Fall 2009 Senator

motorres@ucdavis.edu

Office Hours:

M, 4-6pm

T, 12-2pm @ Cross Cultural Center

Mo Torres is a fourth year History and Chicano Studies major from Sacramento, California.

UCD Involvement / Experience:

• Transfer Orientation Leader, Summer 2008
  

• Freshman Orientation Leader, Summer 2008
  

• Mixed/Multi-Ethnic Community Intern at the Cross Cultural Center
  

• Undergraduate Volunteer, Clínica Tepati
  

• Planning Committee, Middle East/South Asian Leadership Retreat
  

• Planning Committee, Mixed Heritage Week 2008
  

• Undergrad Assistant, AIDS & Society
  

• Member, La Familia
  

• Member, Mixed Student Union
  

• Student Assistant, The History Project
  

• Attendee, Middle East/South Asian Leadership Retreat, 2008
  

• Education Abroad Program participant: Bahia, Brasil Fall 2007
  

• TRANSFER STUDENT HOUSING

Advocate for housing to be made available to new transfer students near campus. Work on reserving section of planned West Village community for transfer students.

• ETHNIC & CULTURAL STUDIES

Continue the fight to bring a Chican@ Studies PhD to Davis


Push for allowing African American & African Studies, Asian American Studies, and Native American Studies majors to graduate with departmental honors


Expand the Middle East/South Asian Studies program, and push for more languages at UC Davis

• USE OF RACE IN UC STATISTICS

UCD does not accurately represent the student body in terms of race


Southeast Asian students are under-represented, yet they go unnoticed because of UC's use of the umbrella category "Asian"


Mixed race students are not given a choice in how to identify - the UC does it for them


Work with students throughout the UC system to fight for systemwide change

• ASUCD BLOOD DRIVE

Men who have sex with men are not allowed to donate blood under FDA regulations. Many college campuses throughout California are banning blood drives.


Work towards allowing blood drives to continue at UC Davis, but with the condition that they must be accompanied with an educational / advocacy campaign to alert students of the problems with the FDA regulation.