Students for SA Reform

Students for SA Reform strongly condemns any targeted harassment of members for their votes. We remain committed to reforming the Student Assembly to create a more supportive and collaborative environment.

🚨**ENDORSEMENT** 🚨

VOTING HAS NOW BEGUN!

Students for SA Reform is pleased to make two further endorsements.

Remember to vote and tell your friends to do so as well. It takes only a few minutes and will bring needed change to the SA's culture.

Vote at: Vote.Assembly.Cornell.edu

**ENDORSEMENT**

In advance of voting starting in less than one hour, Students for SA is proud to endorse the following candidates. They truly embody the reform agenda and electing them will go along way towards improving the SA.

Vote at: Vote.Assembly.Cornell.edu

The SA Election is important to securing comprehensive SA reform. Currently, there are open seats for Freshman Representative, Transfer Representative, Student with Disabilities Representative At-Large, Minority Students Representative At-Large, and Undergraduate Representative to the University Assembly.
For those interested, the SA Elections committee is hosting a candidate information meeting this evening at 9pm.

http://t01.list.cornell.edu/t/3185751/67205742/1440042/1047/

Students for SA Reform is proud to announce its plan to more equally apportion SA seats.* This will ensure that every student's vote is worth the same and help the SA live up to its democratic ideals. The full proposal can be read below.

*There would be no change to the non-college seats.

This coming year will be unlike any other. Students for SA Reform hopes the SA will make sure students learning remotely are adequately represented.

The Student Body has the right to know how its elected representatives are voting. As part of its reform platform, Students for SA Reform calls on the SA to record individual votes on all substantive motions.

Students for SA Reform is calling on the SA to take the long overdue step of releasing video and quality audio of its meetings and will continue to propose reforms to restore accountability, transparency, and integrity to the SA.

In the current SA elections structure, incumbents announce their intentions to seek office on the same day that challengers do, making it impossible to hold individual SA members to account or draw specific policy differences with incumbent members. In order to restore individual accountability and ensure that prospective challengers are not disadvantaged, Students for SA Reform is proposing its first substantive recommendation: current members of the SA must declare their intentions one week earlier than challengers.

This simple change would help the student body hold officeholders accountable for their actions and would level the playing field on election day. We are calling on the membership of the SA to put aside their own electoral interests and support this common-sense reform.

SAFC cannot be allowed to ignore their own rules while spending “surplus” funds, check out this Daily Sun article to see how much the SA wanted to raise your Student Activity Fee by.

https://cornellsun.com/2020/02/06/after-40-percent-hike-to-student-activity-fee-safc-aims-to-boost-club-funding/

Some Frequently Asked Questions about the inciting incident for this reform. A quick crash course on the SA, SAFC, and University rules that were broken.

Here are some reasons to support Student Assembly reform!