Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Civics!
Jeff Vieregg needs a basic civics lesson. I mean, very basic.
While the editorial made some excellent points—seriously, a meeting starting at 11 p.m.?—the argument that the referendum should have been removed due to an apparent typo is simply too difficult to accept. While the Judicial Council does have a duty to protect the ASUC bylaws, its primary duty, like that of all of ASUC, is to make sure students' interests are served.
No, the primary duty of the ASUC is to make sure students' interests are served. The manner in which this is done is by delegation of specific authority and instructions to specific bodies, which independently do not have that primary duty. Their primary duty is to follow the instructions of the ASUC, which as a whole has the duty of providing instructions to these bodies such that, when these instructions are followed, students' interests are served. This is how we avoid having dozens of competing dictators, all trying to "serve students' interests."
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