Lauren E. Bonner ’04 and Luke R. Long’s ’03 campaign posters have drawn plenty of attention and snickers lately with their “Long Bonner” slogan.

Sexual innuendo aside, this ticket says they have ambitious plans for improving the efficiency and visibility of the Undergraduate Council.

Bonner and Long say they intend to continue to push for lower cellular phone rates for students, a project on which Long has been working for some time. They also have plans to hold a stadium concert next year.

Twenty-four hour key card access to all upper class houses is another goal of the Bonner-Long team; they say they feel that it is important for someone who feels threatened at night to be able to quickly enter any House, even if it is not his or her own.

Bonner and Long say they want to shift the shuttle schedule from the Quad so that busses leave at five minutes to every hour instead of on every hour. The pair also says they would like to create an on campus video store and more safe crosswalks.

To increase the quality of teaching fellows, Bonner says she and Long are planning a student advisory board to make sure students’ concerns about TF’s get to the administration.

“Because we’re an academic institution, we can’t just leave your learning up to chance,” Bonner says emphatically.

The Long Term Vision

Bonner and Long say they would like to immediately restructure the council so that all representatives are actively involved in the group’s ongoing projects.

“You elect people to do things for you, not just go to meetings,” Bonner says.

The two candidates also says they see the council as playing a more significant support role for student groups.

“If [a group has] a problem finding space on campus, I want them to be able to call us and say ‘we just got kicked out of the Lowell JCR and we have a big event in a week and a half, help!’” Bonner says.

Long explains that he and Bonner aren’t “promising to put air on the moon and fly people up there,” though he says he and his running mate are serious about getting the issues in their platform—like improving the quality of teaching fellows and changing the shuttle schedule—done in their term.

A student center is a long-term goal for the pair, though they have an interim plan to manage campus space.

Long proposes creating an electronic database of all the meeting rooms available on campus, their capacities, and what equipment they have. Students would then be able to reserve that space online.