1991_03 The Daily Collegian March 1991

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The CoUegian • March 6, 1991
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SRG: Members dispute over ideologies
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months that the voices of the
communities have been stifled.
and in order to progress and pro¬
ceed Unity-SRC needed to go back
to the communities. So we had a
meeting, and one of the primary
objectives of the meeting was to
reaffirm the commitment of the
communities to the coalition,"
senator Cyndi McCollister said
"One of the things that hap¬
pened was Karen Cogley and Jose
Lopez showed up at this meeting
and it was felt by a number of
members of the coalition thatthey
do not represent the community,
and they only represent their own
ideology and work counter to the
coalition," McCollister said.
According to Lopez, "If this was
truly a Unity-SRG mecbng, no
people who came would ha ve been
excluded. It was not a real meet¬
ing. By excluding us, they ex¬
cluded the entire Chicano, Afri¬
can-American, gay, lesbian, Na¬
tive American and  women's
communities."
Avitia e xplained that al¬
though Daves, Creenand Thomas
wereasked to leave the meetingas
well, only Cogley and Lopez were
targeted for expulsion from the
party.
"1 personally didn't mind Don
and Stacey being there. My reser¬
vation lies with Karen and Jose,"
A vida said.
'They came as a group, and it
was obvious they had planned to
come as a group. I only thoughtit
right that I ask them to leave as a
group."
According to A vi ba and McCol¬
lister, wh# said they wereasked to
speakonbehalfof Unity-SRG, the
coalition believed thatCogleyand
Lopez were too often acting uni¬
laterally on issues in the name of
Unity-SRC.
"Other people were being left
out of the decision-making proc¬
ess. Karen and Jose were making
decisions for the entire group,"
Tax: student help
available
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The table will be staffed by
two students at a time, each of
whom underwent 24 hours ot
IRS training in January.
Rochelle Hopper, anaccount-
ing major and member of Beta
Alpha Psi, is one of about a
dozen people whoa ttended the
training sessions. The IRS gave
out manuals which included
pertinent information and
shared previous experiences
"The book is more thcorv,"
she said. "They (the IRS train¬
ers) gave us more practical
advice."
They were not trained to do
the more complicated things,
said Hopper, "because we
would probably do [them]
wrong."
Some things were empha¬
sized because questions would
likely come up. For example,
renterstredit was discussed at
length because most CSUF stu¬
dents live in apartments.
The students arc trained to
handle thc three federal 1040
forms and the California 540A
form primarily. Although those
with schedules A and C forms
can also be assisted, if they are
very simple.
"We don't want people com¬
ing to them with complicated
things," Crane said. "You have
to understand that they're not
trained to do that."
The students have access to
an IRS phone number that the
general public does not have, so
if questions arise they can be an¬
swered.
"They are going to take the
information at face value. Thev
are not responsible to audit,"
said Crane.'They can't do that."
'This gives the students a
good opportunity to put into
practice what they've been
learning and provide a valu¬
able service to thecommunity."
she said.
"For us (the accounting stu¬
dents) the benefit is learning to
work with people and learning
more abou t income tax forms. 11
iskind oflikeworkexperience,"
Hopper said. "That's really
good."
A lot oi people have been
using thc service so far, she
added. "1 think the library is a
good place to have it. It is con¬
venient."
McCollister said.
One of those decisions ap¬
parently included a controversial
anti-war resolution rejected Feb
26bv the ASI Senate.
"We at Unity-SRC were
not even informedas members that
Jose was going to present that
resolution. We were not even in¬
formed it was Jose's resolution.
Some of us who didn't support it,
didn't support it for our own rea¬
sons.
"One thing is we weren't even
told about it. If supposedly we're
all working together, and we're
going to stick our necks out for
this resolution, we should at least
know about it," Avitia said.
Lopez insists they did.
"That resolution wasdiscu&sed
for three hours at the I ASI Senate]
meeting. It was in all the mail¬
boxes long before that. I was not
the only one who wrote that reso-
lution; several others from SRC.
worked on it as well," Lopez said.
He added the resolution was
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not intended as a Unity-SRG pro¬
posal.
"Nobody told any of the sena¬
tors they had to vote for it. The
resolution stands on itsown merit.
lt includes thc politicsof SRC, soif
[individual senatorsi didn't vote
for it, they have a problem with
their own politics," Lopez said.
"There are malcontents in the
party who probably thought they
had to vote against the resolution
in order to get elected."
"No one who voted against the
resolution did so because it was
Jose's," Avitia said. 'They voted
against it for their own individual
reasons."
McCollister added, "One of thc
original goals of Unity-SRC was
student empowerment. It was to
give people a voice in student
government that have been tradi¬
tionally locked out. It was sup¬
posed tobe more accessible tomore
students."
Avitia said the party was con¬
cerned there may be a perception
Unity-SRG is beginning to prac¬
tice tactics they opposed when the
opposing Reality party held power
in the ASI Senate.
"If we continue to allow Karen
andjose'sinfluencetobeallowed,
weinessencearegoingtobedoing
the same the things the Reality
party did for a lot of years.
"We will be practicing the same
things, and we will be a bunch of
hypocrites. And that is why we
have to reaffirm this coalition,"
Avitia said.
"Regard less of a 11 the stuff thafs
happened, were going to put all���this behind us. Many of us have
never been given this chance. It
was our first time, and it was. a
learning experience. Wearegoing
to proceed.
"Ifs ultimately the coalition as
a whole that will speak, not indi¬
viduals."
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