Elections resemble democracy at WU

By TJ Staff

We now know the positions of chair and vice chair of CSL will be open to the entire student body.

With this new information on the table this week, we’d like to re-visit the issues brought forth in last week’s editorial.  

We were working off the information provided in the priority student e-mail last Tuesday. We accessed CSL’s website but found no information about elections or a new CSL constitution. 

We also called a representative from the group but had no success.

In last week’s editorial, we critiqued the fact that no mention had been made about opening up the positions to everyone, including those who had never been on CSL.

Our stance was and still is that student government should be “anyone can run, everyone can vote.” 

This week, CSL Chair Sydney Evans tells us that in fact, anyone can run for chair or vice chair of the council.  

We think that’s great!

When it comes time to vote, we hope students will floor all the election naysayers by turning out in high numbers to vote.  

At one point in student government history, some Winthrop administrators used low turnout numbers to bolster removing the elections altogether. 

Because this is the first election in 10 years on campus, the idea of voting may not become a habit easily formed. It might take two or three years to see respectable voter turnout.  

No one at Winthrop should be allowed to take away the elections just because of that, though.

Kudos to you, CSL, and everyone else involved in putting student government on the road to democracy.