Regardless of how you feel about UNC’s role in the Association of Student Governments, today’s referendum should not be passed.
If you think UNC should pull out of ASG, the referendum won’t get you any closer to this goal; it would deprive UNC of participation in ASG meetings, but it wouldn’t guarantee that UNC students don’t have to pay the ASG fee.
Instead, UNC’s student government should work within the organization to reform it and improve its effectiveness, rather than abandoning it altogether. As yet, those in favor of the referendum have not proposed a better alternative.
To be sure, there is a discussion to be had about ASG, its role in the tuition talks and how relevant it really is to UNC.
But passing a referendum for UNC to withdraw from the organization right now will be a slap in the face to ASG’s other members and will make it difficult to proceed with current efforts to reform the association from within. Such a vote would be illogical at best.
