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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...
...meeting was fabulous, and what made it so good, was the students," Pryor says. "It was a thrill to see these students so articulate and so passionate about their mission...