2008 Woodie Awards
SGA lacks leadership
Issue date: 9/28/07 Section: Rocket Letters
To the editor:
I attended the most recent SGA meeting on Sept. 20 to find that even with the changing of the guard, the spinelessness that has plagued the Senate continues on.
Specifically, when it came time for a vote to confirm or deny Parliamentarian Bill Cooper, Senators Beck and Berger refused to vote rather than stand against him. It seems that with their stretch attempt to block the otherwise well-qualified candidate in ruins, they would rather hide than take a stand against him.
I applaud the current Executive Board's initiative to take and publish all the roll count votes taken in the Senate this year. I believe that it places us in a position as constituents to hold our representatives accountable for their votes.
But I guess even with the roll call vote, it was not enough to prevent the hypocrisy of many in another key vote also taken last week.
When it came time to vote on the creation of two voting Freshmen Senators, it seemed there was almost unanimous agreement in the Senate to create the positions.
This is in stark contrast to last year when this exact same vote came up and I was among a very small minority that wanted to grant elected freshmen the right to vote. Just about every member of the SGA last year, except Bill Cooper, Alex McNeill and myself, thought that freshmen would be "overwhelmed" by voting and instead created two delegate positions that we have now.
So with this recent development, it seems that cowards in the Senate could not hide and instead sided with what was popular over what they actually believed in.
This is the true mark of poor leadership.
Ryan D. McGregor
Junior
Political science
I attended the most recent SGA meeting on Sept. 20 to find that even with the changing of the guard, the spinelessness that has plagued the Senate continues on.
Specifically, when it came time for a vote to confirm or deny Parliamentarian Bill Cooper, Senators Beck and Berger refused to vote rather than stand against him. It seems that with their stretch attempt to block the otherwise well-qualified candidate in ruins, they would rather hide than take a stand against him.
I applaud the current Executive Board's initiative to take and publish all the roll count votes taken in the Senate this year. I believe that it places us in a position as constituents to hold our representatives accountable for their votes.
But I guess even with the roll call vote, it was not enough to prevent the hypocrisy of many in another key vote also taken last week.
When it came time to vote on the creation of two voting Freshmen Senators, it seemed there was almost unanimous agreement in the Senate to create the positions.
This is in stark contrast to last year when this exact same vote came up and I was among a very small minority that wanted to grant elected freshmen the right to vote. Just about every member of the SGA last year, except Bill Cooper, Alex McNeill and myself, thought that freshmen would be "overwhelmed" by voting and instead created two delegate positions that we have now.
So with this recent development, it seems that cowards in the Senate could not hide and instead sided with what was popular over what they actually believed in.
This is the true mark of poor leadership.
Ryan D. McGregor
Junior
Political science
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