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Leading the blind

Abstract:
In the opening statement of the SGA Appropriations Budget Restructuralization Project, we are faced with a paradox:

"It is our belief as Student Government Association, being the sole, legitimate, organized representation of the student body at Youngstown State University that our appropriations budget is insufficiently funded, and therefore, results in the failure of Student Government Association to fully tend to the needs of its constituents."...

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David Spatholt

posted 11/17/09 @ 1:33 PM EST

A referendum is a guise by which you describe the idea of representing the students' wishes. However, given that each representative, and the executive members of student government, are elected or appointed by elected officials suggest that there is a legitimacy to passing a proposal for such a fee.

Putting the issue to referendum wastes time and more than likely will be less than representative of even a good sample of the student population.

Therefore, if SGA truly is the sole representative body of the students it is well within their purview to take their proposal to the Board of Trustees. Regardless of their status as bureaucrats or (more likely) an entity for policy making within the Univeristy, SGA brings their proposal to them with the full faith and credit of a body of elected representatives.
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