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Thursday, April 30, 1998

Martin Chippas

PRESIDENT

For the past three years the Students First! slate that has controlled USAC has neglected their responsibility to improve the quality of educational life for everyone at UCLA. They have spent much of the million-plus dollars they receive from the fees that every undergraduate must mandatorily pay on lobbying for their own political causes, raising their own pay and engaging in such irrational activities as blocking off traffic on Wilshire Boulevard and demanding that Chancellor Carnesale violate California law.

In the interest of ending this lunacy I am running for USAC president on the Sanity slate. If elected I, and all of the slate members, plan to do the following:

We will repeal the stipend increase passed by the current members of USAC and will require that all future stipend increases be approved by a vote of the entire student body.

We will greatly reduce the amount of mandatory student fees and will require all future increases to be approved by the entire student body.

We believe that forcing students to pay for political causes they may or may not believe in is wrong and that none of the revenue that USAC receives should be used for such activities. We believe this money should go toward activities benefiting all students, like cultural events, health, campus safety and the alleviation of parking and transportation problems.

Currently decisions of the Judicial Board can and have been overturned by USAC. The Sanity slate will make the J-Board independent.

Martin Chippas

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