Today is the first of two days in which students can vote in the UOSA Spring 2010 General Elections. Polling places are set up across campus and online at elections.ou.edu. The Daily is providing you a short glance of the UOSA Executive Branch candidates’ main points they presented in past events.

ALLY GLAVAS AND ZAC MCCULLOCK

• Improve advising through surveys and collaboration

• Create a student-friendly Dead Week policy

• Increase and improve on-campus mass transit and parking

• Make improvements to oZONE

• Create Department of Sustainability

• Create more avenues for feedback to UOSA from all students

• Simplify the budget process for student organizations

• Establish a freshman mentor program for student government

• Increase hospitality and services to international students

• Increase number of translated OU documents for international students

• Expand efforts to welcome international students at the airport when they arrive

• Fostering an environment for more collaboration between student groups on events, projects and initiatives through biannual umbrella organization meetings

Source: allyandzac.com

FRANZ ZENTENO AND CORY LLOYD

• Promote the accessibility of education and online study tools through “OU e-notes,” an online library containing notes, presentations and educational tools

• Create an electronic database to enhance and streamline the opportunities for students to get involved

• Utilization of social media as an accessible tool that will inform students of available parking around campus

• Work on improving and expanding the current free laptop rental system (48 hours) through UOSA with the support of OUIT

• Promote increased visibility of environmental sustainability on campus

• Build stronger ties to our city so that we both can help and support each other

• Examine all aspects of UOSA to streamline the organization and form a UOSA Communications Task Force to promote the sharing of new ideas and improve relations between the four branches

• Work with IT to place phone and computer charging stations in all computer labs across campus

• Increase and improve multicultural and international initiatives

• Loosen the restrictions of the current alcohol policy while promoting responsible drinking

Source: franzandcory.com

JESS EDDY AND JAY KUMAR

• UOSA-sponsored events with a strong emphasis on building a collective community

• Publish a regular UOSA newsletter

• Budget transparency and availability

• University Garden — Green Initiative

• Student representative on the Board of Regents

• Convenience store in Kraettli

• The President’s Award be given to the outstanding organization

• Parking issue resolutions

• Transparency of fees

• Street drainage issues

• Bike-friendly campus and surrounding community

• Raise the quality of advisement by reforming the advising process

• 24-hour section of the library

Source: eddyandkumar2010.webs.com

NICHOLAS HARRISON AND JOHN SURLES

• Give all of the institution’s stakeholders more of a say in governance through a university community council

• Establish a reasonable dead week policy

• Give student organizations representation in UOSA

• Let students vote on additional funding earmarked for campus activities and student organizations

• Extend National Guard tuition waivers to cover fees, graduate studies and out-of-state tuition

• Create a UOSA Department of Student Veterans Affairs

• Include sexual orientation and gender identity in the university’s core non-discrimination statement and EO complaint policy

• Form a graduate student union

• Establish a professional code of conduct and a formal professional misconduct system

• Stop the sale of student information to credit card companies and adopt financial literacy programs

• Eliminate special fees for services that should be part of tuition

• Establish more night programs and correspondence courses for non-traditional students

Source: shared-governance.com