As the external vice president for the undergraduate student Kaczmarek spends almost every weekend traveling across the With all the traveling, Kaczmarek said juggling his course “Taking classes is extremely difficult because the (course As a fifth-year political science and geography student with a “I don’t see a huge difference between (work and On Friday, Kaczmarek was appointed by University of California Kaczmarek also participates in two lobbying bodies as chairman “This is part of UCSA chair’s Holding roles with two lobbying bodies in addition to USAC, “For me balancing is being able to have an effective staff However, Kaczmarek admitted that exhaustion has caught up with “I want to be able to make sure I’m not attending Among the most pressing duties Kaczmarek balances is serving as The second drafts of the UCOP guidelines should be released to “The overall experience, though long and arduous, has been USAC Internal Vice President Allende Palma/Saracho said he “(Kaczmarek) will sit down and plan out his weeks in As Kaczmarek is responsible for advocating student issues Anu Joshi, external affairs vice president for the Associated “I sacrifice a lot of sleep but it’s definitely a Since starting his term as EVP, Kaczmarek has been to “Going to different cities is cool, but basically we do a The trips are funded through various sources including the UC Five years ago, when Kaczmarek was a first-year student, “My goal when I came here was to excel academically and So despite the endless hours of work, Kaczmarek believes the “Learning not only happens in class but on campus as well
government, Matt Kaczmarek faces challenges the average UCLA
student may not encounter.
country attending conferences, lobbying Congress and advocating for
students on issues like fee increases and enrollment caps.
schedule with work is a challenge.
schedule) is regular, and I am not,” Kaczmarek said.
minor in public policy, Kaczmarek added that studying for his
classes, and working with the Undergraduate Students Association
Council are intertwined.
class) because they’re both academic exercises,”
Kaczmarek said.
President Robert Dynes to serve on a committee to review UC
admissions issues such as enrollment caps and SAT score
discrepancies. The UC has come under fire for its admissions
policies when a confidential report was released showing students
with high SAT scores were rejected from UC Berkeley, while students
with much lower scores were accepted. Officials have criticized the
report as being too narrow in focus.
of the University of California Student Association, and as a
member of the United States Student Association. Kaczmarek believes
his participation in the reviewing committee will not affect his
other duties.
responsibilities,” Kaczmarek said.
Kaczmarek has learned to master the balancing act.
that I trust and who can produce quality work,” Kaczmarek
said.
him. On Friday, Kaczmarek was scheduled to attend a conference in
Kansas City, Mo. but canceled his trip due to travel fatigue and to
spend time working in the office.
conferences just for the conferences, but to be able to bring
information back (to USAC),” Kaczmarek said.
the chief negotiator between the UC Student Association and the UC
Office of the President regarding guidelines on student government
funding. Current UCOP guidelines conflict with a 1999 Supreme Court
ruling that stated student governments must allocate funds on a
viewpoint-neutral basis.
UC campuses sometime in December or January. Kaczmarek said the
process has been long because students and the UC Regents disagreed
on issues such as lobbying rights, which student governments wanted
with no restrictions. The UC’s general counsel wanted to
place restrictions on lobbying rights because they were concerned
the regents would be liable for the students’ actions.
a good model of how the student consultation process should
work,” Kaczmarek said.
always needs a copy of Kaczmarek’s schedule to know his
whereabouts.
advance which I envy because I don’t have that kind of
organization,” Palma/Saracho said.
outside UCLA, he also works with council members from other
universities, including schools within the UC. This entails
spending a considerable amount of time traveling to several UC
campuses.
Students of UC Berkeley, works closely with Kaczmarek and also
faces the problem of time management.
privilege to be where I am,” Joshi said.
conferences in Washington, D.C., Wisconsin and Texas. Kaczmarek
recently attended a leadership conference in Portland, Ore. On
Wednesday, Kaczmarek will travel to Washington, D.C. and Miami.
lot of sitting in meetings,” Kaczmarek said.
Office of the President, USAC, and Kaczmarek’s office.
becoming a member of the student government was not what he had in
mind.
make my community happy,” Kaczmarek said.
entire experience is worth it.
“¦ I am learning as much if I were taking a full academic
load, maybe more.”
