Resolution 19 on college access was unfairly tabled

TO THE EDITOR:

We write with disappointment for the vote taken this past weekend in opposition to universal college access Resolution 19 at the Association of Student Governments.

The Coalition for College Access began at UNC in the spring of 2008 to fight this exact form of dogmatic decision-making that has plagued our legislature for years. Often we find our elected officials in the N.C. General Assembly or in the U.S. Congress out of touch with the concerns of their constituents. We should not then be surprised that one of our own elected student leaders is out of touch with students as well.

With his committee vote to keep the resolution in committee Student Speaker of Congress Tim Nichols has grossly neglected to take into consideration the work that has begun on his very own campus.

Furthermore Speaker Nichols was outspoken on the floor of the entire ASG assembly to block any free and open discussion on Resolution 19. Whether or not you believe in legislation it is up to the results curried through democratic discourse among elected student officials to determine its fate not expertise in the parlor tricks of Parliamentary Procedure.

 We stand in firm opposition to the suppression that occurred this weekend and hope that the reintroduction of this issue in January will be met with free and fair input from all the delegations elected to represent the UNC-system students at large.



Kaitlin Carr

Coalition for College Access



Rachel Craft

Coalition for College Access