Associated Students, Inc. remains an obscure organization to many students at Sacramento State, even as they hope that someone will address pressing issues that affect their quality of campus life and education.

Freshman Rashaud Martin remembered something that he heard about ASI during his orientation, but he said he wasn?t sure what the organization does.

“I think they mentioned something about it over the summer,” he said, “but I don?t know much about it.”

When told that ASI is the student government at Sac State, Martin immediately knew what he wanted them to improve: “Parking,” he said.

Roy Taylor, a junior double major in English and music, lives in the dorms, so parking isn?t his biggest concern.

“I?d like to see ASI take a proactive stand against people going through dumpsters and throwing trash around,” Taylor said. His room overlooks a dumpster, and he says that dumpster divers rummage around in the garbage “all the time” looking for recyclables. Taylor also commended ASI for negotiating the free ride agreement with Regional Transit.

“I use it all the time,” he said.

Aside from more parking, students surveyed by The State Hornet hoped for less expensive food and coffee prices on campus, shorter lines at the bookstore during peak periods and more services for older returning students.

Of the 10 students surveyed, none knew the name of the ASI president, where to find ASI?s offices or how much money they paid to ASI as part of their tuition.