You are mistaken about the platform.  I cannot recall the platform upon which I was elected.  I think I have the flyer that I used somewhere but can't at this time find it so that I can here state the specifics.

"Get naked with Student Senate" buttons were during the fall, after the election (held the prior spring) in order to rev up excitement about the new student government.  (Prior student govt disbanded itself during my soph year, new constitution written, and my election, in my junior year.)

It ain't..wasn't... genius:  We could provide services and there'd be little opposition.  We could pursue issues but had little sway--no official/legal role (nothing required our approval) and we'd be gone in nine months so could largely be ignored.  My first memory is that we had no budget but I think that it was actually $2800.  No one was paid or got any tuition waiver/assistance or anything.  (Other state schools gave at least the top execs some pay or tuition assistance.)

We had an amazing group.  I'll slight too many by only mentioning a few here (my bad memory) but Virginia Mansfield, Peter Adler, Jeff Mason, John Elliott and Mike DeNoma (the infamous and hilarious 'some other schmuck' speech) deserve mention.

Did the 'naked' campaign work, were we effective?  Do your research and also read the editorial in The Post after Mike pointed out the facts at a party to people who he didn't know were the top execs at The Post.

sbh--you've cracked a number of times about student senate under me.  those are unfounded, inaccurate cheap shots.  and you know that you haven't researched the truth and are just going on what you want to think.













 

The problem is it went from a bunch of rubber stamping administrative kiss-asses straight to all out anarchists, so all that has changed is the reason why nothing of any remote value will be accomplished. Something in between would probably be better, but like real politics, there is no middle anymore.

The year I was asked to be on it was a borderline waste. I hadn't spent the 3 years prior to my election kissing the butt of administrators (outside of the department I worked for, which was Res Life), so I was just kind of along for the rubber stamping ride as an "outsider". Didn't realize it until it was too late.

The Post seemed to cover Senate pretty fairly this year to what I could see. It's leaps and bounds better than when Will Klatt comandeered the newspaper and had the editors operating it as his daily anarchist bulletin back in the late 2000's.

I won't argue this point, but I will just say that if you want to see a real anarchist daily you should go back and read The Post in the late 1960s.  The daily calls to burn down Cutler Hall in the name of flower power and peace were a bit too much . . . and I'm exaggerating only slightly.  Hyperbole in the search of truth is no vice . . . 

 

Some of the administrators do a pretty good job of keeping students at the table, and if they don't care they at least do a good job of pretending that they care, but the Trustees don't even pretend to give a damn. There's not even a kids table there, you just get a plate and fork and go sit in the other room.