2008 Woodie Awards
Your votes pay for their tuition
Issue date: 4/11/08 Section: Opinion
At last Monday's open Pacific University Community Council, advisor Steve Klein motioned to raise the wage of executive officers from $9 to $10 an hour.
He explained that since the wage has not been raised for the past three years that the increase may create more competition for the positions.
If this motion was made a month ago, how many more students would have ran in the PUCC elections?
Being a PUCC officer is a job. It should be paid, especially because of all the work and responsibility each of them holds. Some candidates may be taking this more seriously than others. Those without opposing candidates are a shoe in. But do they actually want it? Are they ethically running for office?
When money comes into play, especially for the "poor college student" what's being taken advantage of? What's being left out? Is the job really getting done?
We were surprised to discover that PUCC officers will now be able to earn up to $400 a month. There are busy students with loans to pay off that could surely use this money, but only a handful of them took advantage of this opportunity
It doesn't appear to be general knowledge that these positions are paid for. Maybe if more students realized that their peers who are voted into office are actually getting paid for their job, we would have more students vote.
The money these students earn can go to anything from lunch money to helping to pay tuition, so why do students seem so uninterested in the election?
He explained that since the wage has not been raised for the past three years that the increase may create more competition for the positions.
If this motion was made a month ago, how many more students would have ran in the PUCC elections?
Being a PUCC officer is a job. It should be paid, especially because of all the work and responsibility each of them holds. Some candidates may be taking this more seriously than others. Those without opposing candidates are a shoe in. But do they actually want it? Are they ethically running for office?
When money comes into play, especially for the "poor college student" what's being taken advantage of? What's being left out? Is the job really getting done?
We were surprised to discover that PUCC officers will now be able to earn up to $400 a month. There are busy students with loans to pay off that could surely use this money, but only a handful of them took advantage of this opportunity
It doesn't appear to be general knowledge that these positions are paid for. Maybe if more students realized that their peers who are voted into office are actually getting paid for their job, we would have more students vote.
The money these students earn can go to anything from lunch money to helping to pay tuition, so why do students seem so uninterested in the election?
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