ASUO continued from page 1 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. 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