Dear Editor,
I feel a major injustice has been done to the students of BallState University. Because of the recent resignation of PresidentBlaine Brownell, a presidential search committee was formed todecide who the next president will be. Unfortunately, the onlystudent representative out of 14 committee members was chosenwithout even consulting any other students. Last time I checked,the purpose of BSU was to educate it students, so students shouldplay an important role in deciding who will lead our school in thefuture.
There are two major things wrong with this picture. First, it isridiculous that there is only one student representative on thiscommittee. Students should at least have equal representation asfaculty and Board of Trustee members, seeing as the primaryfunction of a university revolves around students. Second, studentsshould at least get some choice as to who will represent the entirestudent population on the search committee. Students were not evenoffered a chance to apply to be considered. Many students who arevery involved with the university and their student organizationswere completely overlooked for this opportunity to make a realdifference at Ball State.
All in all, I get a feeling that those who were in charge ofcreating this committee couldn't care less about what qualities thestudents want in the next president. They were only interested inhaving a token student on the committee who will agree withanything they say.
The way this committee was formed is completely unfair tostudents and should be modified before any decisions are made thatwill affect the other 18,499 of us.
Katie Carlson
freshman
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