Discuss “Veto disrespects representatives”

Help us, Mr. President... pretty please? We are too scared to have an authoritative opinion on an issue as important as academic freedom, so please remove the burden of representation from us. And in perfect unity with this request, the Undergraduate Student Senate failed to accept responsibility for its actions by lacking the political and philosophical insight to overturn the executive veto.

It is an issue of representation and dereliction of duty. When a representative body puts its stamp, however weakly, on a non-binding resolution of purpose, there is no room for an executive usurpation of that body’s opinion. The reasoning behind the veto, or at least the stated justification, concerned a failure of representation by the Undergraduate...