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Yesterday's Crimson editorial argued that former Sen. David Pryor, director of the Institute of Politics (IOP), "could have been more adroit in his intervention" to disband the institute's Student Advisory Committee (SAC). This is a remarkable understatement. Pryor's decision, reached without any consultation of SAC, was insultingly dismissive of student input. As a student newspaper, The Crimson should have taken a stronger stand in favor of student control and against Pryor's unfortunate fait accompli...
...would be most directly affected. It is especially worrisome that Pryor saw fit to discuss the changes with concerned non-SAC students but did not feel that SAC members deserved to be consulted. Although SAC had been making several efforts to increase student access to leadership roles at the IOP--most notably by reducing its own size and by creating the senior associate program to devolve responsibility to students outside SAC--it was never given an opportunity to respond to Pryor's concerns. Had Pryor outlined to SAC his vision of a new structure for student participation...
...IOP members emphasized the need to maintain a central student organization within IOP even after the dissolution...
...hope to make the new IOP student organization democratic from top to bottom," he said. "All members of IOP will be given the decision-making power...
Consciously creating a parallel between the discussion meeting and the Constitutional Convention, Batty criticized Pryor's vision of an IOP comprised of a series of committees but no central executive student body as "something like the Articles of Confederation, a beast without a head...