In 1998-99 I helped individual students, RSOs, and Student Government articulate concerns in ways that administrators would find most useful. I met with dozens of faculty and administrators to promote the inclusion of students in free and open rational debate about the most complex issues facing our University. I am helping to create institutional structures that keep communication between students and administrators working. I have helped faculty in the College produce a newsletter devoted to deepening serious discussion of the College curriculum. When a critical mass of students said we were ready for a protest, I became a main organizer of the Fun-In .
Students are in a better position than any time in the past thirty years.
Concrete changes have already been made, and more changes are underway. Being an adequate representative of undergraduates, graduate students, and professional school students is a monumental task. It takes months of hard work to become conversant with the large number of very complex issues we face, and several months or more to develop positive working relationships with administrators and Trustees. This year has been a great success. I have been elected to a second term so that we can build on this success.