Student government official right to resign

I was surprised to hear of the story last week about William Sedgwick, a UF Student Government official who was arrested on a DUI charge and resigned.

Eight years ago, UF had a Student Body president who was arrested on a DUI charge, which was an embarrassment to the student body. But he remained in office.

It is a sign of sensible character that Sedgwick resigned his public office and that the SG president accepted it, accepting responsibility for his lapse in judgment.

Of course, this does not excuse SG and its long-running majority party for its ongoing lack of transparency or fairness to UF's "independent" parties - but it does show that there has been a modest ethical improvement since my time at UF as a student senator.