This evening, the Student Government Association executive board slates will have an opportunity to voice their platforms and their goals.
They should not spend it chewing out the other slate.
The Manship and the Loving slates have accused each other of mudslinging. The truth is, both slates are guilty.
It's time to stop. Don't defend yourselves. It's a forgivable offense. It's part of politics.
But please, for one night, stop.
A student government must be made of hardworking and trustworthy people. The student body will never get a real impression of the slates' capabilities if time is wasted on who did what wrong.
No matter which slate has more dirt on the other, information can only get a slate so far. When a slate is elected, the students do not know what they want or what they are capable of, because all they heard during the election were negative comments about the opposing slates.
The slates must set an example for the rest of the students. In order to be a voice to whom faculty and administration will listen, the slates must be willing to perform like adults in an adult situation.
The more students act like children, the more the faculty and administrators will refuse to take their opinions seriously.
This debate is the last chance the slates have to show what they want to do for the students. The Daily News challenges both slates to spend their time completely on the issues, not on each other.
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