4 rackham at large I A At i president and vice-presi -4 ken sterling martha arnold harry power Graduate Action Party independents ed brady lois verbrugge ate program. 2. To assure decent hou- sing and reasonable rents for on- and off-campus housing. No student should be compelled, by low income or unfair rent, to live in gloomy or cramped quarters. 3. To make available good medical and dental services. Students who seek care are blocked by long wait- ing periods and inadequate knowledge of service sources. Students desiring psychotherapy confront crowded univer- sity sources and expensive private ones. Expanded services and subsidization for therapy are needed. 4. To build a strong graduate lobby via the Rackham Student Government. The government must make full use of powers already acquired. It must work to increase them where a representative graduate voice is needed. 5. To provide women, blacks, and other minority groups with real access to education and adequate support. Special attention must be given to employment of student wives and to continuing education for women. 6. To increase and improve opportuni- ties for graduate students to meet one another. Channels for singletons to meet are few and often depressing. Couples need access to day care and in- expensive child-sitting services. $7. To guarantee rights of free speech arid protest, in academic departments as well as for campus-wide issues. Rackham Executive Council tiburcio vasquez ing future policies and appointments. -SGC should work with school and dorm student governments to increase their influence on both the local and Uni- versity wide levels. 6. COST OF LIVING IN ANN ARBOR -The Student Consumer Union started this year should be expanded for the purpose of preparing and dis- tributing frequent reports on local prices. -SGC should provide the initiative for the creation of a food co-op. -The University should provide one term leases and separate room and board contracts for students in Uni- versity housing. 7. REGENTS -Two students and two faculty members should be seated with the Board of Regents. This would provide the Regents with a more accurate and complete knowledge of the University. -Regents meetings should be open and held in large enough rooms to ac- comodate all those who wish to . attend. 8. ACADEMIC REFORM -Significant student membership must be instituted on all bodies which make academic decisions. -Tenure decisions should reflect teaching quality and all bodies acting on tenure must include voting student members. -All requirements and courses must be continually reevaluated. Exten- sive use of student course evalua- tions should be made in this process. 9. -C LUNICATION -Communication between students and the immediate conmunity must be en- couraged by SGC. -Minutes, meeting times, and names and phlone numbers of all SGC mem- bers sliould be distributed regularly to governments in schools, colleges, and dorms and to all student organ- izations. -The Daily, the SGC Newsletter, and the University Record must be used for communication between SGC and Uni- versity students. 10. REFERENDA. -We support approval of the Funding Plan to give $1.85 to campus stu- dent governments. The various school and college and campus wide student governments need the steady and sufficient funding which the plan will provide if they are to become and remain viable and positive forces in the University community. -We also strongly support the Peace Treaty and -both referenda on re- search. What has Student Government Council ever done for you? A with it?. If your answer to the first question is NOTHING to the second question is NO, then our campaign is direct feel it would be nice if SGC would serve students rather t philosophies for a change. We aren't going to tell you w but our goal is to benefit as many students in as many spe we can. This involves listening to you. SGC has forgotte * For example, the money SGC spends comes directly from e tuition. But it spends this student money carelessly. T gave $250 for the personal election campaign of an SGC men $100 to SDS for a pamphlet which was never delivered. It group of students to disrupt a Regents' meeting. There ha after case of irresponsible spending as well as wasteful i phone and mimeograph machine. Now it has proposed that SG per student per term instead of the current $.25, so that more student money. We are the only presidential slate wh this referendum. Without raising student tuition we will more efficiently and will save $7,500 to $10,000 next year divided proportionately among school governments for their fit. We feel that money spent this way will benefit stude immediate level without a raise in tuition. We have divided our platform into four areas in which we specific, progressive programs. These areas are Student W Rights, Self-Determination, and Community Welfare. We have divided our platform into four areas in which -w oped specific, progressive programs. These areas are Stud Student Rights, Self-Determination, and Community Welfare. * For example, one program of Student Welfare is a pay as loan plan. The U will borrow money from financial institu large transaction and make it available for students to bc $5,000 a year. Students then will repay this loan at the their gross income multiplied by the amount of the loan ov 30 year period. * One of our programs to increase student rights is to en licy Board recruitment policy in favor of allowing such po by the individual schools. This we feel will have a stron banning racism and sexism in recruiting while safeguarding students to see a recruiter. * In the area of Self-Determination we will re-vamp the C put it under student control, and make a workable situatio present mess. * And in Community Welfare we will increase student servi munity like OutReach so that more students can be particip worthwhile community projects. We will coordinate these s one office. These are just a few of our programs within these areas, bu representative of what we have to offer. We make no pretense of taking stands on national and inter political issues. SGC is a student government and our pro student based. The purpose of SGC is to benefit students ity. SGC has copped out on this purpose too long. bill thee Jim Name: Lois Verbrugge, M.P. i. 1969, M.A. 1970, Doctoral student in Sociology. Independent candidate. Graduate students deserve an envi- ronment that facilitates, rather than frustrates, their academic ends. I support efforts: 1. To improve the declining economic status of graduate students. Stipends must increment to keep pace with inflation. Access to low-interest loans must be improved (loans are currently small and short- term or must be found outside Ann Arbor-). Teaching fellowships must be available for the duration of a gradu- ruth senter NO PLATFORM SUBMITTED. 18 'i r c- .~ ~ ~* r.~ t@t% ,r . L.: c-)1, .iz± . slf . 1 v . 2 'A ;g ±