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Students need Beach Pride
If you’ve been on campus for several semesters
then you probably remember all the talk
and excitement about Beach Pride Day and
the various other activities centered around
the idea of increasing student participation
and school pride here at Cal State Long
Beach.
Last year, Associated Students Inc. voted
on the Beach Pride referendum, which established
funding for the Beach Patrol club, developed
to encourage students to participate in
activities and events at The Pyramid.
Well, in case you haven’t noticed, there
has not been a lot of talk about Beach Pride
or the Beach Patrol this semester.
It’s understandable if you are not alarmed
by the sudden disappearance of Beach Pride
talk around campus. Most likely Beach Pride
doesn’t really affect your everyday life.
However there is one reason why you should
at least be bothered a little bit by the
lack of Beach Pride talk - You pay for it.
Every CSULB student pays an additional $44
in tuition fees to fund A.S.I. and Beach
Pride activities. So where is this Beach
Pride Day? Where is the Beach Patrol?
These programs are great ways to boost school
pride, and school pride is necessary to
maintain the morale at educational institutions.
Nothing would be wrong with these programs
if they were currently active.
In light of the On-line Forty-Niner article,
“Lack of Communication Stops Beach Pride,”
by Todd Leland, it seems as though somebody
dropped the Beach Pride ball somewhere along
the way since last semester.
In the same article, Raul Alcala, adviser
for the Beach Pride Center, said that the
Beach Pride Day program is something that
can be put into action relatively quickly,
so why haven’t we heard anything about it
yet?
We are already almost one month into the
fall 2002 semester, only 12 weeks remain
for A.S.I to get this Beach Pride matter
up and active and put CSULB students’ $44
to some Beach Pride use.
Forty-four
dollars is not an astronomical amount of
money for each individual student - that
is probably why most students do not care
to be informed about where their money goes,
but $44 from more than 30,000 students adds
up to quite a lot of money. We deserve at
least something for that money.
A.S.I needs to be encouraged to move a little
quicker on the subject of Beach Pride, and
students should care about what is being
done with their money.
If
you care about what is being done with your
money, and you want to see these Beach Pride
activities in action then go to the weekly
Senate meetings on Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m.
and tell the A.S.I officials what you think
about it. The meetings are open to all students
who wish to attend, and at the beginning
there’s time to express concerns or opinions.
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