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Responding to IOP Director Sen. David Pryor's criticism that SAC had become too insular, the students crafted their suggestions from two open meetings. Then, at a breakfast attended by more than 40 students, Travis F. Batty '02 and Francisco J. Flores '02, senior IOP associates, presented Pryor with their ideas: hold democratic elections, create meritocratic membership standards and revamp the structure of committees and leadership positions...
Recently many people have criticized Sen. David Pryor's decision to reconstitute the student leadership at the Institute of Politics (IOP). An opinion article in yesterday's edition of The Crimson described the Director of the Institute of Politics' move as "insultingly dismissive of student input." In my mind Pryor has made the right change at the IOP--he has chosen to make the Institute a place where all students can participate in the decision making process. Furthermore, he had little option but to take action without first consulting the students on the Student Advisory Committee...
Three issues in particular are essential to this discussion. First, Sen. Pryor's decision means there will be more, not less, student voice and involvement at the IOP. Democratic elections and the reconstitution of SAC were necessary moves in order to increase student involvement at the Institute. Secondly, the IOP Student Advisory Committee should accept this reconstitution as part of the ongoing movement to improve the Institute. Last year the IOP staff was restructured, and now it is time for the student leadership to go through the same process. Third, although the IOP has been compared to student organizations...
...seems unreasonable for students now to complain that Sen. Pryor should have consulted SAC before making a change that will transform the IOP into an open, democratic institution. SAC would have refused the very change that will help end the favoritism and exclusion inherent in its particularly self-selecting system...
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...