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READER COMMENTARY: Hogan missed opportunity for input
Reader Commentary | 11/3/09
Posted online at 1:15 AM EST on 11/3/09
In response to "Student advisers to presidential committee selected"?(News, Oct. 27): While I believe, in strong opposition to last week's op-ed, that student input on the presidential search is critical and necessary, forming a separate student committee to "advise" the Trustees' committee will accomplish doodly-squat.
Without the power of a vote in the final decision, student opinion on the next president will essentially count for nothing-even if the student committee "take[s] it up a few notches" to make the campus aware of the process and gather opinions. I have heard that Student Union President Andy Hogan '11 spoke to the Board of Trustees about including students on the real search committee but was rebuffed. I appreciate his efforts, but it's sad and telling that he's not willing to play hardball on an issue that's critical to our school's future. This would have been a perfect opportunity to raise a fuss and mobilize the student body around an issue; the totally symbolic half-measure of a student search committee saps that potential energy and squanders it.
-Jon Sussman '11
Without the power of a vote in the final decision, student opinion on the next president will essentially count for nothing-even if the student committee "take[s] it up a few notches" to make the campus aware of the process and gather opinions. I have heard that Student Union President Andy Hogan '11 spoke to the Board of Trustees about including students on the real search committee but was rebuffed. I appreciate his efforts, but it's sad and telling that he's not willing to play hardball on an issue that's critical to our school's future. This would have been a perfect opportunity to raise a fuss and mobilize the student body around an issue; the totally symbolic half-measure of a student search committee saps that potential energy and squanders it.
-Jon Sussman '11
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