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SGA discusses meal plans, upcoming Amherst elections

Amber Vaillancourt, Collegian Staff

Issue date: 3/15/07 Section: News
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Robie Hubley, who corrently serves on Amherst's Select Board and is seeking re-election, spoke at last night's SGA meeting.
Media Credit: Toan Trinh/Collegian
Robie Hubley, who corrently serves on Amherst's Select Board and is seeking re-election, spoke at last night's SGA meeting.

Elections were in the air last night at the Student Government Association's 1,520th regular meeting. With 24 Senators present, discussion moved from the upcoming SGA elections and town of Amherst elections, to the recent vote by the Board of Trustees to hike the tuition price for University of Massachusetts students.

Student Trustee Mishy Leiblum reported to the Student Senate that today, the UMass Board of Trustees voted to increase the tuition of UMass. Tuition and mandatory fees will now be increased by 3.4 percent.

Leiblum brought up the fact that two of the Trustees on the Board voted against the increase. Leiblum passed around the SGA slips of paper that listed the e-mail addresses of the two trustees who voted against the increase, Trustees Jennifer Braceras and Larry Boyle. Leiblum urged Senators to send 'thank you' e-mails to those trustees for voting with the students.

Leiblum then relayed to the SGA that the Board of Trustees consistently explains that the reason for the student charges is "the steady de-investment of public funding in the University."

However, Leiblum explained that the Board of Trustees did pass Resolution T07-021, in which "the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees encourages the University system at large to make all suitable allowances for broad-based participation in civic engagement, including but not limited to such activities and events as: lobby day for public higher education advocacy..."

The resolution passed was the first motion in years brought by a trustee to the board from the Amherst campus in "literally years," Leiblum stated. Leiblum also added that PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network Of Massachusetts) is sponsoring a Lobby Day which will take place in Boston on April 25.

President Elvis Mendez also reminded the SGA that Amherst town elections will take place on March 27 and that a voting station will be set up in the Cape Cod Lounge in the Student Union available for students to use.

The upcoming town election is concerning the Amherst School Committee and the Select Board. "There are 18,000 students on campus, and if we decided to support a candidate, vote a certain way, we could certainly influence town politics," Mendez said.
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