Senate sets goals for 2008-2009 legislative year

Upon meeting Christopher Chavez, acting Vice President & President, Associated Students Board of Directors, I recieved a copy of The Policy Agenda and Legislative Initiatives for the 2008-2009 Senate of the Associated Students.
ASI President Erin Swetland approved this agenda on Sept. 24th, 2008 to be put into effect for the 2008-2009 school year. The approach ASI takes to achieve these goals will affect students, teachers and faculty alike. The goals include but are not limited to:

• Improve campus safety
• Designate smoking areas on campus
• Improve quality of acedemic advising and make it more accesible
• Urge local and state leaders to not cut higher education expenditures as a solution to the budget woes of California

'Sometimes there IS such a thing as a free ride'

CSULB and Long Beach Transit extended their partnership to 365 days a year after the undeniable success of this months trial of the U-PASS Program.
The extension allows CSULB students, faculty and staff to ride Long Beach Transit buses and the Passport Shuttle anytime with a swipe of a Long Beach State I.D. card. With over 30 stops all over the community U-PASS should ease the parking problem on campus.
U-PASS did more then save students from the morning-headache which came with parking; it saves students money and benefits our environment. With the increase of ridership going up nearly 10 percent, U-PASS is helping to reduce global warming.
You can plan your route and find out more information by visiting www.lbtransit.com.

What Goes on Behind Closed Doors?

CSULB's weekly Associated Students, Inc. Senate meeting are held every Wednesday afternoon from 3:30 to 5:30 in the University Student Union. Unlike other blogs I'm not looking to give you a recap of what was discussed, instead I will be giving student insight on the issues that ASI will be making decisions on.
ASI deals with a wide array of on campus organizations which could directly affect you. I will be attending the ASI Senate meetings in order to report back to you with potential new changes and how these decisions could be effecting you.
I intend to keep my readers on top of what is going on behind the doors of the ASI Senate meetings, as well as acting as an outlet for the CSULB student body to be heard.