IUSA tickets measure up

One University

Student Rights
• Expanding the defense of student rights on campus, specifically the need for IUSA to have a Bill of Rights to be actively enforced against the Bloomington Faculty Council.

• Informing students of the availability of student rights resources and informing them of how to utilize them.

Technology and Facilities
• To enforce professor use of the resources that are already available and paid for, such as Oncourse and Onestart.

Community Service
• Centralize volunteer opportunities.

• Have IUSA assist organizations to put on events and help them facilitate resources.

Sustainability
• Encourage the purchase in all residence hall food courts of local, organic products to benefit the community of south central Indiana while in turn making IU healthier.

Transparency and Accountability
• Allow the entire student body to know what the administration is doing and keep it accountable for its actions.

ONE University Quote:
Q: What makes your ticket stand out from all the other tickets?

A: “We commend the other two tickets for coming up with well thought-out platforms. The problem is that they are out of touch. Btown took a lot of effort to go to talk to professors and faculty all over campus to get good ideas, and that is fine. They should have a part in this. But we are a student government. Our first responsibility is to find out what the students think, and that is what we did. We went around to students sitting in the Union and said, ‘What can we do as a student government to improve your life?’ no matter how mundane that is.”

–Second-year law student Ben Blair, presidential candidate of ONE University



BTOWN

Bikes
• Bike rental program in which bikes can be picked up and dropped off with ID swipe stations at various locations around campus.

Books
• Cheaper books accomplished through tax-free weekend legislation.

• Encourage IU faculty to turn in book lists to bookstores earlier to save students $1 million a year.

Fall Break
• Establish a permanent fall break recommended on the Monday and Tuesday during the week of Thanksgiving rather than pushing for a Thursday and Friday fall break and failing.

Basketball Cameras
• To have gym cameras broadcasting a low-resolution video to the IUSA Web site showing live, busy areas at the Student Recreational Sports Center and the Health, Physical Education, and Recreation building to let students know when the gyms are crowded.

Btown Express Buses
• Transportation would provide safe and efficient ways to get to and from IU basketball and football games.

Btown Quote:
Q: What makes your ticket stand out from all the other tickets?

A: “IUSA has failed in the past to seek out the key administrators who know whether or not the initiatives are feasible. Along with our five B’s, we have initiatives we realize are not feasible because of meeting with these administrators. We are the only ticket that lists initiatives we don’t think are necessarily feasible.”

–Junior Peter SerVaas, presidential candidate for Btown



Red-Hot

Connect IU

• $1 million to $2 million of state transportation funds available for the campus bus system from state transport funds if IU applied for it – an increase would allow for more buses and routes, insulate the system from having to raise fees or cut service as gas prices continue to rise (Red-Hot ticket met with Operations Manager of the IU Bus System, Perry Maull).

• “Virtual Student Union,” a central, student-oriented Web site that would integrate what is now an array of Web sites for various services and connect IU students.

• Provide services such as online room reservations for campus space.

Sustain IU

• Furthering long-term sustainable solutions and enacting short-term improvements such as a consistent color-coding system for recycling across campus and water-saving showerheads.

Develop IU

• Address space issues at the Student Recreational Sports Center and the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation.

• Short-term: Provide efficient ways to make better use of space that is already there, such as putting more machines on the perimeter of classrooms.

Your IU

• Create a Long-Term Solutions Committee to help consider issues that will take more than one year and many administrations to fully address.

• Continue to be accessible to students while in office.

Red-Hot Quote:
Q: What makes your ticket stand out from all the other tickets?

A:  “It is not just a greek campaign. It is not just an off-campus campaign. This is IU, and we hear all of IU’s voice for this to be IU’s ticket.”

–Junior Pat Rodgers, Red-Hot’s candidate for Treasurer