#SFatPauley: Joshua Smith Wants Student Sideline Seats, Campus Unity, BN Extends Facebook Ad Campaign
by Achilles on May 3, 2011 11:56 AM PDT
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UCLA students are capable of doing amazing things. The latest example is here.
Now our students are working to make history on campus. UCLA students are partaking in a historic vote pertaining to our storied athletics program this week. This is the first time students are voting on a major athletics issue in about 40 years. The last time they took such a vote, they unfortunately voted down the idea of on campus stadium.
This time we want the students to say NO. We want them to say NO to UCLA athletics effort to take away 40+ year tradition of court-side seating for students. We started off on a great note yesterday with news of two Bruin legends coming out in support of our quest to save sideline seating. We then got another boost with the vocal online support of Anthony Stover. We upped our effort by launching a 24 hour ad campaign on Facebook. We have more good news to pass on today.
It appears that Bruin superstar freshman center Joshua Smith is supporting efforts to save sideline seating. It also appears that two major campus student groups listed in the USAC elections are uniting and coming out against UCLA Athletics' effort to take away our students sidelines seats.
We are going to return the favor by extending our ad buy on Facebook for at least another 24 hours. That's right. Our ads from yesterday generated thousands of views and we want to keep this going. Our ads are now going to run through tomorrow.
Let's keep the momentum on our side. The number of petition signers is approaching 1000. The number of Facebook event attendees with pledge to vote (NO) is well over 850. Can we get both those markers over 1,000 today?
Hopefully our students can make history on Thursday night. Let's egg them on.
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I think Morgan Center is probably getting a little nervous
The bear had been hibernating. Then they poked the bear, and poked it pretty hard, but figured they were safe because the bear just rolled over. Now it looks like the bear is waking up.
Morgan Center, do not make the bear angry. The bear will rouse up its youthful spirit (with thanks to Mr. Shakespeare) and start making a lot of noise. And you probably won’t like what happens at that point. (I’m sure Senior Bureaucrat Guerrero promised Ultra Hyper Bureaucrat Block that there would be no fallout from the Pauley land grab. Bureaucrats don’t like it when people start making noise.)
I bet all the current and former players would support student seating on the sidelines
Kudos to BruinKid and UCLA14 for taking the initiative and actually speaking with the students that this affects the most – the players – and then sharing their responses.
I’d love to see a mainstream reporter (hello, BSPN, LAT, any local news, hello??) who has easy access to the players have the similar sense to just ask them that.
Oh, yeah, easy access, don’t rock your own boat, right…
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Students.
It seems like their leadership threw them under the bus, but they are the ones that really need to step up and protest this. Really surprised we aren’t hearing more from campus groups, its not like UCLA is in summer session either.
Campaigning
A friend and I were standing on a ledge between the IM field and Pauley holding up signs and telling people to vote no. It seems like most students don’t agree with the new seating plan. It almost seems impossible to me that a yes vote would prevail. It’s definitely going to come down to the No’s and the No Preference’s.
by UCLA14 on May 3, 2011 3:47 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Agree. Its a tad silly to think that the people who don't care would vote.
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
Sweet.
Are you going to be out there again tomorrow?
Probably Not
Tomorrow I don’t have much free time in between classes. I may be out there from 12:30-2 either in bruin plaza or in the same spot I was today. I recommend people still go out regardless of whether or not I’m there. All you have to say is “Vote No on the new Student Section Proposal! Keep the students on the sidelines! Nobody wants to sit behind the basket!” Posters help a lot.
A really good place to flyer/petition
is right where bruin walk splits, one path going to the west side/front of powell, the other headed straight toward the back of powell/schoenberg. Pick the beginning of one of those two paths and get the word out. Students find it hard to just rush past you, and a lot of people are lounding around there.
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
This is what we need, Bruins.
This is action.
My generation lost the on-campus football stadium for everyone who came after us because no one knew about the vote. The outcome was on the order of 325 to 275. I don’t think there was anything nefarious – the supporters of the on-campus stadium just didn’t know about the vote.
You guys are doing the right thing. You’re not being bystanders. You’re being leaders. I don’t know how the election is going to come out, but you “student activists” will not be the same. You’ll be taking action whenever someone tries to do the wrong thing and call it the right thing. I’m proud to call you my Bruin Brothers and Sisters.
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