Tuesday, 4/22/97 GSA elections Candidate for External Vice
President: Robert Davenport
Robert Davenport (film and television) Candidate for vice
president-external affairs Do you even know what the Graduate
Student Association is? Or what it has done for you lately? If the
answer to these two questions is no, then you need to vote for me.
I’ve been a graduate student, on and off, for a long time. Law
School. Harvard Business School. Film School (USC and UCLA).
Usually, campus politics never help the average student. We have
cash, we have a budget, we should spend it on the quality of life
for the average graduate student. Here are some ideas I think are
really good: 1. Freeze, reduce, or eliminate the professional fee.
Tuition should be the same for everyone. After all, professional
students probably use less of the campus resources, and hang out at
our own school most of the time – why should we pay more? 2.
Preferential parking for graduate students. We’re older, we have
other things to do, we need to be able to zoom in, do our thing,
and zoom out. 3. Mailings to Sacramento, to let our state
government know our gripes. Bury them in paper! 4. Graduate student
parties. We need parties, just like the undergrads. Good parties.
With food, drink, and music. So we can mingle. Have a good time.
Meet some interesting people. Get laid once in a while. Any of this
sound good? Let’s use our money for us. It’s our cash, the most
worthy thing I can think of spending it on is us. Vote for me –
let’s cut down the hassles of being a graduate student and party
on! Freeze, reduce or eliminate the professional fee.