ou all should run for VP one day. I’m serious $mdash; even if you couldn’t give a damn about the assembly, or institutional voice, or the administration, or even change for that matter. You should run just because of all of the interesting people you’ll get to meet and all of the viewpoints that you’ll hear.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve talked to people about everything from gender relations on campus to the over-generalization of the Greek system to the concrete ways in which I will improve the SA, with everything in between (including what I plan to do about 2-ply toilet paper in dorms).

Some of these conversations have resulted in disagreement and debate, and quite a few have helped me refine my own perspective on life at Dartmouth. But there’s one thing that pretty much everyone that I’ve talked to has agreed upon: no more useless committees. We’re all tired of committee after committee being formed and seeing nothing out of it. You would think that people would have learned their lesson by now, but of course I wouldn’t be writing this if they had.

One of my competitors wants to set up a “steering committee” that would (in theory, at least) bring together campus leaders. So, what exactly, if I may humbly ask, is the point of having a general assembly meeting if campus leaders won’t attend it? And if they won’t come to a SA meeting, why in the world would they go sit through these “steering committee” meetings?

I can just see the ads now: “time spent at your regular committee meeting: one hour, the general SA meeting: two hours, the SA executives meeting: one hour, steering committee meetings: two hours; that surprised look on your face when people wonder why SA doesn’t get anything done: priceless.”

My other competitor wants to see “the end of the Student Assembly” $mdash; get this $mdash; by creating yet another committee. That’s right folks, it’ll be called the “Reform Action Committee” and it’ll be appearing at a school near you.

My promise to you is this: no new committees. Of course, if the College wants input on the future of student life or an administrator search, I’ll make sure that student voice is heard. But who are we kidding if we think we can make Dartmouth a better place by just creating more committees?

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