Discuss “Do we need another committee?”

As you?ve probably already heard, the administration has once again gone committee-happy. By creating the new committee to review the university policy on controversial speakers, sparked by three such speakers last semester, University President Jared Cohon has created little more than a time-sink for the committee members and a diversion that will keep our community focused merely on symptoms of a deeper problem.

While it is disturbing that the administration took more than six months to respond to these events, perhaps even more disturbing is that the only substantial response thus far has been yet another committee. How will the campus community ? and the student body in particular ? be helped by having a dozen ?chosen ones? sit around...