In a discussion on WPTS-FM’s Media Roundtable last Wednesday, Student Government Board member Phil LaRue voiced his support for allowing individual students to speak for or against specific allocation requests during SGB’s public meetings.

LaRue said that it was something he hoped to see happen in the future and said that he would be discussing it with the rest of SGB in the coming weeks. This is something that I’ve lobbied for over the past few months and a reform that would encourage students who aren’t either members of SGB or leaders of campus organizations to take an active role in deciding where Student Activity Fee money is spent.

I should have followed up on this last week but I’ll be working on a larger post on this issue in the weeks to come and hopefully LaRue will make some progress in this initiative. It has the potential to slow meetings down but, when student money is being spent, we should recognize the right of students to voice their opinion before allocations decisions are made.

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