Hatin’ SGA

The Red and Black finally caught on to the story that SGA failed the students yet again. A committee of the University Council (the group that always wants to take away Fall Break) decided drop/add should stay at four days, well, a week ago.

The University Council first voted to shrink drop/add over a year ago. At that time, SGA was unable to convince the faculty that drop/add is actually good for students. Imagine that.
After seeing how students were negatively affected, SGA began another effort to show the University Council the error in its ways.

SGA Senator and Academic Affairs Chair Katy Bowers led the effort (seen here hard at work with SGA President Peppered and Executive Director Andrew Dill). As printed in the beginning of the Red and Black article, Bowers’ argument for going back to the longer drop/add is that a fix for drop/add is overdue, “its not right”, and “they need a permanent solution.” Why oh why won’t faculty do what students want? Maybe its because SGA representatives cannot make a decent arguments.

Later the argument is explained further, but most of this is explained on the Ruddle Report. Ruddle, a senator from the Red and Black’s point of view (Ruddle is not an SGA senator), can make a much better case for extending drop/add. Maybe Bowers should have let Ruddle do all the talking, and then maybe drop/add would be back the way it was.

Thanks again, SGA!