Oh, by the way
Traveler Editorial Board
Issue date: 4/19/07 Section: Opinion
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With all the hubbub about the student government candidates, their platforms, and what we as the editorial board look forward to during the Looney/Bradley reign, we completely forgot about the other important issues on the ballot.
We're human. Don't sue us, and please be forgiving.
Like any other editorial board, however, we did want to throw in our two cents about Resolutions 15 and 9.
We have conflicting feelings about both resolutions, of course, but there are some decidedly wonderful and worrisome things about the respective resolutions, on which almost 4,000 students voted.
In regard to Resolution 15, authored by Associated Student Government Sen. Robbie Jones, we're happy to see it pass.
The new rule, which requires the number of signatures to get an initiated referendum to a campus-wide vote to be 35 percent of the number of people who voted in the last executive election, is a better representation of participating students than any base number.
Speaking from personal experience, the editorial board has to write these horrid opinions, edit Traveler content and search for writers, not to mention spend who-knows-many hours of nervous sweating to make sure the newspaper will actually be ready for publication and printed. Add to that an average of 15-plus hours of school, homework and other jobs, and we're left with little time to worry about getting such a high number of the student population to support any kind of cause. Sure, our example is pretty specific; but we think most students probably have the same time-management problems we have.
Students who already put in the extra effort to make a difference on campus shouldn't have to get gray hairs worrying whether they meet criteria that are unrepresentative of those who actually participate in our mockracy, especially if that means negatively affecting academic performance.
We have enough faith in the common decency of students that if a group were to get a referendum, "A Comprehensive Plan to give Don Imus Reparations," the student body would vote a decisive "NO."
We're human. Don't sue us, and please be forgiving.
Like any other editorial board, however, we did want to throw in our two cents about Resolutions 15 and 9.
We have conflicting feelings about both resolutions, of course, but there are some decidedly wonderful and worrisome things about the respective resolutions, on which almost 4,000 students voted.
In regard to Resolution 15, authored by Associated Student Government Sen. Robbie Jones, we're happy to see it pass.
The new rule, which requires the number of signatures to get an initiated referendum to a campus-wide vote to be 35 percent of the number of people who voted in the last executive election, is a better representation of participating students than any base number.
Speaking from personal experience, the editorial board has to write these horrid opinions, edit Traveler content and search for writers, not to mention spend who-knows-many hours of nervous sweating to make sure the newspaper will actually be ready for publication and printed. Add to that an average of 15-plus hours of school, homework and other jobs, and we're left with little time to worry about getting such a high number of the student population to support any kind of cause. Sure, our example is pretty specific; but we think most students probably have the same time-management problems we have.
Students who already put in the extra effort to make a difference on campus shouldn't have to get gray hairs worrying whether they meet criteria that are unrepresentative of those who actually participate in our mockracy, especially if that means negatively affecting academic performance.
We have enough faith in the common decency of students that if a group were to get a referendum, "A Comprehensive Plan to give Don Imus Reparations," the student body would vote a decisive "NO."
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