Addar Weintraub is without a doubt the best, most qualified candidate for the position of Academic Affairs commissioner.
The Bruins United candidate has real, concrete plans for how to deal with the problems which students actually care about and has the experience and connections to get it done.
One of her best plans is to reform how students enroll in classes by making the process of signing up easier, reevaluating the priority enrollment system and providing students with resources to make better academic choices.
Weintraub also has plans to allocate enrollment time slots on a time-to-graduation basis, allowing students to get into the classes they need in order to graduate on time. She also plans to focus the priority enrollment system more on students who have been committed to programs such as the Academic Advancement Program and the Honors Program, so that priority will be more useful to those who have it and less of an impediment to those who do not.
Additionally, if Weintraub is elected, she will enter the office with work on her platforms underway, as she has already begun contacting administrators and learning exactly what she has to do to accomplish her goals.
Her opponent, Students First! candidate Alexandra Ramos, is less qualified and simply does not have plans to bring about real improvement in the academic lives of students.
Her plans, which include a diversity spotlight series and an American societies and cultures studies requirement, do not address the concerns of the student body as a whole so much as forwarding a specific group of students’ desires. She overlooks the hopes of the greater student population for real changes to academics at UCLA.
Weintraub has real plans to ease the pain of the enrollment process, make course readers more accessible and affordable, and institute programs to facilitate all students’ transitions into UCLA.