Thursday, April 30, 1998
Martin Chippas
PRESIDENT
For the past three years the Students First! slate that has
controlled USAC has neglected their responsibility to improve the
quality of educational life for everyone at UCLA. They have spent
much of the million-plus dollars they receive from the fees that
every undergraduate must mandatorily pay on lobbying for their own
political causes, raising their own pay and engaging in such
irrational activities as blocking off traffic on Wilshire Boulevard
and demanding that Chancellor Carnesale violate California law.
In the interest of ending this lunacy I am running for USAC
president on the Sanity slate. If elected I, and all of the slate
members, plan to do the following:
We will repeal the stipend increase passed by the current
members of USAC and will require that all future stipend increases
be approved by a vote of the entire student body.
We will greatly reduce the amount of mandatory student fees and
will require all future increases to be approved by the entire
student body.
We believe that forcing students to pay for political causes
they may or may not believe in is wrong and that none of the
revenue that USAC receives should be used for such activities. We
believe this money should go toward activities benefiting all
students, like cultural events, health, campus safety and the
alleviation of parking and transportation problems.
Currently decisions of the Judicial Board can and have been
overturned by USAC. The Sanity slate will make the J-Board
independent.
Martin Chippas