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Orange Party’s Party Platform

The Orange Party is a passionate, experienced group of student advocates that come from various communities here on campus and our three platforms are Community, Opportunity, and Action. We want to improve campus inclusivity for all kinds of students and create a greater sense of COMMUNITY, further OPPORTUNITY through the increase and expansion of resources and diversity initiatives, and create lasting ACTION and change through advocacy and by fighting for students’ rights.  

Community:

  1. Climate and Safety: More lights around campus, sexual assault awareness and discipline, cultural awareness, & cultural competency trainings
  2. Outreach & Inclusivity: Commuter events and resource fairs, improving transfer student orientations & increasing transfer student resources   
  3. Student Life: Make downtown R’side accessible to students through shuttles and events

Opportunity:

  1. Student Resources and Advising: Lower wait times for academic and mental health advising, establish roll over printing, & more peer mentors/SI sessions/tutors
  2. Diversity: Increase faculty diversity, greater outreach to underprivileged communities, & expanding diversity initiatives
  3. Student Hunger & Mental Health: Meal swipe option for freshmen at the HUB, meal plans for commuters and upperclassmen, make R’Pantry more accessible, increased resources for student mental health

Action:

  1. Student Advocacy: Campaign, lobby, and mobilize for student rights and lower tuition and advocate to faculty/admin for an open source textbook program  
  2. Accountability: More office hours, less closed door meetings, bulletin boards with ASUCR updates
  3. Transportation and Parking issues: Relieve high cost of permits, increased accessibility to parking lots, expanded shuttle service and hours

[YOUR]SIDE’s Party Platform

[YOUR]SIDE is committed to raise campus PRIDE,  make PROGRESS, and EMPOWER our students. The following is some of the projects and initiative we plan to do.
PRIDE: Building a positive campus climate where students feel connected with the university by increasing campus pride. We believe UCR students belong to one of the world’s finest universities, shouldn’t it feel like it?

  • R’Gear: Free UCR Hoodies
  • Scotty’s Fair: Carnivals to Unite Students/Orgs
  • R’Senior Gifts: Gifts to Appreciate Seniors
  • SAVE HEAT from Being Permanently Cancelled

PROGRESS: Partnering with our administration, community and the City & State Government in order to enact real change through student government. By making small changes to Riverside, we can improve our own college experience.

  • STOP TUITION HIKE IN 2018: Advocate to Extend Prop 30 Sunset Clause
  • Free Subsidized Uber Program
  • Bike-share Program: Free Bike Rentals on Campus
  • Recognition of Cahuilla (Qua-ell-uh) Tribal Lands
  • Improve Free Parking during Finals
  • Free Scantrons/Blue Books

EMPOWERMENT: Empowering communities through self-representation and self-determination. Improving student government to expand opportunities and streamline our student body governance by decreasing bureaucracy.

  • Pass the Torch: Free Book-Share & Rentable Clickers Program
  • Legal Service for Undocumented Students
  • Institutionalized Food Pantry
  • Spiritual/Religious Center: A Safe Space for Spiritual Practices of All Types
  • Diversity Conference Fostering Unity and Instilling Cultural Competency