils. Blueberry ice cream in the University Creamery: To compete with Ben and Jerry's. Besides, that stuff's good! More rider slips at the HUB ride board: So you don't think you have found a ride only to realize that the word driver has been crossed out with rider written next to it. A 25-hour HUB: Just like the 24-hour HUB, but you get a little more each day.

Darin Loccarini and Chris Pirrotta USG presidential and vice presidential candidates

Loccarini: junior, sociology. Student organization position: Students Reinforcing Adherence In General Heterosexual Tradition president Pirrotta: junior, integrative arts The student activity fee: Students need control of the activity fee. There is no format for determining if the activities paid for are proportionate to the political consensus of the students, and we strongly feel they are not. We propose a budget for governing organizations such as USG, the Association of Residence Hall Students and the Graduate Student Association. The remainder of the fee should be distributed on the basis of points students could chose organizations they support. The allocation of funding must then correspond to the points organizations receive. USG is currently an agent of the administration not the student body: We have proven we are a force to contend with and that we will not be pushed around. We will certainly continue that trend if elected.

Eryn Kramer and David Lubkemann USG vice presidential and presidential candidates

Kramer: junior, advertising and administration of justice Lubkemann: junior, international politics Publish professor and academic adviser evaluations: Make them available to students. Student activity fee: Allow students to vote on their activity fee by choosing from a list of categories determined by student input. Keep Ritenour open on weekends Extend library hours Re-evaluate smoking policies in the dorms: Allow students to smoke if both roommates check smoking on their housing form. Open forums: Hold open forums twice a semester where representatives from the Greek and nonGreek communities can air their concerns to promote understanding and cooperation. Ethnic unity: Work to promote racial and ethnic unity by promoting joint events between diverse University organizations. Expand nonalcoholic events: Expand events with student input so people will actually participate.

Blaine Rummel and Kendra Ciesla USG presidential and vice presidential candidates

Rummel: junior, public relations. Student organization position:Vice president of Delta Phi fraternity, 128 McAllister St. Ciesla: sophomore, communications. Student organization position: USG Senate Appointments Review Board chair The grad pact: A contract between students and the University that guarantees a degree in the designated number of years for any given program. Publication of course evaluations: We plan to supplement the questionnaires with topics that address specific student concerns. Computer lab reform: Why not redistribute computers from underused labs to labs that consistently have higher populations? Or why not offer us an initial screen of where other computer labs can be found? Student-borough relations: USG and off-campus students must take responsibility to protect student housing rights. No longer can problems with borough council be blamed on miscommunication or phone tag. We will make attendance at the council meetings and other community meetings mandatory for town senators. The more visible students are at these meetings, the more receptive the council will be to our input.

Hank Saur and Christina Robbins USG presidential and vice presidential candidates

Saur: senior, health policy administration. Student organization position:Jazz Club president Robbins: junior, political science. Student organization position:USG Town Senator 865-HELP student hotline: Will serve as both a quick and easy network to University services and also as a complaint/comment/suggestion line. State of the University report: We plan to publish our report informing students on the State of the University at least once a month. Computer labs: Make computer labs more efficient. Lobbying: Lobby for more University funding in Harrisburg Elect students to borough council Smoking in dorms: Create smoking floors for the top floors in dorms.

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