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 Editorial Board

Adam Sichlto, Editor in chief

Tim Wiseman, Managing editor
Andrew Martin. Asst. managing editor
Brenton Kenltel. Opinions editor

Wes Blevins. Asst Opinions editor
Chris Johnson, Sports editor
Crystal Little. Projects editor
Doug Scott, Features editor
Josh Sullivan, Staff columnist

Wednesday
Jan. 18. 2006
PAGE 4

 

 

|______N OUR OPINION

Oversight of SG
will benefit students

 

School year after school year
after school year. this editorial
board has repeatedly pined for var-
ious sorts of direly needed reform
of Student Government. The need
for reform couldn‘t possibly be any
more obvious in light of this farci-
cal institution’s most recent deba-
cle —— a March election that passed
first through a corrupt and faulty
SG Supreme Court and then the
University Appeals Board. before
having to be decided over several
lawsuits in Lexington's real-world
court system.

The most critical penalty stu-
dents faced from April 2005
through September 2005 — aside
from being forced to give student
fees to this organization — was a
lack of student representation on
the Board of Trustees, the govern-
ing body of the institution. No oth-
er hat that the president of SG
wears has as much impact and im-
portance as serving as the voice of
the students to the board.

Finally thanks to the work of a
Board of Trustees subcommittee.
that much-needed SG reform is. to
our delight. on the trustees‘ agen-
da.

Last week. the student affairs
committee voted 31 to approve two
clarifying revisions to UK’s gov-
erning relations that lay out the
relationship between UK and SC
in lucid language. Under the revi-
sions. which have their first of two
required readings before the board
next week:

I Pat Terrell. UK‘s vice pres-
ident of student affairs. has au-
thority to ensure that SG complies
with UK policies.

I The University Appeals
Board can affirm an SG election or
void it and send it back to SG to
correct errors. The board cannot.
however. name a winner.

The first idea recognizes a pow-
er that someone needs to have. and
Terrell is the best option for that
authority. As the head of student
affairs. she‘s already very much in
tune with campus and with SG:
she knows their by-laws. knows
when egregious errors have oc—
curred and knows the best ways to

go about fixing those mistakes. We
have little doubt she‘d do a fine job
and have the common sense not to
abuse her powers, if the Board of
Trustees approves that step.

The ability of the appeals
board to affirm or void an election
is good — but the idea of remand-
ing the election back to the source
of the problem isn‘t such a great
idea. There's no clear reason why
the election should still be deter-
mined by the same institution that
messed it up the first time. Sadly,
the Board of Trustees may even
have to step in and determine a
winner.

But we'll certainly take these
reforms over no reforms at all;
these options are far better than
the current set-up. The claims of
SC President Becky Ellingsworth
that SG is independent of the uni-
versity are false on several levels.
most notably the fact that UK has
the power and ability to compel
students to pay fees that support
this organization.

Someone has to be the highest
authority to determine the win-
ners of SG elections when SG it-
self can‘t get it straight. Until 80
has proven itself worthy of such
ability. UK must step in and take
some sort of regulatory position.
or clarify its existing powers. And
as faculty trustee Jeff Dembo cor-
rectly pointed out to The Kernel.
the board. just like the student
body. has a clear “vested interest"
in getting a student trustee in
place in a timely. efficient manner.

Ellingsworth is convinced that
all this regulation business is a
“power play“ by UK. We don‘t see
it that way. but she's got a little
less than two months to prove her
point to us. to the student body and
to the Board of Trustees. She must
identify the key points of her posi—
tion and present a cogent, tenable
argument that convincingly rebuts
UK‘s side in the issue.

Otherwise. there‘s no reason
not to applaud the actions of the
Board of Trustees subcommittee
and hope that the full board ulti-
mately approves these clarifica-
tions.

 

Continued tsunami aid
well worth the funding

All too often. relief efforts on
both a national and global scale
are relegated to the Red Cross or
the United Nations. After a disas-
ter. spot-crisis media coverage
becomes just that: intensely
highlighted. then rarely followed
up to remind viewers or readers
that they can aid in such efforts.

But the UK community hasn‘t
forgotten 2004's tsunami disaster
in Indonesia.

A little more than a year after
that tsunami killed more than
200.000 people. UK‘s College of
Agriculture has put together a
two‘year. $1 million proposal to
the federal government to assist
three universities in Indonesia to
reorganize in the wake of the
tsunami devastation. The Gatton
College of Business and Econom-
ics. the College of Engineering
and the Martin School of Diplo-
macy are working on the plan.

The proposal. which will be
approved or turned down within
the next two weeks. would aid
the University of Lampung.
Brawijaya University and the
University of Syiah Kuala. In Oc-

tober. the University of Syiah
Kuala received a $32000 dona-
tion. raised by the students. fac-
ulty and staff of the College of
Agriculture.

This proposal should be ap«
proved. and we cannot commend
the College of Agriculture
enough for their efforts. This
should serve as a reminder that
the world‘s problems affect us
all. Our help. no matter how in-
significant it may seem in the
shadow of such utter destruc~
tion. matters. It matters to the
students. faculty and staff at
these three Indonesian universi-
ties. It matters to the UK stu-
dents who have donated their
time. money and effort to this
project. and to the faculty and
staff who‘ve traveled to the re
gion to help the schools reorga-
nize their curriculum.

It matters. and we can all ap-
ply the College of Agriculture‘s
initiative to disaster efforts. No
matter the type ~ fire. earth-
quake. tsunami. flood. hurricane.
AIDS pandemic these issues
hit close to home.

 

 

 

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