Word: council
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council-basher. The council does many useful things for us, most of which are underappreciated. Shuttle buses, tailgates, Fly-By lunches, lowered phone rates--all recent council accomplishments for which the leadership and members deserve credit...
...these elections--and the House elections in the fall--are an embarrassment to an otherwise capable organization. Whatever the final numbers are tomorrow for voter turnout, this election season has been marked by council-mocking and general student apathy toward our elected government...
...question is why, given the council's reasonably competent performance winning frozen yogurt in Annenberg and Fly-By lunches in Loker, do students still ignore...
Maybe because what the council has proven that what it does best--provide student services--has absolutely no relevance to student opinion. It's completely absurd to think we need a two-week election, complete with campaign finance rules, election commissioners and debates, to choose who will lobby the College administration for the long-anticipated three-ply toilet paper. Students are right to see these elections as a farce--not because the council is incompetent, but because what it does well doesn't require a democratically elected leadership. We're being asked to vote for a bureaucrat...
Representative democracy is the wrong model for the council as it currently works. It probably never occurred to the current council's founders to do it any differently; they must have said the Pledge of Allegiance a few too many times in elementary school. But to paraphrase Kent Brockman, I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy just doesn't work on this campus...