Jamie
Pollock
Pollock plans to stabalize
student fees, improve campus security
By
Mario Burciaga
Online Forty-Niner
Staff Writer
Jamie Pollock is running for Associated Students Inc. president again because, “some
things can’t be accomplished in one year,” she said. “It’s
been very rewarding as president but I think that with one more year I would
be able to accomplish more.”
In the last year, Pollock increased campus unity, publicized the image of Cal
State Long Beach and protected student interests and resources.
Pollock still has future plans, however, and is eager to accomplish them if
re-elected to a second term.
“
I feel I’ve served the students very well and I think I’ve
done good and will continue to do good for the students and the city,” Pollock
said.
Pollock’s future plans include a continued effort to labor with legislators
in order to stabilize student fees and increase academic advising. She also
wants to stress the necessity of a permanent dining facility near the College
of Business Administration and improve campus security.
Pollock has already begun to take action on her future plans to increase campus
security by taking part in a campus walkthrough with CSULB President F. King
Alexander. The walkthrough, which took place at 10:30 p.m. March 14, was designed
to locate problems, such as campus areas with poor lighting and overgrown bushes.
Pollock
has also pushed to implement security cameras
in the student parking lots and structures.
“ This is not a shopping mall for car thieves,” Pollock said.
Pollock’s past accomplishments include establishing Beach Pride Day—an
opportunity for CSULB students to get discounts for wearing CSULB attire; initiating
a movement to provide $100,000 of supplemental funding for student programs
through the Forty-Niner Shops Inc. and the raising of The Beach flag at Long
Beach City Hall.
Also, Pollock added one more academic chairperson position—each—for
the Academic Advising Committee, the University 100 Committee and the Academic
Appeals Committee.
Although first-year computer science major Ronald Varnell said he believes
more should be done about the parking problem at school, he also believes everything
being done by ASI is going in the right direction.
“ From what I’ve seen and read in the newspaper everything is fine,
I have no complaints,” he said.
“ I represent almost 35,000 students and each one of them has a different
concern. It would be neglect if I was to just focus on one thing,” Pollock
said. “I have to keep focus on the major issues and try to help the university
as a whole.”
Pollock has a bachelor’s degree. She was a senator for the College of
the Arts from 2003-04, a member of the Public Relations Committee from 2004-05,
and in her second year as a member of the Forty-Niner Shops Inc.
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