The ‘Day of Action’ is fast approaching

ASUWT will be putting on a Week of Action from January 23 to January 26. They're hoping to get students to attend these events to learn about how to go to Olympia and get their voices heard by legislators. This Week of Action will coincide with the Washington Student Association's Statewide Day of Action.

 Currently there are plans in the works for the Day of Action (January 26) to have a speaker come out and talk about the health of the university and to have student speakers share their personal stories about how funding has directly affected them or will affect them in the future. ASUWT will then be informing students of the different ways they can get involved.

The plan is to hold the event in Commerce Plaza, but if the weather isn't favorable there are plans to move the event indoors to the Key Building in front of Carwein Auditorium.

 ASUWT is planning to have specific days throughout the week to meet with students. There will be a day focusing on veterans to talk about their needs and legislative bills that affect veteran students. That day is tentatively set for Jan. 23. Financial aid is set for Jan. 24, Jan. 25 is going to focus on first generation students, and Jan. 26 is "D-day."

On the different days ASUWT representatives will be standing at a table in Commerce Plaza.

"My hope is that we can get fifty people who are not involved with student involvement in any sense to come out and support the Day of Action," said Senator Akua Asare-Konadu.

"We're going to be going down to Olympia on February 3, which is a Friday, for Huskies on the Hill," and so the idea would be to get people to sign up at the Day of Action to get ready for Huskies on the Hill.

 For the students who attend Huskies on the Hill there will be free transportation provided to get to Olympia as well as food.

Asare-Konadu said, "We're really just trying to get them to go and talk because the legislators have emphasized the fact that they want to see student faces and they want to hear student stories, so if they keep seeing the same people over and over it's not necessarily a bad thing, but the more people you can get in support of something the more likely they are to listen to you."