New Green Love proposal
The Green Love initiative brought some new proposals before Associated Students during its council meeting last week.
The green commissioner for A.S., Erica Johnson, outlined a pledge for A.S. members to sign that would target three areas. Students would pledge to recycle whenever possible, use reusable bags instead of plastic bags and use reusable water containers instead of water bottles.
Executive Director of A.S. Dan Cornthwaite asked about the financial effect that such a pledge would have on Aztec Shops. Aztec mountain spring water is a popular product with students, Cornthwaite said, and Aztec Shops will take a financial loss if students start abstaining from plastic water bottles. Johnson said she would take the proposal before Aztec Shops to receive its input.
No vote was taken and A.S. will be giving its feedback on the plan in the weeks to come.
IRA Fee questions
Yet another student spoke out against the proposed Instructionally Related Activities Fee increase. Amir A. Shoja, a political science graduate student, called on A.S. to reconsider the IRA Fee proposal and to create a new committee in order to further study its effects. Shoja said many students opposed the fee increase and asked why A.S. had not offered a student referendum that would allow students to vote on the matter. A.S. has not met its goal of adequately informing students about the fee, Shoja said.
A.S. executives responded by saying a wide segment of the student body had been well informed through alternative consultation. Executives cited student votes taken at various forums in which 50 percent of students had voted in favor of the fee increase, 38 percent of students voted against it and 12 percent of students abstained from voting. Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan representative Jazmin Lua said she heard many students who attended the forums were athletes, which could potentially affect the vote in favor of the fee increase.
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