UC officials are paid well while others are left
behind
As the University of California blames state budget cuts for
raising student fees and freezing salaries for its lowest-paid
employees, we discover that its top ranks have quietly received
$871 million in compensation above their salaries last year
� more than enough to cover the increase in
student fees!
I am a library assistant working in the Young Research Library.
You can thank me and my co-workers for providing access to books,
electronic resources, help with research, and other kinds of
academic support to UCLA undergraduate and graduate students.
Library assistant salaries at the UC system currently lag more than
30 percent behind the California State University system. Strangely
enough, UC President Robert Dynes sees no urgency in addressing
this market inequity.
Unlike Dynes� cronies, we have received no
extra compensation, no
�stipends,� no
�bonuses,� no
�relocation allowances,� and no
help with rent or car payments. To add insult to injury, while
Chancellor Albert Carnesale gets free $11,000 season tickets to the
Hollywood Bowl, I have to pay for my own Netflix subscription.
Dynes has made a vague commitment to consider the possibility of
doing something, eventually, to partially address the hardships
faced by UC�s lowest-paid workers. Until that day,
in the interest of accuracy, I�d like to suggest
that we change the UC motto to �Fiat
bucks.�
Claudia Horning UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata
Center
Frat policies in place to curb out-of-control parties
Fraternity policies, as well as guidelines their
members� representatives have passed, are
misinterpreted as �exclusionary�
(�Frat parties perpetuate
exclusion,� Nov. 14). These guidelines are meant
to help keep UCLA as safe as possible. At any fraternity event, we
have guidelines that require guest lists and security to ensure the
event does not get out of hand. A group patrols house events to
ensure these policies are being followed. By adhering to these
policies, we are able to take a preemptive stance to make the
campus safer.
If UCLA fraternities sponsor open parties, UCLA may turn into a
version of Santa Barbara�s Isla Vista. While many
of you may feel this is what you want, look at what Isla Vista has
gone through. A freshman at an open party drove his car down a
crowded street, killing four people. Another was assaulted while
others watched. UCSB has taken steps to curb these open parties,
such as a $50,000 grant to local law enforcement to increase its
presence.
The UCSB Daily Nexus editor in chief wrote that these images
�keep (UCSB) from the pantheon of ivy-covered,
serious and high-minded universities,� a position
UCLA holds to many students, alumni and faculty and UCLA hopefuls.
So while we may not be able to risk our chapters�
lives (along with UCLA�s image) to get you that
�lukewarm beer,� you so crave, we
ask that you respect the measures we have taken to protect the name
and safety of UCLA and its fraternities.
Chris Hatfield Interfraternity Council
president