As a student senator, I feel an obligation to set the record straight.
Debate was cut off on two bills by the Unite Party last week not because it had become “demeaning,” as was claimed, but rather because some Unite Party senators didn’t want to hear about the corruption in their own party. They didn’t want to discuss why eight different members of the executive branch receive decals paid for by the students that allows them to park wherever they want on campus.
They didn’t want to acknowledge the fact that “I Voted” stickers are only a means of voter coercion that costs students thousands of dollars a year.
What Unite senators wanted to do was circumvent conversation about why a member of the Hispanic Student Association blogged his organization’s funding was directly tied to his ability to collect these stickers from its members.
They wanted to gloss over the fact that last semester an audio recording of a Unite Party meeting confirmed what everyone has known for years — the only purpose of these stickers is to track who has voted in each of the organizations that support the Unite Party.
Tuesday night, Unite senators used the immense weight of its supermajority to suffocate the voices speaking out against a broken system full of corruption and nepotism.
It’s up to every single student of the university to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
This week, when you vote in Student Government elections, vote to end corruption.
Editor's Note: This letter refers to this article.
