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SUA Works on Transportation Arrangements for Upcoming Regents Meeting

SUA will not be chartering a bus to the upcoming regents meeting, however, other transportation arrangements are being sought

By Jacob Van Der Wilk

City on a Hill Press

Published November 3, 2011 at 2:28 am

Story updated 11/6/2011 at 1:05am

The Student Union Assembly (SUA) will be announcing plans to accommodate students who wish to attend the Nov. 16 UC regents meeting. A bus will not be provided due to budget issues that have led to cuts in funding for travel and conferences.

Alternative methods of transportation, such as a rental van or carpool system, are being looked in to, according to SUA external vice chair Nelson Cortez. Transportation arrangements will be announced once they have been finalized. Students who wish to partake in transportation accommodations are encouraged to sign up through the SUA website, studentunionassembly.org.

“Student attendance at the UC regents meeting is always important,” Cortez said in an email. “A lot of times regents forget who they are supposed to serve, and whoever they see at the meeting is usually the only student they will come across.”

Cortez also noted the University of California Students Association (UCSA) is currently accepting applications for students who wish to be StARs (Student Advocates to the Regents). Students who participate in the program receive privileged access to regents meetings, as well as the opportunity to speak directly with regents regarding student issues. Applications can be found at www.ucsa.org, and are due Friday, Nov. 4, at 5 p.m.

According to another organizer, the UAW are expected to be organizing seven buses to accommodate students and others who wish to attend the meeting in San Francisco. The buses will be leaving shortly before 8 a.m. on the Nov 16. from an eastside UCSC location yet to be determined.

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Nelson Cortez is the External Vice Chair of the SUA.
prescott

Please don’t dismiss my comments because of their condescending tone:

There must be a focus on educating students about the UC and California State budgets. During the Regents meeting in November 2010, when hundreds of students were at the meeting at UCSF’s Mission Bay conference center, whatever efforts to educate were made were not enough. Many students I spoke with didn’t understand the basics of how the UC budget is determined and also didn’t understand what the Regents do. Somehow things got so out of hand in the protests outside that an officer drew his firearm. I really think that if more people in that crowd understood the California budget crisis and the UC budget, they would have other ideas about how to channel their anger.
Prescott

Is StARs a program just run by UCSA or does it also work in conjunction with the PAC that the new student regent is creating?

Jriordan

It is only run through UCSA and is only applicable to UC Regents meetings. The PAC will not have the access of the StARs program (as it is reserved to UCSA) and the StARs program won’t have access to the resources of the PAC. The only way the two would interact is if UCSA became a PAC, and I am not sure the system would allow it/ UCSA isn’t moving in that direction.