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University departments with no
tenured faculty members of color.
The allocation of student fees, a
focus of Brooklyn and Nair’s cam
paign, also continues to be a priority
for the new executive.
This summer, Nair worked with
Creighton and former Programs Fi
nance Committee chairwoman
Mary Elizabeth Madden to change
how summer fee money is used.
Unlike incidental fees collected in
other terms, summer fees go into
administrative funds, rather than to
the ASUO as they are intended for,
Nair said.
“Pretty much, the administrative
had total control” over student fee
money, she said. “We’re taking that
back into students’ hands.”
Creighton added that they are
looking into balancing student fees
more evenly over the four terms —
right now, she said, higher student
fees during fall, winter, and spring
end up paying for student services
over the summer.
Putting students in control of
how incidental fee money is spent
is also a top priority for Brooklyn,
who is working to reinstate Cultur
al Forum Director Linda Dieven
dorf. EMU administrators terminat
ed Dievendorf s contract last spring
after she had worked for the Uni
versity for 21 years.
Although the immediate goal is
to get Dievendorf’s job back, Brook
lyn said the larger issue involved is
allowing students, rather than ad
ministrators, to decide what posi
tions will be funded with their in
cidental fee money.
Steve Sawada, last year’s regional
music coordinator for the Cultural
Forum, said without Brooklyn, it
would have been difficult to organ
ize support for Dievendorf in the
coming year.
Sawada, who is graduating from
the University this summer, said
that like him, nearly all the stu
dents who worked in the Cultural
Forum last year will be gone by the
end of the summer. But because
Brooklyn was there to take charge
of the issue when former President
Jay Breslow ended his term, there
will already be someone to lead stu
Jessie Swimeley Emerald
ASUO President Niida Brooklyn adds her thoughts to a meeting in the Multicultural Center
as she reads over some papers.
dent activism next year.
“Nilda basically spearheaded
this,” he said. “She’s been very sup
portive and helpful.”
He added that he is appreciative
of student government efforts to ed
ucate students on hojv their stu
dent fees are used, because, he said,
it is an issue “the whole campus
should understand.”
But while outreach and student
fees are two of Brooklyn and Nair’s
most well-known goals, those are
only part of their plans for student
government.
“We want to do so much,” Nair
said.
To accomplish this, she said,
they often work separately on proj
ects with a team of staff members.
Nair, for example, is working
with the student diversity coordi
nator for University enrollment
services to find ways to retain
more faculty and students of color
on campus.
Brooklyn is looking into updat
ing the University’s multicultural
requirement to include a broader
range of classes that can fulfill it. In
particular, she said, she would like
to see classes that include a “social
justice” element.
And over the year, Brooklyn said,
she and Nair have plans for several
large office campaigns, including
one focusing on educating students
about rental and housing options,
and one concentrating on energy
and conservation.
Whatever the year brings, Brook
lyn said she is optimistic that she
and Nair will succeed in accom
plishing what they set out to do
when they were elected.
“This one of the funnest jobs I’ve
ever had,” she said. “And I’m so ex
cited for next year.”
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