Student Issues, Student Solutions
Let's Fix the SafeRide
The DU Shuttle is broken. When surveyed, 54% of DU students found the shuttle unreliable or very unreliable. As a vital service to students, and as a service that relies on your funds to operate, the DU Shuttle has plenty of room for improvement. Help us make the saferide more accessible by sharing your thoughts. Help us implement a mobile website, service schedule times, GPS tracking, and more options for students
Hockey Tickets
Students are relegated to alleys, expense, and subjugation at the hands of the Ritchie Center. Students should be allowed to purchase $5 hockey tickets, no matter the day of the week. Voice your concerns and make sure the Ritchie Center knows we want change. Let's work together to inject even more spirit into Pioneer athletics. Currently, students must enter games through a dimly lit back entrance. Students need to work together and improve our environment. We need to put the rally in "rally alley". Help paint the Ritchie Center crimson and gold.
Wind Energy
Currently, we spend $90,000 annually to purchase energy credits from a company that builds wind turbines in Florida. Not only is this not the best use of your funds, but it isn't very accessible or tangible. I propose we repurpuse those funds to construct our own alternative energy sources. Our project should be accessible to students, not something unverifiable in Florida. Let's make something students can learn from, students can have pride in. Something students can call their own (with a Pioneer logo!).
Sodexo
The quality of food and service from the Sodexo Corporation on DU's campus is despicable. Workers aren't afforded respect and a living wage, and the safety of students is at risk. Will you stand with a Sodexo worker and fight for respect and a living wage? Make sure workers are afforded the right to take a sick day. Improve the quality of your food, and make it sustainable. Stop wasting our money and let students on the food committee! Sodexo, it's time to change.
Past Issues
Bike Sharing
In partnership with the City of Denver, the University of Denver gladly implemented the first bike sharing kiosks. With 20 bikes, the system is part of the great City of Denver bike sharing program which allows students to rent bikes and eventually return them at kiosks around the city. The bikes help create easy to use sustainable alternatives for DU students. Dillon Doyle was instrumental in making the program a success. The bikes were launched with DU’s first annual Bike Day. Two hundred free shirts were given out in less than 30 minutes! Dillon Doyle oversaw the library system until the kiosks were installed.
Explore Denver
Explore Denver gives students access to cultural events around Denver. By giving free or vastly subsidized tickets, Explore Denver aims to make education outside the classroom more accessible. Tickets are available in the new Driscoll Underground at the Explore Denver desk. Dillon Doyle, in partnership with Jason Lundberg, launched the program in the fall. Explore Denver has given out over 2,000 tickets to date!
Sustainability Accomplishments
Dillon has made it his mission to create easy to use sustainable alternatives at DU. Dillon’s work has helped bring significant change to the dining halls; with more vegetarian options, more local and organic foods to the dining halls, and composting of all food waste, students have options to be healthier and to live a more sustainable life. Much of Dillon’s efforts center around educating students on the detrimental effects of recyclable waste, excessive printing, and disposable plastics. With recycle mania, bikes, earth summit, earth month, and a plethora of other great sustainable events Dillon has helped make sustainability fun, approachable. DU students are pioneering a greener future.
Good Samaritan Policy
In order to keep Pioneers safe, Dillon worked to re-write and re-brand the DU Good Samaritan Policy, which now provides protections to students who call the authorities to save a friends life. These protections now help keep Pioneers safe by taking away fear of punishment in life threatening situations.
Pioneer Spirit, Making An Impact
Dillon Doyle has worked tirelessly to celebrate tradition and instill a sense of pride and spirit in Pioneers. Dillon pays attention to the small things, because they make the biggest difference. Dillon hung up a DU flag in Driscoll, Dillon worked to bring better DU merchandise to the bookstore, and Dillon worked to make DU branding and style available and ubiquitous among students. DU has been painted Crimson and Gold through Dillon’s spirit!
Smoking Ban
When the smoking ban was being debated, Dillon took the lead and make sure the student’s were heard. A record 70 people attended Senate to voice their concerns over the potential ban, and Dillon made sure every single student (pro and con) was heard. Dillon voted against the ban, but believes that now it has been passed it needs to be enforced.
President DUSFBO
As President of DU Students for Barack Obama, Dillon Doyle registered over 1,000 new voters (Republican and Democrat!). In order to engage the students, Dillon planned and successfully executed great events for DU students. This included brining Zach Braff and other celebrities to campus, a concert on the green, a bar party, multiple debate watch parties, and countless supporter events. Dillon design and sold 500 shirts which are to this day a hot commodity. Dillon lead a group of students that tabled every single day for over two months.
Foods Forums
Dillon Doyle worked with students and RHA to make sure the students are involved in the food selection process at DU. Students have historically not been allowed at food committee meetings, however thanks in part to Dillon’s work, students have organized monthly food forums and now have a voice in deciding what food is served on campus.
Annual MLK Day Community Service
2010 marked the second annual Martin Luther King Day community service project. On MLK day students and community members unite to clean up our neighborhood. Two years in a row over 100 students and community members picked up mountains of trash and recyclables.
Free Nalgenes to students, incoming freshman
Every single incoming Freshman at DU has been given a crimson and gold nalgene to reduce bottled water consumption and to increase school spirit and tradition. Freshman will be encouraged to participate in the EcoCup sticker program and will use far fewer disposable plastic water bottles.
EcoCup sticker program
The Pioneering EcoCup program grants free stickers to student organizations, which usually showcase organization logos. Working with Sodexo and the Freshman nalgene program, students will be encouraged to show off their extracurricular involvements by collecting stickers from organizations that they are involved with. This encourages the use of a more sustainable drinking device, and will increase student organization pride and participation!
OrgSync!
Tasked with the implementation of OrgSync, Dillon has worked to provide an easy to use organizational tool to student organizations. By growing the user base OrgSync becomes exponentially more effective. Dillon Doyle is committed to bringing modern, salient, and accessible tools to Pioneers.
Student Data Protection
When students were receiving massive mailings from local companies, Dillon Doyle questioned the security of student data. After a full investigation, Dillon found that it was really easy to get an excel file of all students, their ID’s, their addresses, and more! Dillon then met with the Registrar and worked to tighten student data. Students are now protected under a new bulk data process.
Chairperson SOC
As the chairperson of the Student Organizations Committee, by making it easier to start a student organization, Dillon increased the amount of student orgs available to students. Dillon worked to give power back the students. The first ever student run SLTC was a huge success. With a student organization calendar in the Driscoll Underground and a new handbook 1/12th the size creating and running a student organization has never been so simple. Dillon also worked to increase student engagement by offering community building incentives such as free hockey tickets.
President DU Dems
Dillon Doyle successfully transitioned momentum from the Obama campaign into a functioning and successful DU Democrats. With the goal of increasing student engagement, Dillon has lobbied the US Congress on clean-energy legislation in DC, hosted State Representatives on campus, held rallies with city councilman, hosted watch parties for all major presidential occurrences, and engaged the community through BBQs. Dillon is announce that the Pioneers will be hosting the Denver County Assembly on campus this April 10th. By creating great opportunities for students, DIllon Doyle has added to the culture and opportunity available to DU students.
Special Events to Campus
Dillon Doyle has worked with countless groups to bring great special events to campus. Dillon helped bring the premiere of Courting Condi to DU and the after screening debate was broadcast live on the Amnesty International website. Just some of the special events Dillon has helped bring to campus include the Tapped showing, a free concert on the Driscoll Green, the Beastie Boys, Kevin Costner, a marijuana debate between SAFER Colorado and the Denver Police Department, and President Clinton’s Economic Advisor Dr. Laura Tyson.
Gender Neutral Housing
During this coming academic year Juniors and Seniors will have access to gender neutral housing. That is, there is no same sex requirement for housing, if one chooses. By giving students the option to live with anyone, regardless of their gender, DU is taking another step towards inclusive excellence and simultaneously creating a more attractive on-campus housing option. With the help of a committee he chairs, Dillon Doyle conceived, wrote, and implemented the Gender Neutral Housing policy.
New Constitution
The former AUSA constitution was in shambles when Dillon Doyle was seated as a Senator his Sophomore year. With misspellings, grammatical errors, and contradictory legalese, the founding documents of our governing body were broken. Because Dillon Doyle holds tradition and accountability as key values, he crusaded to completely overhaul and re-vision the AUSA. Over the 2009 summer Dillon Doyle led the drafting process of the new Undergraduate Student Government constitution and bylaws. With the help of a committee, the new USG constitution and bylaws will hopefully stand the test of time. The new constitution includes a judicial branch to better involve students in disciplinary matters, and student voter initiatives to better express the voice of the Pioneers.
Open Records
Dillon Doyle is appalled at the lack of transparency on the student government. Every elected member of the USG campaigned on transparency, and the fact that no records are available through official sources is embarrassing. Dillon has taken it upon himself to update the student body by posting minutes, legislation, and financial reports on his website. Dillon believes that the only way to make change is to take action yourself. Dillon takes action everyday, and has worked to keep the students of DU updated on their government.
RA in Jmac
Spending two years as an RA in Jmac is tough work, and Dillon has show great energy and spirit through his tenure. Dillon is not satisfied with the status quo, and has fought against the subjection of marginalized cultures at DU. Dillon has fought hard for alternative programming and has taken an education approach. Dillon believes that learning in college must come out of mistakes made, and it is through this learning experience that students grow. Dillon has worked to create alternative programming, provide free condoms, and made sure his outreach has been salient to student culture.
Responding to Extreme Bias
Dillon has been involved with shaping Bias Motivated Event response on campus. When a student of color was refused ride on the SafeRide, Dillon helped lead the fight to fire the employee in question. Dillon’s passion for social justice comes to the forefront of daily life, and when necessitated, Dillon takes the lead when dealing with extreme events of prejudice .
Engaging Students To VOTE
During student government elections, Dillon has gone above and beyond promoting himself and his ideas for changing DU. Last year, Dillon created and hung up a series of posters encouraging students to VOTE. While some where perceived as controversial, Dillon stood up for the rights of everyone and made a tangible impact on voter turnout and student engagement.
Project Homeless Connect
Dillon worked to involve more students with Project Homeless Connect. Working hand in hand with Greek LIfe, Dillon help coordinate volunteer efforts. Dillon also raised funds to provide shoes and sanitary products to clients.