SUFC wants your vote
Elections to be held April 17 and 18
By Ryan Cardarella
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The UWM Post will be speaking with members of Achieving Student Access through Progress (ASAP) and Students United For Change (SUFC) ahead of the upcoming student elections, to be held on April 17 and 18. Here is a chance for students see where the candidates stand on the issues.
The responses that follow are from SUFC presidential candidate Tyler Draheim and his running mate Tommy Hughes. A mix-up involving an e-mail attachment prevented Hughes answers from being published in last week’s Post profile article.
Post: Why do you want the job?
Tyler Draheim: I want to fight against tuition and fee hikes and make sure that the burden of parking, book fees and campus safety is not on the shoulders of the students.
Tommy Hughes: I want to be vice president of the SA, because I love UWM, and would work harder to represent the students than our opponents.
Post: What makes you an effective leader?
TD: A leader has to have passion, experience, and determination. I have the experience of serving on budget, advisory and senate committees for two years. I am also determined to make sure that students are recognized as the most important part of our university.
TH: What has made me a good leader in the past is my ability to forge relationships, and network with people. I would carry this over by establishing better relationships with our student orgs in the Union. There have been misunderstandings there in the past, and I do not feel we can represent the students without positive relationships there.
Post: Outline your approach to incorporating the surrounding Milwaukee community.
TD: The SAFE program has been very important in increasing campus and surrounding community safety. SUFC was also very important in the development of the COAST program, which puts block captains on certain community blocks and allows the proper communication between students and neighbors. I promise that we will continue to expand both of these programs.
TH: We would also like to focus more of the student government’s budget towards putting on events on campus, which would be appealing to students, and the neighbors.
Post: How do you keep tuition low while continuing to fund critical services?
TD: SUFC has shown that we can stop fee increases while maintaining and even increasing services. I don’t like that the resource centers on campus have to worry from year to year if they will receive a reduction in funding or face the possibility of being declared ineligible. I vow to find alternative funding.
TH: As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, the responsibility of saving students money will fall on my shoulders. I will make sure the resource centers are funded accurately, and fairly, and will thoroughly examine all funded entities to assure all the money students give is being spent responsibly.
Post: How do you make the SA more open and transparent?
TD: I will make sure that size of the SA Web site will increase so that every budget, expenditure and piece of legislation will be easily accessible. I plan to hold open forums so that any student may address issues that they are having with me or my decisions.
TH: Aside from posting things on a Web site, we are also committed to having agendas, and legislation posted in paper form outside of our office.
Post: How can you recruit and engage underclassmen more effectively?
TD: We are going to continue to make Pantherfest grow and add even more events to increase recruiting and form strong relationships between underclassmen and upperclassman. I would like to develop a committee whose responsibility would be to get the SA message out to incoming students and make sure that they understand what we are about at UWM.
TH: We will interact heavily with organizations we create that students see a benefit from. If we can maintain constant communication, and a positive presence within these organizations, we can reach the students in the best way. We believe hearing the students out has to be done on a face-to-face basis.
Post: Is there a particular issue that hasn't been addressed that you would
like to deal with in office?
TD: We haven’t discussed the issue of Chapter 17 being implemented. I want to fight to make sure that students who are penalized for actions that take place outside of our university are not subject to discipline enforced by the university and the administration itself.
TH: The environment. We live in a fragile world, and our university could be doing much more to be green. We are not fanatics; we are the candidates that really want a clean environment.
Post: Why should students vote for you?
TD: I honestly believe that SUFC and I are the lone option in this election that has the actual ability to implement the positive change that is needed to further UWM as a whole. We have that perfect mixture of experience and new ideas that our campus needs to fight for our rights.
TH: We are also the only party that is talking about ideas, and solutions. Our opposition has run an extremely dirty campaign, and likes to say that we are “not real students” and criticize us for things that have happened this year rather than advocating their own issues, and talking about how they will handle the future.
> Comments
SA Sedition ACT on Apr 14, 2008 at 12:45 AM:
Do you call that positive change?
Way to go... on Apr 14, 2008 at 01:33 AM:
Wow, I didn't think Tommy Hughes could come off as more of a douchebag than he already is.
I stand corrected.
Way to use your chance to talk about your campaign and SUFC by bitching about ASAP and their campaign.
BIAS on Apr 14, 2008 at 02:00 AM:
Have you guys ever mentioned that SUFC has accomplished nearly everything on their platform last year? They did the job we elected them to do - and the deserve election on those grounds.
You guys are biased and out of touch.
C.
Pissed off UWM Student on Apr 14, 2008 at 02:10 AM:
Perhaps SUFC should not have cut vital resource centers for students while wasting student money staying at a hotel in Manhattan, refusing to use public transportation, and trying to censor student speech while making UWM a laughing stock among the UW schools, and giving the school a very bad image to prospective students, Sedition Act "Misunderstanding" my ass.
SUFC's accomplishments on Apr 14, 2008 at 08:37 AM:
Remember how they separated the executive branch and legislative branch, something Rob Grover/SUFC ran on? oh wait, they didn't. They simply lie and cheat their way into office.
They reinforced the stacking of both branches. Look at Piwarun, Bromberek (for a while), Kristopeit, etc.
Re: SUFC's accomplishments on Apr 14, 2008 at 11:45 AM:
ASAP's accomplishments:
Scott Dettman: Threw a couple more touchdown passes in practice the other day. Too bad UWM doesn't have a football team.
Julio Guerrero: Won a cookoff
Josh Simon: Got run unanimously off of the senate floor again
SECTION COMMENT REMOVED BY UWM POST DUE TO INAPPROPRIATE POSTING
Chris Walker: Beat amnesia and discovered his photo album of dettman photos and stories from summer camp.
Buried Alive on Apr 14, 2008 at 12:08 PM:
Wow, how will ASAP dig their way out of this credibility deficit??? This election will definitely determine who will be admitted to the main event of shared governance and who will be stuck in jobber-ville.
DK on Apr 14, 2008 at 01:51 PM:
"SA Sedition ACT on Apr 14, 2008 at 12:45 AM: Do you call that positive change?"
Of course it makes the campus more orderly.
SUFC Still Sucks on Apr 14, 2008 at 07:27 PM:
SUFC Will lose, why? Because the post finally took a stand. Thank you Post!! See you later SUFC!!
Tommy A.H. Hughes on Apr 15, 2008 at 12:06 AM:
Why did Tommy leave Germany early?
Knock Knock....Who's There? on Apr 15, 2008 at 02:56 AM:
Why did Tommy leave Germany early? Please tell...
Tommy Hughes on Apr 15, 2008 at 06:49 AM:
I never left Germany early... I was an exchange student in Germany in high school.
Hey Post on Apr 16, 2008 at 08:39 AM:
So why didn't you run Tommy's answers from last week if you really wanted his answers? I think had it been ASAP there would have been an amendment offered to readers by publishing their answers.
A Students Voice on Apr 16, 2008 at 01:26 PM:
SUFC - Specifically Tommy Hughes can NOT be trusted! Do not put SUFC in power... VOTE FOR THE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES!!!
$ly$py on Apr 16, 2008 at 03:39 PM:
Well, you maybe surprised to find out that myself (and a few nameless others) are running for senator positions in SUFC...but we support ASAP ideals and plan to uphold them!
From the $ly$py
sly spy is a fake on Apr 16, 2008 at 04:51 PM:
sly spy you posted on every page you fake! Vote Indie!
Midnight on Apr 16, 2008 at 05:30 PM:
Draheim is S.A.F.E. Patrol? Heck, he couldn't catch me if I was right in front of him. His slow self. The only thing Draheim is good for is saving old men from falling down into piles of snow.
Anonymous on Apr 16, 2008 at 05:34 PM:
Name changed to "Anonymous" by UWM Post due to violation of User Content Policy.
I give SUFC my full support. They are the only candidates that will stand up to the injustices put fourth by WISPIRG, I mean, ASAP.
Mark Zeihen on Apr 16, 2008 at 05:46 PM:
After you post on Nate's facebook note, I am shocked to hear you say this.
Mark Zeihen on Apr 16, 2008 at 06:27 PM:
Does anyone know who the heck sly spy is!?! Even people that I've talked to within the party don't know who it is.
I Know on Apr 16, 2008 at 09:17 PM:
Tommy Hughes
Whoa! The Real Jimmy Lemke on Apr 17, 2008 at 12:16 AM:
Hey, guy, use a pseudonym so nobody figures out who you are, but don't use my name. I'm completely flabbergasted by such a blatant disregard for individual people on this website.
As sports editor at the Post, I'm not on either side of this. Personally, I won't believe another word posted on this website as belonging to the name attached to it, if my name can be defiled by someone else so easily.
And at least have the decency to use the proper version of the word "forth" if you're going to scam on my name. Jeez. :)
I expect an apology from the person who used my name to post fraudulently on this web site. In person. I won't hold it against anyone, so you have nothing to lose by coming up to me and being a responsible adult. If you're not going to man up to what you have done, it doesn't change anything. Unfortunately for you, I'm somewhat good with computers. Once I have some time to devote to the task this weekend, I'll know exactly who the culprit is.
I don't want to do that, however. I just want to talk to the person who used my name and hear their side of the story, completely off the record. You know who I am, obviously, and you know where I am. I'm in the office right next door to the SA, and while I'm very busy tomorrow, I'll be able to take a few minutes to have a reasonable adult-to-adult discussion.
I haven't come out and said I'm going to vote for ASAP or SUFC, so you can throw that right out the window.
A bit of advice for everyone on here. Take a walk over to the sports section and play nice. After all, we're all on the same team here -- we're all Panthers. Not saying anyone should ignore the SA elections; they're very important. But you can all stand to drop your blood pressure a little bit by discussing a less polarizing topic like sports. I mean damn, the baseball team has won 4 out of 5, people!
Can't we all just get along?
Ice Stick on Apr 17, 2008 at 04:20 AM:
Sport
IEC Violations? on Apr 17, 2008 at 05:26 AM:
So...I think the Election Commish should see this site..and realize that someone from one party used someone else's name..someone that everyknow knows.
Allyson K. Wartick on Apr 17, 2008 at 09:42 AM:
Quite honestly, although I don't think it's right that someone else used Jimmy's name, it's no different then when people will write in any given name to try and make that person look bad. He's not the only person this has happened to, and it's pretty stupid all around but the only difference is that he's choosing to pursue it.
If someone posted as Rob Grover, Dan Bahr, Johanan Raatz, AJ Piwarun, Mark Zeihen, Aaron Jeske, or myself (oh wait... those have all already happened!!) there's really no response given to it, we just leave it up to immaturity and let it go at that.
I don't like being misrepresented to other people, especially the students I represent, but at the same time if the only way that someone is going to get their opinion out is to say something under my name that everyone else knows contradicts everything I would say otherwise, I guess I'll take that. I think it's discernable in and of itself when someone says something so polar-opposite of what a person actually stands for.
Idk, although Jimmy's actually taking proactive action on someone using his name to further their own stupid ideas, it kind of sheds light on the immaturity of a lot of people here who post under the names of other students as well.
Grow up.
Re: Allyson K. Wartick on Apr 17, 2008 at 10:55 AM:
You may be elected, but you represent no one.
Isral DeBruin on Apr 17, 2008 at 06:14 PM:
If anyone's name has been misused on this site as in the situation above, please e-mail me and we can change it. Doing that is a violation of our User Content Policy written below the posting field. When you post you are automatically agreeing to that policy.
Play nice, kids.
ACLU = JOKE on Apr 18, 2008 at 08:57 AM:
ACLU = JOKE
ACLU = Justice on Apr 18, 2008 at 11:55 AM:
What is SUFC afraid of the ACLU? No they can't be! They were the brilliant authors of the Sedition Act! lol
ACLU = Busybody Morons. on Apr 18, 2008 at 05:27 PM:
Busybody morons who like to involve themselves in everything.
Chris Walker on Apr 20, 2008 at 07:31 AM:
I'm still curious as to why this hostility towards the ACLU exists. I'm not trying to be a smart-ass or anything; it's a genuine interest in knowing why you don't like the ACLU.
I'd appreciate a well-thought out answer as well, not a one-liner that bashes the group. EXPLAIN to me why the ACLU is a "joke."