Word: pryor
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...Pryor dissolved the SAC last November because of its insularity and its failure to draw students to IOP events and activities. SAC had become an organization devoted to political infighting, not exciting students about politics. It is hard to see how the recent proposal will change that. The contentious elections for president and vice president of SAC will continue, the SAC committees which were hotbeds of student-staff conflict remain prominent. The only concession, it seems, is the end of SAC self-selection process. Instead, all students who have attended enough committee meetings can run and vote for leadership positions...
...This is not to say there is no role for student input at the IOP. Pryor should accept a proposal that gives students a strictly advisory, not programming, role. Staff should consult students at least once a semester about the programming provided and about their ideas. Students should brainstorm with staff a wish list of events. Student political and activist organizations should collaborate with the IOP to organize activities. But these organizations should remain administratively separate from...
...Pryor was courageous to reconstitute SAC. His actions gave many hope that the IOP would become a place of political mentorship and debate, not bitter infighting and ruthless politicking. Pryor should not back away from the challenge he posed in November by accepting this retrograde proposal. There is no courage in repeating the past...
...Senator David Pryor (D-Ark.), Director of the Institute of Politics (IOP), unilaterally dissolved the Student Advisory Committee (SAC). Members were shocked and taken aback by a decision made without prior consultation of the group being evicted. Now, five months later, on the recommendation of the Institute Task Force, there will be a new structure for student involvement...
Towards that end, the Task Force has maintained some self-selection, to include students who do not wish to seek elective office but are interested in politics. Coupled with the decision to preserve the name "Student Advisory Committee," we are left wondering why Pryor employed such an abrupt and dramatic act in November of last year. An attempt should have been made to bring about change through the old framework with mutual discussion. Instead, Pryor has erased a hefty tradition at the Institute and a decades-old legacy, replacing it with a system not drastically different from what was there...