Michael Barrita, commissioner of external affairs, continued his plans to distribute a list of phone numbers to students so they can contact their elected representative, at the ASCC Cabinet meeting on Monday.

He announced his plan at the previous Cabinet meeting, saying that after the elections he wanted to give students the information so they could have an opportunity to express their concern over some of the changes that would affect California.

At this point, Barrita explained that he is trying to figure out how to give out contact information. He brought an unfinished sample of what the information would provide that will include:

• A description of the legislative, executive and judicial branches through the state government.
• The description of each person titled and their duties as well as a map of the district within California
• Lastly, a list of phone numbers of representatives from each district

During the ASCC Senate meeting last Wednesday Senator Waleed Nueirat and Senator Alyssa Huerta said that they were interested in working with Barrita to distribute the information to students.

Some students felt that Barrita’s plan seems like a good idea.

Jose Velasco, criminal justice major, said, that during the Nov. 7 election he did go out and vote and that he is interested in looking at the information that would be provided for him and other students.

Admittedly, he and Sal De La Torre, criminal justice major, don’t know who their elected district representative is.

“I only know who they are in my political science class,” Velasco said, “but not by name.”

One of the things that were unbeknownst to De la Torre was that college tuition was lowered from $26 per unit to $20 per unit that will take effect during the spring semester.

“I only heard about the drop of tuition,” he said, “but I didn’t know the details.”

De La Torre commented that once the information of the district representatives is out, lower tuition fees is something that he would address to those in office. “Not only tuition,” he continued, “but another would be the price of books as well.”

Velasco said that he too would be interested in knowing about what the government would do and that he said that it was a good thing that the ASCC was looking into making contact information available to all students, “because those in student government represent the students.”

He hopes that the information will be available where students will be able to see it and would hope it would grab their attention.

Barrita said that he hoped to have the information available in the student activities office and the library.