Dear Editor,
We, Ryan Duffy and Daniel Neetz, would like to announce our intent to run in the upcoming election (2008), for the offices of President and Vice-President of the Associated Students of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (ASUAF). We would like to take this time to explain our stances on the various issues facing students of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Firstly, and the cornerstone of our campaign is continuing the fight for affordability started and headed by current President Jake Hamburg. Affordability is one of the issues that affect every student to some degree. As many of you may know, there is no need and merit-based scholarship program in the state of Alaska and we believe that this should be a high priority not only for the State, but also for ASUAF. The students who are struggling to maintain good grades while working a full work-week to pay for their measly twelve credits should be getting some help.
We believe that local issues here at UAF – from fees to textbook costs to parking and other costs associated with attending UAF are an important areas for ASUAF to focus on and also to that end we believe it is important to be in touch with extracurricular – intramurals, and campus life activities and programs. We think that it is the responsibility of ASUAF to keep the student body informed on what it, as an association is doing to better the lives of UAF students.
These three major issues – affordability, local issues, and keeping the student body informed as to what ASUAF is doing we plan to address, if elected, during our term – because we know they affect students the most.
Ryan Duffy and Daniel Neetz
Dear Editor,
“A riot is the language of the unheard.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
WOW, we should be rioting, or haven’t you heard? I am shocked at the lack of student interest in our environment. Alaska means to me, nature foremost. I addressed many issues that are prevalent to the UAF campus in my Innovation Challenge proposal, but was told that it was rescheduled until further notice. Nice???
If I really wanted to be a better person I should try to stop trying to change myself, I should try to change something that would benefit everybody, in so many words.
Could a new class offered to curriculum be beneficial to the university as a whole? It could enable students to create solar panels for use by the University, thus lowering our carbon footprint.
The sight of discarded plastic bottles lying all over campus has aggravated my soul. Also, would it not greatly reduce our plastic consumption if the university would ban plastic encased beverages, stopping the use of plastic bottles? Seattle has done this by banning the use of plastic water bottles in the city government.
Can we set a national university standard for what is extremely important? What will our future generations be stuck with to clean up?
I personally am a reformed waster. Let’s make UAF more responsible for its environment.
We should no longer sit idle, watching the trash pile up.
Wilson Walz
UAF Student