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Maggie Quinn and Gina Feghali for UPUA President and Vice President Candidacy Platform A Common Sense Approach to Strengthen Your Student Voice Visit us at www.VoteQuinnPSU.com Vote March 28 th at vote.psu.edu

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Maggie Quinn and Gina Feghali

for UPUA President and Vice President 

Candidacy Platform 

A Common Sense Approach

to

Strengthen Your Student Voice

Visit us at www.VoteQuinnPSU.com

Vote March 28th at vote.psu.edu

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 About the Candidates

MAGGIE QUINN is a Junior majoring in Public Relations from Doylestown, PA. Shegraduated from Gwynedd Mercy Academy in 2009, where she served as the Senior Class

President. At Penn State, Maggie served as a member of the UPUA Intern Program, Off-

Campus Representative and Vice Chair of the Governmental Affairs Committee, and

most recently as a member of the Executive Board and Press Secretary. Maggie is also a

Homecoming captain on the Alumni Relations Committee, Executive Director of College

Republicans, and a Public Relations Committee Member for THON. Maggie is excited to

use her extensive expertise in Student Government and her love for all things Penn State

to enact many exciting changes at the university.

GINA FEGHALI is a Junior double majoring in Broadcast Journalism and Political

Science from Stamford, Connecticut. She graduated from Westhill High School in 2009

 where she was Captain of the Cheerleading Squad. Gina was a member of the UPUA 

 Assembly where she represented the College of Communications, and held the positionof Programming Subcommittee Chair for the Academic Affairs Committee. She has been

a proud sister of Delta Zeta Sorority since her freshman year, and she served as a Greek 

 Week Captain for Spring 2011. Gina is also very honored to have been recently selected

as a Lion Ambassador and looks forward to using her passion for Dear Old State to

make a positive change in the life of every Penn State student.

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Making a Stronger Student Voice 

Maggie and Gina believe that UPUA’s single greatest responsibility needs to be 

inclusion of as many student opinions as possible. Its second greatest

responsibility is to make sure those opinions are perfectly translated into excellent

programs and services.

UPUA is granted representation on boards or commissions within and outside of the

university that nearly outnumber the members in UPUA. Maggie and Gina will work to

compile a list of all the external boards on which UPUA serves. They will assign people

to each committee that will be able to attend every meeting and report back to the

 Assembly on those meetings. Furthermore, Maggie and Gina will work with the chair of 

the assembly to hold these members accountable for their responsibilities to external

committees. Too many times committee meetings are missed and the student voice isdiminished. Under President Quinn and Vice President Feghali, the student voice will

stronger than ever.

Increasing Collaboration for All Organizations 

Encampment is a gathering of students that strengthens relationships and provides

networking opportunities throughout the university. Encampment can no longer be a

one-day retreat as it has been in recent years. It needs to be the best source of 

collaboration on campus. The event, held for the last few years in the weeks before Fall

Break, proves to be a success every year, but it is only one single event. Maggie and Gina

instead propose the Encampment Series. To start, Encampment will be held earlier

in the fall semester. After that, Maggie and Gina and all of UPUA will host a meeting

 with all encampment attendees to regroup, discuss new ways to collaborate, and

continue working together with organizations from every corner of campus to make ourprograms and projects the best they can possibly be.

These meetings will not just be for organization leadership. Any student who sees a need

for an awareness campaign, program, or new initiative will be able to come and share

his or her ideas with the group enabling organizations to get involved in what students

 want on an individual basis.

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Enhancing Student Responsibility 

Excessive alcohol consumption has long been a problem at Penn State. Maggie and Gina believe that we need to remember that students from nearly every corner of this

university choose to socialize, and stereotyping just isn’t working. A broad approach to

the problem is needed – it can’t just be a single-focus issue. That’s why we propose a

new program called The Stupid Drink .

The Stupid Drink was successfully implemented at Syracuse University as a way to teach

students about the negative effects of excessive alcohol consumption and how to enjoy 

alcohol responsibly without endangering yourself or inconveniencing the people around

 you. The Stupid Drink program discusses the fine line between “drinking” and what

pushes a person over the edge to “drinking too much” resulting in poor decisions.The

program utilizes Facebook, YouTube, coasters, bar stamps, bathroom stickers and other

conventional and non-conventional ways of advertising. Maggie and Gina will, through

partnership with Syracuse, bring this program to Penn State and the State College

community through Student Affairs, the Tavern Owners Association, and other

concerned parties. We will collaborate with other organizations whom have long been at

the forefront of the battle against binge drinking, such as the Interfraternity Council and

the Panhellenic Council.

 Adopt-A-Cop 

Under certain circumstances, law enforcement is required to take action in social

activities that occur off-campus. Fraternity houses are sometimes misinterpreted, just

like any other college residence, but many times law enforcement is paying extra

attention to fraternity houses.

Through UPUA’s representative to the State College Borough Council and extensive

conversation with the Interfraternity Council, Maggie and Gina will suggest and help to

implement an Adopt-A-Cop program, where each fraternity house will be assigned a

police officer to develop a working relationship with. This will not only improve town-

and-gown relations, but also will give each police officer a better understanding of the

Greek culture.

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 wishes to join. Members will travel to Harrisburg to organize Legislative Focus Groups,

 where discussions about government and Penn State’s appropriation will take place.

Maggie and Gina will work with other student governments to implement this at the

start of their term.

Green Greeks Recycling Program 

Gina has been a member of the Greek Community since her freshman year. In that time,

she and many Penn Staters have spent time at some of Penn State’s fraternity houses.

 When you have that many men living in one house, there’s inevitable frequent

consumption of recyclable goods. Maggie and Gina will work with the Greek Councils to

start a new green recycling program to coincide with the university’s vision of continued

sustainability. This program will ideally work with all fraternity houses to ensure the

maximum amount of recyclable goods will be disposed into the proper receptacles.

Sustainable State 

Sustainability has become a major initiative at Penn State. It’s important that Maggie

and Gina’s administration work with organizations like the Sustainability Coalition to

make every Penn State Facility more environmentally friendly. Maggie and Gina will

 work to add more hydration stations to classroom buildings and residence halls.

Maggie and Gina will work with Housing and Food Services to eliminate the use of 

plastic bags in area commons and other dining facilities, while advocating for the

expansion of low-waste living options such as Earth House. Also, Maggie and Gina want to work with the Off Campus Student Union to increase recycling downtown by 

encouraging apartment complexes to place recycling bins next to other garbage

receptacles. Through collaboration with the people and groups who know this

movement best, Penn State can achieve long-lasting success.

Incorporating Every Culture into the Community 

Today, Penn State is a melting pot, filled with people of every different race, nationality,

religion, gender, sexual orientation, and virtually every other aspect that makes usdifferent. It is a priority of both Maggie and Gina,to work with World in Conversation to

expand its reach and incorporate that project into the curriculum for all new students to

improve the climate of the campus and also act as training for the global society we will

enter after graduation.

Many cultural groups want to put on programs that include food. As of the publishing

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date of this platform, UPAC has yet to change its policy toward food. The Quinn-Feghali

administration will actively lobby UPAC to change its policy to allow Student Activity 

Fee money to be used for food as part of a cultural event.

Learning From Our Past  

 As UPUA grows, it’s important that we remember where we’ve been. In the years since

its inception, UPUA has worked on many initiatives that have since been forgotten or

fallen through the cracks. Maggie and Gina will work to obtain legislation from the very 

 beginning of UPUA and implement those old policies to their administration. If they are

no longer relevant, then they’ll be closed out for good. There are good ideas floating

around from years past and Maggie and Gina will make sure the best ones are continued

from UPUA assemblies past.

For the Future: Laying the Foundation for a Strong Penn State 

Maggie and Gina recognize that as juniors, a portion of the work they will accomplish

over their term of office will only take effect after they have graduated. It would be

irresponsible to ignore that fact, and it is with that in mind that Maggie and Gina will

have to look to the future - what happens after they’ve left campus.

Penn State’s President Rodney Erickson ends his term in 2014, therefore, the university 

 will likely begin the process of selecting a new leader during Maggie and Gina’s term.

 Along with CCSG and GSA, UPUA will advocate for overwhelming student

representation throughout the entire process.

Recently, the presidents of the three student governments proposed the six points for

change. Maggie and Gina will work with the other student government leaders to see

these changes come to fruition, especially with regard to increased representation on the

Board of Trustees.

Common Sense Approaches to Improve our Penn State Experience  

There are many small-scale improvements that can be made at Penn State. Maggie and

Gina will be working constantly to solve problems that come up throughout the year.

These self-explanatory projects include:

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-Making the Wall Street Journal available as part of the Newspaper Readership Program

-Adding more rooms to the online Events Management Reservation System, to allow for

easier scheduling of club meetings and other events

-Utilizing existing student expertise to make platform planks the best they can be, such

as asking IST majors to help with the Marketplace as part of their existing major

requirements

-Continuing UPUA’s positive relationship with CATA to make sure that the needs of the

student body are consistently met

Wrapping It Up

Maggie and Gina are the best candidates on the ballot for UPUA President and Vice

President because they know what it takes to be successful. Through their involvement

 both in and out of UPUA, they have learned how to reach out beyond the walls of UPUA 

and even the HUB. They know, without a doubt, that the inclusion of every population

at Penn State and not just those involved in student government is the only way toimprove the lives of each and every Penn State student.

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For where we’ve gone… 

For where we’re going… 

For the chance to succeed… 

For the families who brought us here… 

For those who came before us… 

For those who will come after us… 

For the fight … 

For anyone who doubts what Penn State can do… 

But most of all,

For The Glory.

Vote Quinn Feghali on March 28th