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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...
...decision to disband SAC, announced in a Nov. 9 breakfast meeting, was not preceeded by any meaningful process of discussion with those students who 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...
...members emphasized the need to maintain a central student organization within IOP even after the dissolution of SAC...
...Before, [the selection of SAC members] was not a very fair process," Flores said. "There were many people very involved in IOP who weren't on SAC, and conversely there were many people who were on SAC who weren't very involved...
...SAC leaders are currently chosen by the out-going SAC leaders from the preceding year...