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Guest Column: What ASCSU has been doing for you
Byron Moore
Issue date: 2/11/08 Section: Opinion
ASCSU has been working hard since the beginning of the semester to address issues that affect our daily lives as students. Here's a rundown of what we're doing.
The Morgan Library is easily the most universal study space and resource for students on the CSU campus. However, its closing time has long been considered too limited. The current Library hours do not service a multitude of diverse schedules. This year, ASCSU has been taking steps to address this issue.
Earlier in the year we passed legislation encouraging the library to re-examine their current hours and consider suggestions for library hour extension. This legislation was forwarded on to the Dean of Libraries.
This semester, we officially met with the Dean of Libraries for a follow-up meeting. A proposal is nearly finished regarding the specific requirements of extending the library's operating hours.
The library is currently assessing the most financially and logistically feasible way to extend library hours. Currently we are waiting on solid figures from the library so that we can proceed from there. We were glad to see that the library has been working toward a solution.
It is in the students' interest that we exercise as much responsibility as possible with student resources, and we will continue to investigate the best solution for extending library hours.
In other news, the Associated Students of Colorado held a rally for cheaper textbooks on Friday. During the rally, ASCSU members visited the capitol to help the ASC with the lobby for affordable textbooks. A bill, the "College Textbooks Affordability Act," is currently working its way through the state senate.
The bill addresses the issue of textbook affordability, and is making progress, but has a long way to go.
The "College Textbooks Affordability Act" seeks to bring transparency to the textbook market by making textbook publishers disclose the price of the book to professors, the revisions they made to the edition and how long they will keep the book on the market.
The Morgan Library is easily the most universal study space and resource for students on the CSU campus. However, its closing time has long been considered too limited. The current Library hours do not service a multitude of diverse schedules. This year, ASCSU has been taking steps to address this issue.
Earlier in the year we passed legislation encouraging the library to re-examine their current hours and consider suggestions for library hour extension. This legislation was forwarded on to the Dean of Libraries.
This semester, we officially met with the Dean of Libraries for a follow-up meeting. A proposal is nearly finished regarding the specific requirements of extending the library's operating hours.
The library is currently assessing the most financially and logistically feasible way to extend library hours. Currently we are waiting on solid figures from the library so that we can proceed from there. We were glad to see that the library has been working toward a solution.
It is in the students' interest that we exercise as much responsibility as possible with student resources, and we will continue to investigate the best solution for extending library hours.
In other news, the Associated Students of Colorado held a rally for cheaper textbooks on Friday. During the rally, ASCSU members visited the capitol to help the ASC with the lobby for affordable textbooks. A bill, the "College Textbooks Affordability Act," is currently working its way through the state senate.
The bill addresses the issue of textbook affordability, and is making progress, but has a long way to go.
The "College Textbooks Affordability Act" seeks to bring transparency to the textbook market by making textbook publishers disclose the price of the book to professors, the revisions they made to the edition and how long they will keep the book on the market.
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