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...rigging engulfed the body in a fight to regain its composure. In response, the UC’s Election Reform Task Force recently endorsed 11 recommendations meant to improve election integrity by drastically increasing ballot security and redefining the Election Commission. However, the proposed reforms are excessive, and the UC should instead focus its attention and resources on programs that will more directly and beneficially impact student life on campus...
First, the suggestions put forth by the commission include new voting software that would require five of eight election “trustees” to enter an electronic password to access ballot results. Although the UC makes a solid effort to address concerns over corruption, these changes may ultimately do little to dispel students’ worries that elections are never impervious to manipulation. So long as there are computer science wonks, accusations of hacking will inevitably resurface in future elections. Besides, it bears mentioning that the allegations last semester were proven false, making this response seem like...
...students for having taken to the streets rather than staying in the classroom where, so it is said, a student who really cared about education would be. The academic sacrifices suffered to support these campaigns for the protection of higher education are indeed real, and students across the UC system remark they are suffering from "protest fatigue...
However, the long-term consequences if these campaigns fail to stop tuition hikes and the failure of the UC system to achieve its educational purpose will greatly outweigh any short-term fatigue. Mark Yudof, president of the University of California, has said that departure of faculty members is his biggest fear in the UC system’s current crisis. Yet the proposed tuition hike threatens to exclude huge numbers of students from the world-class education promised to them by the California Master Plan, drawn up 50 years ago to ensure affordable access to education. If classes are cancelled...
...affordability. Non-violent protests against this unfortunate reality—as all the protests have promised to be—are thus completely justified. As such, we support the protestors’ expansive, multi-dimensional approach and hope that the students, staff, faculty, and administrators of the UC schools will begin seeing their demands for the continued safety and strength of the public university system...