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By appointing a member of Student Empowerment! to the
Appointment Review Committee, Undergraduate Student Association
Council President and SURE slate member David Dahle showed an
applaudable bipartisan mentality. Student Empowerment! returned the
favor Tuesday by adhering to their immature history of petty block
voting.
Student Empowerment! members in the general council, as well as
those on the ARC, unfailingly block voted for members of their
slate and against anyone not on it. Student Empowerment! members
T.J. Cordero and Chris Neal made up two-thirds of the ARC, and
refused to give their approval to any SURE or independent nominee.
The SURE members and independents on council rightfully approved
the nominees regardless, and showed a tremendous amount of maturity
in approving the Student Empowerment! appointments as well.
The sooner Student Empowerment! accepts the fact power will have
to be shared on USAC next year the better the student body will be
served. SURE took care of business by approving Dahle’s
nominations regardless of their political slate. Neal, Cordero, and
the rest of Student Empowerment!, on the other hand, made it
transparently clear they are not interested attending to business
but in playing political games at the expense of strong student
representation that this campus sorely needs.