USAC bipartisanship a good and a must

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Christopher Neal, next year’s Undergraduate Student
Association Council external vice president and member of Student
Empowerment!, has been appointed to the Appointments Review
Committee, displaying promise that the SURE and Student
Empowerment! slates can work together to overcome partisan
politics. And with the balance of power split evenly between the
slates, USAC will need bipartisan cooperation to accomplish either
of their objectives next year.

The ARC is responsible for recommendations to the council
regarding whether commissioners’ nominees for appointments to
their departments should be approved. Since both slates will be
represented on the committee, hopefully bipartisan cooperation will
ensure fairness in appointments.

David Dahle’s mission in leading the SURE slate this year
was to achieve a more accurate representation of the student body.
While attempting this, though, he cannot forget that Student
Empowerment! does in fact represent a large portion of the student
body ““ to which the slight margin with which several SURE
candidates won their offices attests. If Student Empowerment!
voices are silenced, the student body as a whole will be no better
represented by SURE than it has been by Student Empowerment!.

With this in mind, Dahle should continue to appoint Student
Empowerment! members to important decision-making committees. SURE
and Student Empowerment! need to realize their agendas are not
mutually exclusive and continue this spirit of bipartisanship to
ensure a fair representation of the student body.