SA Shouldn't Fund Pet Projects, Regardless of Merit
To the Editor: The Student Assembly's mission reads as follows: "The purpose of the Assembly is to coalesce and strengthen student participation in the College's decision-making process." Student advocacy in administrative issues; this makes perfect sense. But when SA starts expropriating its budget to independent student-run organizations, like the $7,000 unanimously voted to Katrina Relief, it is completely disregarding its intended role and revealing the politics of an organization that allows individuals to unfairly advance their own agendas with the indiscriminate stamp of assembly approval. Dartmouth students are, across the board, very involved in humanitarian efforts: alternative spring break trips to Costa Rica, preservation in Belarus, aid to Tsunami-affected areas, and organizing the building of an orphanage in Bangladesh.