MASSPIRG wants your voices to be heard
There is a club that wants to get on campus; it is the Massachusetts Public Interest Group (MASSPIRG).
“Helping people, helping ourselves, helping the community, and helping people,” said Jesse Ackran. That is what he believes MASSPIRG is all about and why he wants the group on campus.
MASSPIRG is a student funded, non-profit organization that is in over a dozen universities throughout Massachusetts. In its history, PIRG had worked to create the Bottle Bill. This bill is the reason why when people bring soda cans and bottles to a redemption center they receive five cents for each.
The club needs to gather 500 student signatures so that a question may be put on the ballot for the Student Government Association elections on April 13 and 14. The question will ask students whether or not they will allow an $11.00 waiveable fee to be placed on their student bills.
The fee would go towards paying for professional staff that could lobby on behalf of students and the causes they want to fight.
“They will be a voice for students in Boston and D.C.,” said Vanessa Wright. Wright continued to explain that it is important to have someone who can focus solely on working for the causes that students want to work for.
“It’s harder to get stuff done if we don’t have anyone down there everyday,” said Wright.
One of the things that a person could work on would be to update the Bottle Bill. It would improve the recycling program in the state.
Some MASSPIRG chapters are currently working on a Global Warming Solutions Act. The goal of the act would be to reduce emissions so that they are 25% below the 1990 levels by the year 2020.
Another campaign that MASSPIRG chapters are currently working on is a higher education campaign. The campaign would give more money to students by taking the banks out as middlemen when it comes to dispersing federal funds to college students. The campaign would also work to reduce textbook prices making them more affordable.
One of the things that MASSPIRG has recently done is provide $6000 for poverty relief in Haiti after the recent earthquake.
Just last week, the president of the chapter of MASSPIRG, which wants to get on campus here at UMass Lowell, was in D.C. and spoke at the Student Aid Press Conference.
“I think with MASSPIRG we can get our voices heard on the state and national levels,” said Samantha O’Leary, the MASSPIRG president.
MASSPIRG wants to help students have their voices heard. They are students working on behalf of the students, for the betterment of the students
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