Winter 2010 Senator

pcwitana@ucdavis.edu

Office Hours:

M, 3-5pm

W, 12-2pm

Previn Witana is a fourth year Bio-Sci major studying to be Pre-Med.

PLATFORM ISSUES:

WIRELESS INTERNET IN THE DORMS
As many of you are undoubtedly aware, many of the dorms on campus still require students to use an ethernet cable to access the internet. In this day and age, when laptops are carried around with you, this makes absolutely no sense. Let me do the work for you and bring wireless internet to the dorms.

ENERGY EFFICIENT CUSTODIAL VEHICLES
Once again, there exists a system in place that is entirely archaic. Why is it that UC Davis, a university in which many students make efforts to go green, still uses custodial vehicles which run on diesel? Allow me to work with Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) to bring in more energy efficient vehicles for the custodial staff.

DEAD DAYS
Some of you may not remember, but when I was a freshman there was ALWAYS a dead day between classes and finals, as there should be. However now, we don't even get ones that fall on weekends. Look at this quarter, the last day of classes is on a Monday and finals begin that Tuesday! Additionally, the administration has tried to compact the finals schedule, which may seem like a good idea, but not the way in which it is being implemented . There are now 8:30pm-10:30pm finals. If a student has an 8am final the next day, how is that student expected to succeed? I promise to lobby hard and do as much as I can to ensure there will, in the near future, be a dead day every quarter.