Kirkwood

IUSA IS CURRENTLY WORTHLESS. I'm sure that this sounds unusual coming from someone who aspires to be the president of it, but presently IUSA does absolutely nothing for the students. The two other tickets have been involved with IUSA for the past two years. During their administration, our school's social scene has been destroyed. It is currently safer to drive home drunk than it is to walk. Our tuition has gone up and IUSA hasn't even mustered the courage to protest it. Synergy and Steel have had their chance, and have shown what they can do: completely nothing. They list their greatest achievements as: getting the illuminator in the paper, starting the student lecture series and creating student ambassadors. This is what they claim to be their best achievements in two years? That is an absolute joke. These people have done something to themselves that is worse than anything the school can do. They have ceased to believe that actual change can happen. Let me tell you something about me, I believe. They have had their chance and failed; It is time for us to have ours.\nKIRKWOOD was founded on the motto, "Work Hard. Play Hard." We are sick of the IU Police Department and the University making criminals out of innocent students. Why arrest someone for walking home a little drunk? Would the school prefer it if they drove home drunk? This school's alcohol policy is designed with the assumption that if they push hard enough, students will stop drinking. The administration needs to wake up; students have and always will drink alcohol in college. IU needs to promote safety and personal responsibility, instead of going on a witch-hunt. \nThe other tickets may want to talk about the student lecture series, but I want to talk about things that really matter -- tuition. The administration claims they are cash strapped. Then why did the Chancellor get an additional $700,000 added to her discretionary fund? Surely not for photocopies, seeing as the chancellor's office gets an additional $20,000 copying allowance. We are further annoyed to have discovered that Myles Brand did not keep his promise. In his letter to the student body regarding the tuition hike, he promised us that financial aid would be increased by 8%. We want to know why the budget shows that financial aid spending decreased! We want IU to adopt a guaranteed tuition plan. What you pay as a freshman is what you pay as a senior; it works elsewhere. Why not here? Since the administration obviously has way too much money on their hands, we figure it best not to give them any more.\nIU's academic rank has been in free fall. Our diplomas are losing value rapidly. We demand that IU rework the budget so that professors and research get the lion's share of our tuition money. Only then will IU return to the ranks of the academic elite.\nSynergy and Steel are now saying they have the answers for the problems they either created or ignored for the last two years. If you want to maintain the status quo, vote for either of them. If you want change and new people to fight for what you want, there is only one choice: KIRKWOOD.\nOn Tuesday and Wednesday, go to www.votekirkwood.com and vote to get your school back.\nEditor's note: Judd Arnold, vice president of administrations candidate for the Kirkwood ticket cited pages 12, 13, 29 and 37 of the IU 2001-2002 budget as the source of these figures. Maynard Thompson, IU vice chancellor of budgetary administration and planning, believed these figures to be incorrect.