Perhaps the only possibility of seeing substantial structural reform in the Student Association next year vanished in tonight’s Committee Election meeting. Logan Dobson, the current Vice-Chair of the Rules Committee and candidate for the committee Chairmanship, was defeated by grad student, Jamie Baker. Although Baker emphasized his outsider perspective, Dobson’s loss was clearly a rejection of his personal philosophy.

Dobson served on the Rules Committee this year and knows more about SA rules (as ridiculous as they are) than anyone at GW. Dobson also brings a fresh perspective to the SA and he doesn’t tolerate SA crap, which is clearly the reason the SA tools rejected him tonight.

If the SA is committed to reforming as they claim to be, they should have voted for Logan as a start to cleaning up the unnecessary SA bureaucracy. But of course they didn’t, they’re the SA after all.