The ASUC Store Operations Board discussed the possibility of a new charter and reviewed the financial statuses of businesses under its jurisdiction at last weekend’s retreat.
Although no official board decisions were made, attendees did briefly discuss the decision to postpone rechartering. A decision to recharter would have involved adopting a version of UCLA’s operation board’s system, which includes more students on the board, set times for meetings and “more substantial work,” former ASUC President Noah Stern said at a March 9 ASUC Senate meeting.
Bahar Navab, campus Graduate Assembly president and chair of the rechartering committee, said in an email that the board was considering the notion of rechartering because it does not follow its current charter in certain cases such as enforcing inner committee meetings.
“This has a big impact on how productive our meetings can be as most of the analyses and strategizing should be happening in those committees,” she said in the email.
However, before it decides whether to recharter, the board plans to follow the current charter more closely for a year to see how effectively and efficiently it will serve the board, Navab said in the email. It will then reconsider the possibility of rechartering in one year if the current charter does not prove effective.
In addition to the issue of rechartering, board members at the retreat also discussed issues facing some ASUC assets, such as the continued deficit of the Cal Lodge near Lake Tahoe.
Between the years of 2008 and 2011, Cal Lodge endured a net loss of $125,881, according to a document presented by Associate ASUC Auxiliary Director Tom Spivey at the retreat. The lodge has suffered from high maintenance costs and a lack of use by students.
Jeff Deutsch, director of the Cal Student Store said that offers from outside merchants have resulted in lost revenue for the student store. A free download of the Adobe Creative Suite program presented at Caltopia to campus faculty, staff and students will cost the bookstore about $33,000 in lost sales.
The next official board meeting of the school year is scheduled for Sept. 23, according to Ryan Landis, chair of the board.
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Where’s the $33,000 figure come from? I’d love to hear who speculated that and how.
Where’s Harry Le Grande who claimed to have thought long and hard for 2 whole months before realigning ASUC into student affairs?
Le Grande said OE told him he could find savings at ASUC… but then Le Grande said he didn’t know squat about ASUC’s finances, making everyone wonder what he thought about those two months.
Goes to show LE GRANDE is full of LIES – like every other UC administrator.
Dear Noah Stern:
You became ASUC President through voting fraud and you admitted to this fact. You remain ASUC prez despite that admission – a state of affairs which brings shame upon both you personally and ASUC as an institution. If you had any integrity, or common decency, or even the capability for the basic emotion of shame, then you would have resigned long ago. Do us all a favor and shut your yap. Under the circumstances you embarrass the student body simply by being quoted in the paper.
Stern’s own lack of moral compass is just a reflection of what goes on around him.
The true sociopaths within the UC administrators are modeling behavior which Stern emulates.
UC is a microcosm of our society, all the fraud and lies and state sponsored violence you’ll ever want to see can be found in news items about the university. Sick freaks.