Thirteen students from the Students for Quality Education gave away pastries and candy outside Brotman Hall Tuesday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. in an effort to get students to call Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and ask him to ratify AB 1413.
The bill “would express findings and declarations of the Legislature, as well as the intent of the Legislature, relating to executive compensation of top officials of the California State University,” according to the bill’s text.
“We were going to set up our booth next to the [California Faculty Association’s] booth in the USU but we thought we’d go where more students pass by,” said Nina Delavin, a junior pre-nursing major and a member of the SQE.
According to Delavin, the bill would check some of the decisions made by the CSU Board of Trustees.
“This would basically allow [the legislature] to send a delegate to CSU Board of Trustees meetings,” Delavin said.
The SQE’s actions were to inform students rather than protest the pay raises received by CSU Board of Trustees.
“We’re not protesting, just campaigning,” said Nia Olmstead, a sophomore music education major.
The group was partnering with the CFA, which, according to Delavin, funds most of the SQE’s actions, to campaign against the pay raises received by the CSU Board of Trustees.
