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Today the Associated Students of UCLA board of directors will
meet to discuss the potential financial crisis before them. Though
part of the discussion will address personnel issues which must be
discussed behind closed doors, the board has an obligation to the
students the association serves to keep as much of the meeting open
for comment and scrutiny as possible.
Already, ASUCLA executives plan cuts to both student
governments’ budgets and to merit increases to association
employees. But even with this, the cost of giving a living wage and
benefits to the association’s non-student workers could send ASUCLA
into financial ruin that would end its student governance.
The association is a cooperative for students and by students,
and with the stakes as high as they are currently, the board
mustn’t make decisions in executive session, which it is all
too fond of doing. It’s that kind of suspicious behavior that
has shoved students into this position.
The decisions and discussion today could lead to cuts in student
programming, the operation of Ackerman union and changes in an
entity that provides significant financial opportunities for
undergraduates and graduates. Students should come to this meeting,
demand that it remain in the public domain and make clear that this
association is theirs and should be run as they see fit.