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Last week, General Student Senate passed a resolution to create an ad hoc committee to review current Fair Elections and Practices Commission guidelines and make recommendations to senate for ways to streamline the fair elections process.
As can be expected when any body comes under review, some discussion has been had — discussion that will continue — regarding the leadership of the body. In this case, FEPC Chairwoman Skye Landry is that leadership.
Concerns have been raised in the senate about the FEPC’s performance in overseeing last semester’s Student Government and Interfraternity council elections. At least one senator has called for Landry to be fired.
We think it is important that the ad hoc committee remember the purpose with which it was charged: to “recommend changes to the FEPC Guidelines through it’s [sic] report(s) or through sponsored resolutions in such ways as it sees fit,” as is written in the resolution.
The spirit in which the resolution was crafted is also important for committee members to bear in mind. Landry herself was a driving force behind the resolution, citing the need for overhaul for the FEPC to be the best it can be.
Restructuring should occur where it is warranted, but the committee should not attempt to purge the problems in the FEPC by cutting off its head — a purely symbolic action that wouldn’t solve any of the FEPC’s inherent problems.
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