This coming school year will be a different one for me, because I now have a new mandate to serve, a mandate in which my fellow school mates had given to me.
As the incoming session of Student Congress will come, I will push forward my agendas and my vision for the entire student community. This coming August, I will ask the Student Congress to lobby as a whole my initiative to the UH Board of Regents to grant an at least 2-year moratorium on Tuition Fee Increases effective School Year 2009-2010. For the past 3 years, the UH System had systematized a 3-year plan to increase tuition fees on UH System schools effective School Year 2006-2007.
With the current slowdown of our nation’s economy, growing unemployment and rising prices of commodities and gas prices, I will personally lobby in the University of Hawaii Student Caucus for an action that will ease the students’ and parents’ financial capabilities in the next two years as the next administration, whether a Democrat or a Republican will be elected to devise a plan to fix our nation’s economy.
We must ease at least the economic pain of these simple working and non-working students that are struggling everyday to save their hard-earned money for their tuitions. There are at least 50,000 UH Students and they are the one who are affected in this crisis.
So come and join me in this movement to address this impending crisis and provide a clear solution. With your help, you and I, we can do this.