Saturday, October 22, 2005

Presidential Material?

President Buenrostro's 3 goals (from the ASUC website)

Three goals for the year:

1. Make the ASUC a vehicle for the education of different political and social issues of importance to the students and the world around us.
2. Encourage students to get involved in this campus and come out of their college experience as strong leaders.
3. Bring students of different ideologies and backgrounds together through fun events and programs so that they may learn from one another.

Issue 1 is very vague... how do you succeed at this? How do you fail at it? So far the multicultural center is still not even underway and near complete. When you preach "education" as a goal when you're holding a school office, it's very hard to prove or disprove your success rate.

Issue 2: how would you achieve this, President Buenrostro? What have you done so far where students are participating and becoming more active in the community? If you want to preserve the ASUC you need tangible goals and examples of success in the past.

Issue 3: Once again, what are the details... debates (like the affirmative action debate where everyone wanted to kill each other), speakers, pie-eating contests? It seems like both sides seem to hate each other more than embrace different views right now.

Reform means tackling specific issues head on. "Helping students" won't prove anything, you have to have concrete goals and show concrete examples of success, not just be the leader who smiles and gives "motivation". Your supporters want to know it all...

2 Comments:

At 11:46 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

President Manny tries hard but he's ultimately anchored down with ineffeciency because of his political party and people that surround him. He can't help but be inefficient but he has a good heart.

 
At 12:01 AM, Anonymous cw said...

Good hearts don't get shit done, good leaders do. Justine has a good heart too. And I'm sure that underneath all of that crazy, Zach Liberman has a good heart.

 

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