Monday, September 25, 2006

DE gets it right in today's editorial - Destroying the USG

I was going to blog about this, but realized that the DE had beat me to it. Like my earlier blog today about Wendler messing with the A/P Staff, this is just silly. The USG is really messed up, of that there is no doubt. But, if you are an educator hopefully you try to help the students fix the problems instead of destroying things.

Why does this administration feel that every problem should be solved by knocking thing to the floor and putting their foot on someone's throat? Do they have the NSA doing illegal wire taps too? Why can't the students make mistakes and then put processes in place to fix them?

Take it from me, the USG is just a learning tool for the students. It makes no difference in the big picture. High handed attempts to take it over and redo it as an arm of the SIUC administration is just silly and poor political policy. So they waste a few thousand dollars and fight in silly ways? Who cares?

Anyone know if other universities are killing off their student governments or if the is another "original" bad idea from Anthony Hall?

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