Division of Student Affairs

Please support your services by voting on GOLD April 20-23, 2009.

Below you will find a partial list of statements in support of Student Affairs’ departments and/or affiliated programs participating in the Spring 2009 Associated Student or Campus Elections Commission election.

Item on Ballot	Type of Item	Election Source
A.S. Bikes	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
The AS BIKES lock in fee is dedicated to the maintenance and improvement of bicycle facilities on campus. This includes repaving paths, installation of new racks, replacement of aging racks and signage around campus. During the summer of 2009 improvements will be finalized at Campbell Hall, a new lot will be installed at Music and multiple maintenance projects around campus will be completed. To continue to make improvements on campus and make your bike commute as safe and easy as possible please VOTE YES on AS BIKES.
A.S. Community Affairs Board	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
Community Affairs Board is the volunteer action center on campus. We provide a database of volunteer opportunities to our students. Our volunteer opportunities cover a wide range of interests including working with the homeless, the elderly, low-income families, transition homes, children with cancer, animals, the environment, and awareness of our community’s needs. In addition, we partake in mini service activities each week at our meetings to help out with the local community and nonprofits. Along with the mini service activities, we set up programs to help with the local and surrounding communities. This past year, we were able to feed the homeless breakfast once a week, provide 100 Thanksgiving Baskets to the families in Isla Vista, help with Hurricane Ike relief in Texas, bring awareness and raise funds for local non-profit organizations such as School on Wheels, and so much more. With our students’ support, we are able to plan and participate in these events to make the community a better place. Vote Yes on Community Affairs Board reaffirmation to continue these services!
A.S. Isla Vista Tenants Union	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
Got a dispute with your landlord? Trying to get your security deposit back? Think rent prices are getting out of hand? The Isla Vista Tenants Union is your space to educate, advocate, and organize for tenants’ rights. For ten years, we have promoted tenant interests and acted against violations of tenants' rights. Located at 6550 Pardall, Apt B (above GrafkArt), we receive walk-in tenants daily, we hold workshops and trainings on tenants issues, we organize for tenant-friendly laws, we confront unethical landlords and property mangers, and we work for a united tenant community in Isla Vista. Please vote YES and be a part of the only student-run, student-funded tenants union in the nation!
A.S. Program Board	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
In 2006, students voted to implement a $10 per quarter fee to support Associated Students Program Board. With the money from this fee, Program Board has continued to put on numerous events on campus. Here is just a sampling of the things we have done in the last two years alone. After Hours at The Hub — a low-cost concert series in the UCen Hub. Notable acts have included Pato Banton, Jack’s Mannequin, Living Legends, Hieroglyphics, t.A.t.U., Minus The Bear, Tech N9ne, Infected Mushroom, and upcoming concerts from Pinback and Fleet Foxes. Extravaganza — the annual FREE music festival. In the last two years, acts such as Nas, T.I., Pepper, Mickey Avalon, and hellogoodbye performed, amongst others. Storke/Event Center Concerts — acts such as The Killers, Lupe Fiasco, Three 6 Mafia, Gunther, Head Automatica, and The Federation. Tuesday Night Movies — This fee has allowed us to make all Tuesday night movies completely FREE for all UCSB students, and to show more sneak previews of films before their release date. Lectures and Cultural Events — Comedy nights, Johnny Cupcakes lecture, Invisible Children screenings, Brazilian Capoeira exhibitions, and more. Free support for student groups — We provide live sound equipment and personnel and security free of charge for approved student group events, such as Reel Loud, Chilla Vista, and Earth Day, to name a few. We are asking you to continue to support student programming and live music on UCSB’s campus by voting YES to reaffirm our fee.
A.S. Take Back The Night	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
A.S. Take Back the Night is asking you to support reaffirming our lock-in of 40 cents! With this money we are able to make a positive change in our community and continue our fight against sexual violence. This vote will allow us to continue bringing powerful speakers and performers. With this support we can continue reaching out to the community with empowering events and help our neighbors feel safe at home. We need your help though…vote yes to reaffirming the A.S. Take Back the Night lock-in!
Arts & Lectures	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
“Each year, UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) presents over 100 films, lectures, writers’ readings and performances by musicians, dancers, and theater artists from around the world. Past A&L participants have included Yo-Yo Ma, Jon Stewart, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tony Blair, Jack Johnson, General Colin Powell, Wynton Marsalis, BB King, and John Cleese. In addition to providing the UCSB student body unique cultural experiences, these events also support classroom learning with many UCSB students attending as part of their course requirements. A majority of the artists presented also engage in educational outreach opportunities for students across campus through workshops, master classes, meet-the-artists and demonstrations. This fee allows A&L to preserve and enhance the services it offer to UCSB students so that we many continue to 1) offer significantly discounted UCSB student ticket prices (up to 75% less than performance tickets sold to the general public as calculated by current season prices); 2) offer a selection of up to 40 free events a year; 3) provide student employment opportunities and internships for over 80 UCSB students; 4) arrange intimate student-artist contacts through educational outreach across various UCSB departments and fields of study; 5) use current technology, like a 24-hour online ticketing buying system, email blasts and other electronic means to provide students with up-to-date information about A&L events; 6) bring to students a diverse roster of some of the world’s most influential thinkers, authors, performing artists and public figures as well as unique films.”
Campus Learning Assistance Services	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
If CLAS is to retain its current services, and continue to meet changing student needs, CLAS must maintain AS student fee funding. Students use CLAS an average of 37 hours in group instruction and 6 hours in drop-in services per quarter. A student hiring a private tutor would have to pay $40 to $60 for a single hour of tutoring. CLAS is asking for your support in reaffirming $6. In this financial climate, CLAS cannot offer essential academic support services without maintaining student fee support. The loss of student fee funds would dramatically reduce CLAS’ hours of operation and the number of groups, review sessions, drop-in services, consultation appointments, and skills services. The fee funds the equivalent of 1/3 of our full-time staff or all 100 of our student staff. This drastic loss would be detrimental to student retention and the academic success for over 8000 undergraduates who use CLAS each year. Helping CLAS maintain its open door policy ensures that all students have equal access to vital academic tutoring. Please vote YES to reaffirm $6 for CLAS.
Career Services* *Listed as Counseling & Career Services	Reaffirmation	Campus Elections
With the unemployment at an all-time high, it is critical that Career Services continues to offer the full range of services that students need to in order to take their next step into the a career or graduate school. If we were to lose the student fee funds, we would lose fully a quarter of our budget, eliminating critical functions including our outreach to employers and job development efforts; our services to graduate students; and our ability to provide the free three month grace period, critical for students who graduate, are still without employment, and need extended services to find work. This year over 14,000 students registered to use Career Services. To serve our students, each year we put on nine major career fairs, offer over 90 workshops and another 90 or more employer information sessions, maintain an active job/internship listing, and oversee an on- campus interview service, brining employers to UCSB to interview students for jobs. In addition, we provide individual and drop-in counseling, career testing, career classes, a state-of-the-art web site, and a full service career resource library. With the huge cuts we experienced this year and additional cuts next year, it is even more imperative that we are able to rely on student fee funding to support our services. Most students go to college in order to get better jobs. Career Services is fundamental to their success. Please help us to help students with their next step in life.
Counseling Services* *Listed as Counseling & Career Services	Reaffirmation	Campus Elections
Counseling Services supports the mission of Student Affairs through the promotion of emotional well being and by providing a place for personal exploration and development. Counseling Services supports students in their adjustment to life at UCSB and provides assistance throughout their academic career. We work with graduate students, undergrads, parents, roommates, friends, staff and faculty. The UCSB community turns to us in times of crisis and tragedy. We have had a 28% increase in students seen since Fall 2007. Our numbers of crises seen have also increased. More and more friends turn to Counseling Services to get support for their roommates or class colleagues. It is a strong statement that students recognize the need for Counseling Services. Students have demonstrated that they care about their well being and emotional health by voting for this fee. A re-affirmation of this fee will continue to demonstrate this support. A reaffirmation will send a statement that students care and want to be successful in their lives at UCSB. A re-affirmation will assure that we continue to bring you the best services possible to help you in stressful times. Thank you.
Children's Center	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
Since 1989 UCSB students have demonstrated on overwhelming show of support for their fellow students with young families and we ask for a yes vote to reaffirm this crucial funding. The Children’s Center Support fee positively and directly impacts UCSB students with and without young children. Most importantly, the fee allows students with young children affordable access to high quality child care while they attend school. The fee is used to provide a child care tuition subsidy allowing student parents to pay child care tuition at rates 40% lower than those for faculty and staff. Without this support, the rates would simply be unaffordable for many student families. The fee also provides funding for the employment of over 100 students each quarter as classroom teaching assistants at the Orfalea Family Children's Center on West Campus and the University Children’s Center at the Student Resource Building. We are also proud of the UCSB student peer mentor program we have been able to implement as a direct result of the fees received. The peer mentor program acknowledges and rewards our exemplary student employees, improves the work experience of the newly employed students and just as valuable, improves the children’s experience on a daily basis. The two sites serve over 200 children ages 3 months to 5 years, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. year round in 15 classrooms. We also serve as field work, observation and research sites in support of the academic mission. Thank you for your continued support and investment in the youngest UCSB students of all!
Coastal Fund	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
Coastal Fund is a student run organization that allocates student funds to preserve, protect, and enhance the environment associated with the UCSB shoreline by funding grant proposals for preservation, education, open access, research, and restoration. Since 1999, the Coastal Fund has proven to be an outstanding resource in improving our local shoreline and providing opportunities for students to get involved local coastal projects. The Coastal Fund supplies diverse prospects for valuable internships and student involvement for all levels of interest. An important focus of Coastal Fund is the Coastal Service Program, which provides the student body with the opportunity to be involved with the improvement of the local coastline through beach cleanups and various restorations with our partners. This partnership benefits our local environment and the student organization involved, as we monetarily sponsor each activity. The Coastal Fund is vital to maintaining the beauty, accessibility, and sustainability of our beaches as well as providing opportunities for the UCSB and local community to be involved and make improvements that really matter. So vote yes on the Coastal Fund Initiative!
Daily Nexus	Fee Increase	Associated Students
Since 1977, the Nexus has provided a daily newspaper to students for an extremely low cost: $0.85 cents per quarter during the academic year and $0.57 cents for summer session. But after 35 years, the Nexus needs a raise. With the increased fee, the Nexus will be able to return to full, five-day-a-week publication and bring you all the campus, local, entertainment and sports news and opinions - not to mention Sudoku - you need to get through each day. A $3.00 fee increase per undergraduate student for fall, winter and spring quarters, and a $0.43 fee increase per undergraduate student in the summer will be used for Nexus student journalist salaries, newsgathering operations, production costs and distribution expenses throughout campus and Isla Vista.
Disabled Students Program	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
The Disabled Students Program (DSP) receives a lock–in fee of $3.50 from Associated Students. This fee is used to provide academic accommodations for approximately 650 students living with permanent and temporary disabilities. These support services includes note takers, exam accommodations, reading services, priority registration. Re-affirming this fee will help DSP provide a level playing field for students with disabilities, and provides support to continue their education at UCSB.
Educational Opportunity Program	Reaffirmation Fee Increase	Campus Elections Campus Elections
For over 40 years, the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) has provided student centered retention services to assist students in their transition to the university, pursuit of a degree, and preparation toward graduate/professional school admission. In this effort, EOP directly serves 40% of the student body and provides programming for the entire campus community. In the last five years, EOP has experienced a fair share of the campus budget cuts. In a two year period, EOP will experience more than $550,000 of permanent and temporary budget cuts. Although we have been innovative in streamlining our operations and significantly reducing our staffing, without the success of the fee initiative, these reductions will force us to reduce all of our programming. YOUR VOTE for $3.10 per quarter (on top of a $2.75 existing fee also on the ballot for reaffirmation) will help sustain current levels of EOP campus activities, our cultural resource centers cultural/educational programs, and student organization’s opportunities for co- sponsorship funding. Activities impacted by fee funding include… Student Staff Hiring Black Family Weekend Harvest Dinner Celebration of Communities (Dessert Fest too!) Graduate School Prep & Financial Management Workshops Focus Media Journal Culture Weeks Lantern Festival For $3.10 per quarter, you will ensure the continuation of programs and services that support you and contribute to the vitality of an open campus environment that is beneficial to all UCSB students. VOTE “YES” ON THE EOP STUDENT SERVICE FEE INITIATIVE AND REAFFIRMATION!
Environmental Affairs Board	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
The Environmental Affairs Board, voted last year’s Office of Student Life Student Organization of the Year, is UCSB’s foremost student environmental organization. For over 10 years, EAB has served to raise environmental awareness and preserve the natural environment at UCSB and the surrounding community, while also providing leadership opportunities and a social outlet to students. EAB is proud to be the annual host of the Isla Vista Earth Day celebration and a promoter of wider environmental action in the state of California and in the nation’s capitol through the entities of the California Student Sustainability Coalition and Powershift. EAB is also a nexus for proactive ideas to promote sustainability and volunteer work, such as Adopt-A- Block, K-12 environmental education, organic foods in dining commons, recycling at UCSB and in Isla Vista, energy efficiency on campus, tree-planting, beach clean ups, and restoration. Please continue to support this integral part of our campus.
Intramural Sports Recreation Sports	Reaffirmation Reaffirmation	Associated Students Associated Students
Recreational Sports at UCSB is among the largest student services on campus. We facilitate a student directed program that provides student jobs and services that meets the needs of about 18,000 participants annually in intramural sports, 20 intercollegiate sport club teams, and numerous adventure programs that all contribute to a vibrant, healthy, diversified campus life. It is extraordinarily valuable for our students to participate in these types of activities achieving fun, fitness and friendships. Our programs are also used to help students develop their life skills such as competitive achievement, teamwork, communication, leadership, integrity, self-control and social responsibility. Interest, rather than skill, is the only prerequisite for participation. Furthermore, we stress and encourage all students to participate – not just those who are able to pay. As such, we have passed a number of critical student fee referendums to minimize all costs beyond the entry fees and dues students already pay. Our programs are also used to help students develop their life skills such as competitive achievement, teamwork, communication, leadership, integrity, self-control and social responsibility. Interest, rather than skill, is the only prerequisite for participation. Furthermore, we stress and encourage all students to participate – not just those who are able to pay. As such, we have passed a number of critical student fee referendums to minimize all costs beyond the entry fees and dues students already pay.
KCSB	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
KCSB is a vital campus resource that provides inexperienced students and community members with the opportunity to participate in radio media. Each year, KCSB recruits, trains, and develops the skills of a large group of new students as music and public-affairs programmers, news reporters, sports broadcasters, and radio engineers. Additionally, the station strives to offer these opportunities to a diverse community, especially people who are traditionally underrepresented in broadcasting. We encourage anyone to become involved, and promote an active, tolerant, and progressive community. For its listeners, KCSB provides programming that is stimulating, informative and generally unavailable from other local media. KCSB’s news and public affairs programming places an emphasis on providing a forum for unpopular, controversial and/or neglected perspectives on important local, national and international issues. The station also serves as an emergency resource for the community, and has recently entered a partnership with the county of Santa Barbara and other radio stations to create Radio Ready, which will provide the general public with accurate, up-to-date information in the event of a disaster. At a campus with no journalism department, KCSB plays an important role at the University, educating both programmers and listeners. KCSB is currently further encouraging student media financially and otherwise by supporting the new A.S. Media Center. The space is designed to provide students with the technology to document events of their choosing, and become media activists. KCSB is funded by students, so supporting the A.S. Constitutional Lock-In is essential in sustaining this diverse and unique media outlet.
MultiCultural Center	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
The UCSB MultiCultural Center was established by students and for students to provide a hospitable and safe space for their use, to facilitate the recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups, and to fight all forms of discrimination and oppression. For that effect, the Center presents around 100 programs that include lectures, films and videos, panel discussions, readings, art exhibits, music, dance, and dramatic performances that would promote changes of attitudes and behaviors among the campus community. Events are open to anyone and most of them are free of charge. In addition, all of its facilities, including the theater, lounge, meeting rooms and kitchen are available to over 200 student organizations on campus. Students are therefore provided with a space to hold meetings, present their programs, and prepare food for receptions and sales. The reaffirmation of this fee will allow the Center to continue to offer 1) free educational programming, 2) free rental and A/V technical support to all UCSB student groups for their events, 3) funding for events presented by student groups, 4) jobs for students, 5) meeting space, 6) a place to study, 7) long operating hours and much more! With your vote and support, the MultiCultural Center will continue with these traditions.
Office of Student Life	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
The reaffirmation of the $1.50 fee per quarter (including summer) will support essential campus services provided by the Office of Student Life. Since the passage of the fee in 2006, the stated goals of the fee have been both met and exceeded. Reaffirmation of the fee ensures the continued implementation of these programs, as well as appropriate assessment, expansion and development. The following programs rely heavily on the Office of Student Life A.S. Constitutional Lock-In (at least half of programmatic costs and a significant portion of staffing costs as indicated in the original 2006 fee initiative): FIRST-YEAR PROGRAMS The Office of First-Year Programs is committed to assisting freshmen, transfers and new graduates in making a successful transition to university life at UCSB. Each of its programs has been created to develop the academic, personal and social skills necessary for collegiate and personal success. See www.sa.ucsb.edu/osl/fye. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT The Leadership Development Center provides theoretical and practical leadership development opportunities for students pursuing a life of professional, social and personal leadership. It recognizes the value of student leadership and the importance of leadership development of emerging scholars. See http://leadership.sa.ucsb.edu. PROFESSIONAL STAFF Effective assessment, expansion, development and implementation of student services cannot happen without a sufficient number of professional staff members. The fee provides for a full-time career staff member in the Office of Student Life who serves the aforementioned programs and other duties as dictated by the changing needs of UCSB students. (This position is a part of the initial fee description.) The following program also relies on the Office of Student Life A.S. Constitutional Lock-In (less than half of programmatic costs): ALTERNATIVE SOCIAL PROGRAMMING UCSB After Dark’s Late Nite Social Programming Fund$ awards grants to groups who host student-initiated alternative social programs. See http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/osl/LateNite/. This fee provides some funding for security costs for student groups doing late night, alternative programming.
Student Medical Emergency Relief Fund (SMERF)	Reaffirmation	Campus Elections
Ina Kristiansen was to recreational sports what soccer is to turf: inseparable. She epitomized the heart and soul of recreational sports as a student, athlete, and beloved staff member. When leukemia struck, a program was implemented to assist Ina with her financial medical needs. Her heart stopped over a decade ago, but the glow of her spirit refused to be dimmed. To ensure that Ina’s legacy would continue, HOPE (Health Opportunities Promoting Education) prevailed and a project intended to help all students in medical need resulted. Through a variety of fundraisers, including the traditional Turkey Trot 5k/10k Race, HOPE has delivered thousands of dollars to aid the cause of students experiencing medical need. Local author, Jack Canfield donated $30,000. This coupled with $10,000 from fundraising money, led to the creation of the newly endowed Jack Canfield Chicken Soup for the Soul Fund. In the spring of 2005, UCSB students passed a student fee referendum called SMERF, or Student Medical Emergency Relief Fund. Each student contributes 89 cents per quarter, which generates more than $50,000 annually to assist UCSB students in honor of our fallen friend, Ina Kristiansen. A re-affirmation will allow SMERF to continue its assistance to UCSB students with medical emergencies.
Student Health	Reaffirmation	Associated Students
Thanks to unwavering student support, Student Health continues to be a robust medical facility staffed with an experienced team of doctors, nurses, therapists, counselors, dietitians, pharmacists, lab scientists, x-ray technologists, optometrists, and health educators whose only job is to address the health needs of UCSB students. Last academic year our appointment logs and urgent care center recorded a combined total of over 52,000 visits. We recently expanded appointment hours to 7:00 pm on Thursdays, added an additional psychiatrist and a second Advice Nurse to our staff. We continue to have a very active Health Education office that works tirelessly with students in spreading the word on the importance of making healthy life style choices. Please vote yes on reaffirmation so Student Health can continue to address the health needs of a diverse and active campus community.
Women's Center	Reaffirmation	Campus Elections
The Women’s Center has been able to provide a number of vital services to UCSB students as a result of student fee support. We offer individualized support and advocacy for survivors of sexual assault along with educational programs to reduce sexual violence on campus. We enrich the social and cultural experiences of students through our art gallery, library, workshops, films, and discussions. The Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (RCSGD) is a service of the Women’s Center, providing a safe and empowering space for lesbian, gay, transgender, queer, intersex and ally students. We offer specific programs to support re-entry/non-traditional students and graduate students, staff and faculty. A loss of student fee funding would result in drastic cuts to the Women’s Center’s services and programs. The fee funds the equivalent of ½ of our full-time staff, all our student staff and interns, and the majority of our programming. It also enables us to co-sponsor student-initiated programs, maintain extended operating hours, and offer resources for student groups. The Women’s Center provides a welcoming space for all genders, bodies, sexual orientations, and racial and ethnic identities. UCSB students have demonstrated their commitment to equality and inclusion by providing student fee support to the Women’s Center. Please vote YES to reaffirm the Women’s Center lock-in fee.