Platform
We believe that the student experience is unique and that it is crucial to protect and improve it. Thus, we believe that students should have a say in the decisions being made that impact their student experience.
We want to work with you to AMP UP YOUR POWER because it’s:
Your Voice, Your Vote!
- Build student presence and voice at the table during critical decision making processes
- Allow student meal points from housing to be used in residence halls and the EMU
- Ensure students are informed about the money we pay into the incidental fee and the process by which that money is allocated
- Address issues of public safety and have student voices involved in all decisions and developments
- Increase student understanding of issues surrounding “capital construction” projects on campus (Read Extended Platform)
- Work to maintain and protect student voice in all decisions being made on an administrative and student level. Students should be at the table every time decisions are made on campus.
- Ensure that students have not only a voice but also a vote on each board that they are on. This has proven to be an issue on several advisory boards that we’ve seen such as the Student Health Advisory Committee and the Student Recreation Center Board. Students need input in the final decisions being made and a real space afforded to them to disagree or agree with the administration's budgets and ideas.
- Allow student meal points from the Residence Halls to be used both in the Residence Halls and in the EMU in order to make available a variety of options to choose from and greater access to food on campus. This will also allow students to make more conscious decisions about what they are eating.
- Ensure that all students are informed about the student incidental fee, including the process by which the fee is distributed. Ensure that all students are represented by the fee and have a voice where student money is spent.
- Preserve a long history of a top-notch Incidental Fee Structure that has ensured that students have the final say in the financing process of our own fee. This will also maintain the tradition of students benefiting from the cultural and physical development of a campus that is created by the programs, departments, and contracts of the incidental fee.
- Build a strong and supportive voice for campus communities in order to protect student organizations and student programs in their endeavors to advocate for all students on campus. This support will be a result of not only financial stability and room for growth, but of following through on promises made, and of reaching out to the campus community and offering support through workshops and other outreach.
- Sustain campus safety by rejecting the establishment of a police department on campus. This will be done through lobbying the legislature and the administration about why it is important to maintain safety thought proactive, preventative steps rather than through and increase in police presence or use of unnecessary force.
- Oppose the use of tasers and guns by DPS officers in their daily activities. These instruments will only decrease safety on campus. How we are concerned about the safety on campus and wish to work with DPS in exploring all options to promote safety that is both comfortable for students and DPS.
- Ensure that all incidents of hate crimes of any kind are compiled and reported to the University and State officials. This information will allow us to understand the safety situation on campus, and to develop better methods of protecting our campus community, that avoid the use of guns, tasers or other means of excessive force.
- Increase awareness and student voice on issues like the new basketball arena and potential Recreation Center expansion to ensure that students are always informed on issues and potential costs and impacts. (Read Condensed Platform)
Your Education, Your Experience!
- Ensure students are obtaining a valuable educational experience both inside and outside of the classroom
- Increase student voice at the state and federal levels on issues that affect students
- Help students “turn out the vote” in the 2008 Presidential election
- Make sure the administration is working to recruit and retain quality faculty who will challenge us and enhance our education
- Work with judicial affairs to evaluate and change the student conduct code to ensure congruency with the mission and goals of the U of O
- Support the EMU master plan so that students save money in the long run in maintaining the delapidated building (Read Extended Platform)
- Make sure that students are gaining experiences outside of the classroom to enhance their education through educational and professional activities.
- Support the renovation of the EMU similar to the master plan with a stronger emphasis on green and sustainable construction and practices.
- Increase student voice at the state level by strengthening student lobbying of legislators on issues concerning students like lower tuition rates, fees and campus safety.
- Establish full accessibility of all campus buildings so that students have equal access to an education.
- Continue to support students in roles where they are leading organizations, managing staffs and making change for a better student experience. This support will come through student advocacy and trainings made available and accessible to all groups.
- Ensure access to higher education by opening campus to all students who are qualified to attend. This will ensure support for underrepresented, rural and lower income students.
- Generate an informed and registered student body to ensure that students vote in the 2008 elections, continuing a strong tradition of student vote work at the University of Oregon. Education and making good decisions now will ensure that our student body takes part in major decisions for our country today and tomorrow.
- Find more efficient means of parking for all of our commuter students, as well as providing more information about how to access carpools and public transportation.
- Actively work to recruit and retain well-qualified and strong professors, to ensure that students are always getting what they are paying for.
- Insist that the Student Code of Conduct is reflective of the mission and goals of the institution and does not involve unnecessary punishment. Additionally making resources available to ensure that Judicial Affairs is able to meet the needs of all students that are considered in violation of the Student Code of Conduct.
- Create equal access to all people in all classes by changing names used in class to student numbers. (Read Condensed Platform)
Your Choice, Your Future!
- Advocate for and support student sustainability initiatives on campus, including the new compost initiative in the EMU
- Ensure that all students have access to courses that will encourage them to critically engage with the world
- Make the classroom a safe and friendly environment for all students (Read Extended Platform)
- Create more sustainable practices on campus by influencing campus policy and holding the administration accountable to their commitment to sustainability that was signed last year.
- Make compost accessible in the EMU and across campus next to all recycling bins to ensure that students are able to recycle and reduce their impact on campus. This will influence students to not only to make good decisions now, but also make a habit of decreasing their ecological footprint for the rest of their lives.
- Advocate for all sustainability initiatives by supporting conferences, organizations and committees that work to create a sustainable future for students and the world at large.
- Demand that the UO respects and supports underrepresented students through recruitment initiatives that will attract additional students to campus from a variety of backgrounds.
- Make the classroom a safe and friendly environment by ensuring that professors have the skills necessary to meet the personal needs of all students. Professors should be required to attend special sessions and workshops that will help make professors responsive to student issues.
- Initiate the institutionalization of an Ethnic Studies Department and Women’s and Genders Studies Department as part of carrying out aspects of the diversity plan.
- Ensure that all students are able to access classes that will foster critical thinking about the world and engagement in society. By encouraging students to fulfill their general education requirements with courses offered in areas such as Political Science, Family and Human Services, Ethnic Studies, International Studies, Environmental Studies, and many more. The general educational experience at the U of O should expose students to areas that they might not encounter in their area of focus and that prepare them to effectively engage in the world after graduation. (Read Condensed Platform)