Candidate committed to advocacy issues

After reading last weekâs issue of The Metropolitan, my reaction was simple. Presidential candidate Dave Flomberg has little interest in student advocacy or appreciation for campus involvement.

Dave, you set your position on student apathy by stating in your column that ãitâs a chosen path,ä how it ãisnât going to change anytime soonä and that we should just ãforget about it.ä Is that type of resignation and just ãforget about itä attitude what our campus needs?

You say you will ãassure that all SGA meetings and documents are open to the public.ä Well, Dave, the meetings are open to the public, and copies of meetings proceedings are available at any studentâs request, even yours. Personnel issues, like hiring or firing, are always heard privately. Itâs Colorado law.

You think student government is merely ãan extension of high school.ä If you have such a poor regard for the SGA, why are you running?

You make it very clear that you wonât work with anyone, from students to administration. If you think by stating that nobody needs ãan audience to fix a

leaky faucetä justifies never seeking student input, you are grossly mistaken. With the state of Metroâs leaky faucet, combined with your lack of involvement with the SGA and poor student advocacy history, you are nowhere near a qualified plumber.

While rebuffing the students, you propose attacking the administration, exhibiting the SGA as an ãangry waspä with an ãunsheathed stinger.ä Your strong language didnât last long. Only a few lines later you say the administration ãsees the student government as little more than an irritating houseflyä and that ãthat opinion isnât going to change anytime soon.ä Which is it, a force to be reckoned with or an ineffective assembly? Well, I guess you donât care, as long as you get elected through one stance or the other.

As for my ticket, the Student Power Initiative, we are committed to working with the administration and faculty to create a full week Fall break during Thanksgiving as well as defending the current grading system from plus/minus additions.

Your ultimate priorities once in office are, at best, unclear. However, you say that we should ãstop trying to rally a bunch of people who canât be rallied (the students) and try focusing on the issues.ä

OK, letâs talk about the issues. The Student Power Initiative stands for more students of color in campus decision-making, a more effective parking system and better access to student services for evening and weekend students. If elected as a whole, our group is committed to these and many other advocacy issues. Now thatâs a band with a cause, not just a loose cannon without aim.

So what issues are you going to ãtryä focusing on, Dave? Making already open to the public SGA meetings open to the public? Or perhaps valiantly doing nothing about the lack of student involvement and student apathy?

To wrap up your whole campaign you say, ãVote for Dave. Why not?ä

Well, I say, Donât vote for Dave. Why bother?