ASUA trying to 'tax' students for more power

The new proposed student activity fee that students are expected to vote on is not only a scam, but is also a total attempt by lame-duck ASUA members to push a new "tax" down the throats of unsuspecting students. The new fee is projected to "generate an estimated $1.2 million to $1.4 million." But what people don't realize is that the ASUA budget already gobbles up more than $1 million per year. And where exactly does all that money go? What exactly does ASUA really do? Less then 10 percent of the student body votes in ASUA elections, and even fewer students ever attend an ASUA event or have any interaction with ASUA. [Read article]

Let's get one thing straight: Drunken driving is a terrible societal ailment that yields immeasurable risks and consequences to those who drive drunk and to those innocents who share the roads with them. There is little in this country that has affected more people or hurt more innocents than drunken driving. It is an issue that we as a society must address. Consequently, Arizona legislators are currently trying to come up with new, "innovative" ways to curb drunken driving. [Read article]

Wednesday the ASUA Senate supported an immediate student vote on the activity fee referendum that has been in the works for the past semester. With only two rain-ravaged days to campaign, supporters of the plan resorted to a limited e-mail campaign to get the word out on the proposal, which would pull an estimated $1.2 to $1.4 million from student pocketbooks. We asked our columnists, "Was ASUA too quick to the draw? How should students vote on the referendum?" [Read article]