From Deseret News archives:
Lawmakers should stay out of Moore uproar
As much as I'd like to say I stayed above the fray, I can't. In the tradition of Woodward and Bernstein, I felt it my duty to expose those who abused their power and their positions. In retrospect, the "scandals" rarely warranted the column inches and the play the stories received. It served a purpose in that members of student government understood that they needed to be accountable for their actions if only because some cub reporter was only too eager to tell the whole campus when they were not.
The college newspaper and the student government are learning laboratories. They're safe places for budding journalists and politicians to make mistakes and hopefully learn from them. While neither group can claim they're the ideal in their respective idioms, credit the adult advisers who offer their best advice and step aside to permit student senators and scribes to work things out (or not) on their own. It's how people learn to operate in the real world. That is, if they're permitted to do so.
No question, UVSC students should have some say-so about how their student fees should be spent. Students who live on campus probably get the greatest benefit from student fees. Commuter students, many of whom are balancing their studies with jobs and families, don't have the luxury of time to attend speeches or other events funded by student fees. There should be some mechanism to address that inequity and how student fees are spent. But these debates need to take place on college campuses, not in the statehouse.
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