| Olga Savic |
Leading this year's largest slate, presidential candidate Mike Nagrant, an LSA representative, and his running mate, LSA junior Olga Savic, will carry the Students' Party on the promise of three key platform points.
"It pretty much comes down to three areas: cutting student costs, ensuring fiscal and organizational responsibility on the assembly, and ensuring solid student representation," Nagrant said.
Nagrant said he and Savic, if elected, would design a proposal to take to the University Board of Regents that would hold tuition increases to the rate of inflation.
"Cutting students' cost will be a No. 1 priority," Nagrant said.
Nagrant said the Students' Party's second proposal to cut costs is to create a non-profit coursepack store that would sell non-royalty coursepacks at cost.
"It's an issue of making student lives comfortable," Savic said.
| Michael Nagrant |
Nagrant and Savic said they would guarantee responsibility with MSA funds and organization.
"I came up with roughly $2,000 from the fall term that we can return to student groups from the (MSA) Operations account alone," Nagrant said, adding that they would open up more sources of money by trimming internal office expenditures.
Savic said current assembly members are not truly representing the student voice to the administration, and are instead more concerned with maintaining good relations with administrators.
"The executive officers in particular haven't done an adequate job representing student interest," said Savic, a former MSA representative. "There hasn't been an equal relationship (between MSA and the administration)."
Savic ran for MSA vice president on the Students' Party ticket last winter and has not officially sat on the assembly since. "I feel like after being away (from the assembly) for a year, I can identify with what's going on campus and what the average student really wants," Savic said. "Being MSA president and vice president isn't just a line on your resume, it's a job."