A Bard student hard at work
This will be the very first ‘issue’ post on the website. I hope that over the coming months, me and my colleagues in Student Government will publish many such posts. The goal is to explore and explain the progress (or lack thereof) that has been made on a particular issue. If we can keep up with it, the result will be a rich historical resource, both for all of you and for our successors in the semi-distant future.
One of the greatest problems we face in Student Government is the rapid turnover; for obvious reasons, most of us only spend four years at Bard, and few dedicate all four of those years to the SAG. I only started in my Junior year. In many cases, we don’t get the hang of it until about a week before we graduate. This could be prevented, but too little information is passed from one class to the next. Last Spring, I was tasked with appealing to the Board of Trustees to ask them to increase the Student Activities Fee. The result was almost a word-for-word replay of an identical appeal by a student named Nina DiNatale in 1990. ‘Those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them’ is a cliche, but we have lived it too often to ignore it any longer.
So for this first attempt to change that, I have chosen an issue that I’ve interacted with extensively during my time in Student Government: student employment. The first part is a recap of the events of the last year, so those who were there may prefer to skip down to the section highlighted in bold, where I’ll discuss some developments from this last week.
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