ASUSU — Reading Days
I would like to congratulate ASUSU for their decision to poll the students concerning reading days before finals. We saw in a recent Statesman poll that a majority of students, for various reasons, don’t even plan on voting in the student government elections. There are a number of students who don’t feel well represented by ASUSU. I am definitely one of them. As a student who works to pay for living expenses and tuition, I don’t think ASUSU considers the working student enough. If they are supposed to represent the student body, shouldn’t the students have been polled before they passed a piece of legislature that would ultimately lengthen the school year! Hopefully the method of polling students will be broad enough to include all of us who don’t hang our social life in the TSC. How many students would actually study on the two extra days? I don’t know, but I do know a number of students who use those two days in the summer to earn money for college. During endless tuition and fee hikes, lengthening the school year – cutting down on summer – just feels like another blow to the working student. I wish I had daddy’s credit card and plenty of time to sit around and make up nifty ideas to pass onto the student body without asking them first how they felt. ASUSU should have polled the students before they even passed the legislation. Clint Collins