From: ding@iastate.edu (Yungui Ding)
Subject: Re: Comment: [ answer ] How is IFCSS's president elected?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:12:00 GMT

In <BxHLrA.n0v@news.iastate.edu> zzuo@iastate.edu (Zhiqi Zuo) writes:

>I don't know about a few other universities that had students attend
>the meeting. But the "delegation" from ISU was NOT picked up by election.

I guess you are questoning the legitimacy of the ISU Delegation to 
the IFCSS Congress.  Although this is only an internal issue of ISU,
I am still more than happy to answer/comment on your question raised here.
First of all, read your own sentence below:

>the elected president is supposed to be the represent of his people, 
                                                     ^ive

If you have to agree with what you have said yourself, you also have
to agree that the elected president of ISU CSS organization is supposed
to be the representative of his members.

Secondly, you are not--you have never been--a member of the local
CSS organization, therefore you are not in a good position to complain
about such organization and its operation.  However, I still would like
to give you an education about the local CSS organization, so as to let 
you realize that there are more homework for you to do next time before
you take local issues to the national level.

The ISU CSS Friendship Association may be the few local organizations
that not only realizes the importance of democractic principles but also
wants to practice on the grassroot level sincerely.  We currently have
our Board of Representatives (originally named Senate) which serves, 
as one of its duties, as a power-balancer (if we have any power :-).
The executive committee of the Association takes the daily operational
duty, and it has to consult to the Board for important matters.
A general vote is the last resort reserved for most significant matters.

As for this year's Congress of IFCSS, we formed our delegation after
we discussed the matter in our working meeting (held in Big Creek lake,
for your reference) attended by all executive committee members and
all the representatives.  In fact, both the President of the Associaton
and one of the two chairs of the Board were in the delegation.
We think it is completely legetimate that we have sent our delegation
to the meeting.  I don't know about other school and their delegations.
We were quite serious in our own business.

Coming back from the Congress, we reported our voting record to the
members of the Association in our Newletter, as we usually do for all
other activities.  It is always our policy that the Association is 
open to its members for various matters.  And we have been.
As for this issue, during all the process, we have not received
any opposition from our members.  Although we heard opposition once
from some governmental officials, we regarded it as irrelevant to the
operation of this independent organization.

I forgive Zhiqi's ignorance of the local Association's affairs, because
I understand that he is too busy in his own business such as serving as
a spokesman in SCC as well as studying hard in his class (he is an
excellent student).  I also would like to recommend to him:
don't tend to behave like a suprior.  I believe you and I and many others
are all so willing to learn something in this country such as the stuff
called democracy.  Although there are imperfections in this process of
learning and practice, it is always better to do than to sit there and 
point fingers at others.  We Chinese so-called intellectuals talk, hence 
attack each other's theory, too much.  I don't want to say that you are 
always negative, but do something to let me think otherwise.  


Yungui Ding
@Iowa

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