Abolish the SA
For a better student representation, for a better GW.
Constitutional Redundancy Act of 2009
04/20/09 10:34 PM
After reviewing the so-called ‘Constitutional Referendum Act of 2009,’ it is apparent that many individual SA senators found it necessary to pander to their own egos. The amendments proposed, specifically changing the role of the Executive Vice President, are laughable at best. The trivial "changes" simply expand on the previous language of the SA Constitution, adding 10 pages to the already 23 page Constitution and also to the 74 page Bylaws to the SA Constitution. Do the students of GW really need a constitution that’s 107 pages long? Are these trivial procedural changes really adequate enough to satisfy the drastic reforms students want to see? In fact, SA President Vishal Aswani, an ardent supporter of the new constitution even remarked that it consists of only "small" and "subtle" changes on WRGW’s News In Depth this past Sunday.
A document that is now being supported by an SA Senate that accomplished absolutely nothing in the past year is now proposing an entire set of constitutional amendments two weeks before the end of classes. This comically epitomizes the incompetence of the SA. These changes could have been proposed weeks, or even months before. Instead, several senators are attempting to ram this bill through the SA senate and will try to convince students that it will bring "broad and sweeping" change. Don't buy it.
It's preposterous to think the SA tools are going to be "reforming" themselves. Students need to be the source of change. Unless we completely and radically overhaul the entire structure of the SA, true advocacy and efficiency will never be realized. Many different SA constitutions have been ratified by the student body before - all of them proposed within the SA. They have all been based on the premise of fixing all the problems of the SA. And of course, we go back to square one only a few years later. We continually have the same amount of corruption, incompetence and lack of action year after year despite the new SA constitutions. Let's hope Senator Dobson and others can stop this ridiculous proposition.
A document that is now being supported by an SA Senate that accomplished absolutely nothing in the past year is now proposing an entire set of constitutional amendments two weeks before the end of classes. This comically epitomizes the incompetence of the SA. These changes could have been proposed weeks, or even months before. Instead, several senators are attempting to ram this bill through the SA senate and will try to convince students that it will bring "broad and sweeping" change. Don't buy it.
It's preposterous to think the SA tools are going to be "reforming" themselves. Students need to be the source of change. Unless we completely and radically overhaul the entire structure of the SA, true advocacy and efficiency will never be realized. Many different SA constitutions have been ratified by the student body before - all of them proposed within the SA. They have all been based on the premise of fixing all the problems of the SA. And of course, we go back to square one only a few years later. We continually have the same amount of corruption, incompetence and lack of action year after year despite the new SA constitutions. Let's hope Senator Dobson and others can stop this ridiculous proposition.
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