2008 Woodie Awards
Should the SGA be abolished?
Jason Shepard
Editor-in-Chief
Issue date: 4/7/08 Section: Opinion
Oh, the tyranny! This university, like most universities across the nation, actually allows students to have some voice in how their student fees are spent. Why won't this university, along with the rest of the universities across the nation, find its moral conscious and take this power away from the students?
Down with the SGA and their ability to allocate funds to student organizations! Only departments and administrators should have this power -- or better yet, this tyrannical power should belong to no one.
OK. Let's get serious. Why should any student care?
I think that most of us will agree that the primary reason why students seek out a university education is for the advancement of academic and professional opportunities. Of course, there is also the social component, which some students value highly, while others not at all. And there are other various reasons why some students seek out a college education. Most students are here for some unique combination of reasons.
What is important to one student's growth may not be important at all to another student's growth. Even if we only focused on the academic and professional side of the university experience, what would be important to each individual student would vary tremendously.
Now, it would be ineffective for any university to cater to each and every individual student's specific needs, but what it can do is offer a diverse array of opportunities for its students. These opportunities are found in the various major choices, course offerings, computer facilities, libraries, recreational centers and so on.
These opportunities may also include events such as career service's career expo, the department of physics colloquium series, the department of foreign language's annual picnic, SeCAPS meteorology conference, JP's continual offerings of on-campus entertainment, along with hundreds of other events offered by this university and its various departments.
These opportunities can also be found in the University's various student-led campus organizations. Many of these organizations are professional or academic in nature. Others are more social or cultural in their orientation.
Down with the SGA and their ability to allocate funds to student organizations! Only departments and administrators should have this power -- or better yet, this tyrannical power should belong to no one.
OK. Let's get serious. Why should any student care?
I think that most of us will agree that the primary reason why students seek out a university education is for the advancement of academic and professional opportunities. Of course, there is also the social component, which some students value highly, while others not at all. And there are other various reasons why some students seek out a college education. Most students are here for some unique combination of reasons.
What is important to one student's growth may not be important at all to another student's growth. Even if we only focused on the academic and professional side of the university experience, what would be important to each individual student would vary tremendously.
Now, it would be ineffective for any university to cater to each and every individual student's specific needs, but what it can do is offer a diverse array of opportunities for its students. These opportunities are found in the various major choices, course offerings, computer facilities, libraries, recreational centers and so on.
These opportunities may also include events such as career service's career expo, the department of physics colloquium series, the department of foreign language's annual picnic, SeCAPS meteorology conference, JP's continual offerings of on-campus entertainment, along with hundreds of other events offered by this university and its various departments.
These opportunities can also be found in the University's various student-led campus organizations. Many of these organizations are professional or academic in nature. Others are more social or cultural in their orientation.
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