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| Authored by: old man on Saturday, March 26 2005 @ 11:47 AM CST |
the problem with your logic is that the rights belong to eligible voters, while the responsibilities in question belong to active campaigners.
I'd be more willing to buy into your logic if this was an election, but it's not.
The problem with the decision is common to referenda at UW. If you disqualify a referendum committee, you not only end the "official" debate, you also take away any leverage you had in controlling the excesses of a campaign team.
There is no decision the referendum committee can take from here on in to penalize the "ex-committee" further, except to declare the results null & void. Good luck with that once a decision's been made.
Right now, tactically, the best move for the former campaigners would be to go all out with a blitz, hope for a confused result, and take on the procedural issues over the summer.
Sooner or later, students at waterloo will be able to express a clear view on the funding of WPIRG.
IMODO, WPIRG's looking forward to a huge hassle every year or two until they open up a bit.
They need to stop fighting the occurrence of the referendum. Buy into it immediately, fight it, win it.
I'm not disputing (right now) the validity of their argument, that because the Feds are an external organization, they can't control WPIRG's funding in this manner. Regardless of whether that's correct or not (and the fact the feds' lawyers haven't apparently flagged this as a problem make me doubt its veracity), they've only got each undecided voter's attention for a finite amount of time. Choosing to make the Federation of Students jurisdiction, rather than WPIRG's own inherent value the issue probably plays well to the already converted but loses sceptics. Regardless of its validity, it comes across as selfish and bureaucratic.
If WPIRG was smart, they'd call their own goddamn referendum, do it right, win it, and take away the biggest argument their critics have.
Bias declaration: alumni (so I can't vote). I think this is an issue that should be brought to the students for a decision. While I likely would be voting to keep WPIRG on campus, I also think that organizations that collect fees on a negative option basis from students need to keep themselves much more accountable (CKMS, Imprint, WPIRG) than they do. I'm leaving the Feds off the shit list, simply because it's hard to miss a Feds election, while the other organizations tend to only promote themselves to a "target market.' my $0.02.[ Parent ]
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