Providing grant funding for graduate students, placing more Redboxes across campus and adding a Regional Transit System Bus Tracking Center in the Reitz Union mark just some of the issues the Unite Party plans to tackle on their platform.
Unite Party spokesman Micah Lewis said ideas were mined from platform-generating events held across campus.
“All of the points are really tangible things we can deliver in an effective way,” he said.
According to the platform, Unite candidates want students without immediate Internet access to be able to go to the Reitz Union and track on-campus and off-campus buses at a tracking center.
The party also plans to provide two online services: one to match students with tutors for all majors and classifications, and one to offer discounts to national and local businesses.
Lewis said the programs could provide students a way for students to get involved.
The platform also introduces the desire to establish an electric car service that would serve as a pilot program to improve campus transportation.
Lewis said the program could be employed through either a co-sponsorship with an outside company, like Zipcar, or through the purchase of electric cars and the creation of system akin to Student Nighttime Auxiliary Patrol service.
“It would be a pilot program first, to examine its successes and failures, and then it could be expanded,” he said.
“The idea is to provide for students in a cost-effective way, while saving energy.”
Graduate students are also addressed in the platform, something Lewis says should dispel the notion that Student Government does not address graduate student concerns.
The party wants to provide graduate students with travel grants, work to expand the Baby Gator program and increase safety within family housing.
Lewis noted the practicality of the platform’s goals.
“That’s always the focus of our party, and it continues to shine through on this fall’s platform.”
