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It would be hard to argue that the UC having better information about its constituent’s desires would be a bad thing. Without such information the UC flails in the dark. To wit, the most frustrating part of last semester’s UC resolution to support the...
Institutionalizing UC polling could turn out to be a tremendous legacy that the current UC could leave to its successors, and we wish the UC success in this process.
Second, and more importantly, polling should not be used to excuse UC members from acting as leaders. That means that individual UC members should stand at the forefront of debates leading up to polls, articulating their views and informing students. Otherwise, polls risk simply aggregating the ignorance of students on...
Specifically, we hope, except in rare circumstances, that the UC avoids polling directly on legislative items. Doing so would allow the UC to use referenda as a crutch when it feels like avoiding particularly divisive or hairy issues. Moreover, such polling might endow a false sense of legitimacy for the...
We hope, instead, that when possible, the UC limits its polling to data collection for policy analysis rather than direct decision-making. The UC’s greatest recent successes—for instance the creation 24-hour library—have been backed by data mined from student polls...