Opinion
It is time to ask, in all seriousness, why Dartmouth's Student Assembly needs to exist at all.
Nationally, there is a growing sentiment among Americans that technological forces of the modern age shall leave legislative and representative bodies in a state of decay, and that immediate electronic access to the United States Congress shall deliver a great blow to deliberative processes.
If that is the case nationally, then at Dartmouth the Student Assembly has long been dead.
A representative body in student government exists primarily as a place of discourse and deliberation and as a liaison between students and the college administration.