LETTERS

Thursday, November 6, 1997

LETTERS

USAC’s

priorities?

Cheers to Viewpoint writer Alex Balekian for having the guts to
speak blatantly about a narrow-minded USAC. Students need to be
told exactly what these "student representatives" are doing with
their money.

For example, at the Nov. 5 USAC meeting, President Kandea
Mosely’s officer’s report included a proposal to print an ad in the
newspaper regarding student government goals for the year (look for
another $700 of yours going to fund this).

Maybe I’m missing something here, but shouldn’t this have been
done 5 months ago? I guess since it didn’t involve increasing
stipends, fighting Proposition 209, or condemning international
corporations, it wasn’t a priority.

Also, should the government be spending our money for another
texty and boring ad? It seems as though Students First! is trying
to salvage themselves from bad press by spending our student fees
to put on a damage-control campaign.

To those of you upset by recent student government actions (or
lack thereof), I ask you to join me in attendance at weekly USAC
meetings, every Tuesday night, at 6:30pm in Kerckhoff 400.

Showing USAC our disapproval in large numbers may be the only
way to put all students first in student government (kind of
ironic, isn’t it?).

Ryan Ozimek

Third-year

Communication studies

Cover overlooks faculty earnings

As a member of the Westwood community I have the opportunity to
read The Daily Bruin whenever the issue is available. I was
appalled at not seeing a single faculty member on the cover of your
October 31st edition "What UCLA EARN$". Aren’t instructors a major
part of the foundation of a university system, or is it all
business now?

Aklilu T. Abebe

Westwood resident