Reading Student Body President Anthony Reynold's most recent explanation for why the student representative to the Board of Governors should be appointed by the governor and not elected by students was confusing at best and enraging at worst.
Reynolds cited his motivation as concern for spending student money on a lavish, exclusive club for Student Body presidents, but clearly that wasting-student-money thing was changeable as the fee situation changed last week. Why, then, did he not fight to remove the wasteful spending and reduce the fees from the Florida Student Association in the first place if that was his concern with the current system?
Removing the vote from the process is undermining democratic principles, plain and simple, and the fact that Reynolds is OK with undermining democratic principles when a simpler solution was present and clearly feasible should make us all very, very worried.
