What have You Done to Make a Better Change?
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Friday, March 26, 2010
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By Kow Kwan Yee
A strong leader or powerful leading organisation being desperately needed within a big community is not something to be taken lightly.
Members of the community would decide a common will that serve their general interest. Thus the leaders chosen by the community are expected to be representatives of all.
This way, it is logical to make a supposition that the Student Representative Committee (SRC) should bring the voices of the students to the university’s management.
This is a common expectation since SRC members were elected through E-voting annually on campus.
Not to forget that SRC candidates will have their own manifesto while campaigning for their elections, which are promises of betterment that they will carry with them in office.
As a student as well as a voter, in what sense did you voted for them? Is it based on the candidates’ manifesto or personal popularity? Or did your vote actually count under the disputable e-voting system?
What can you do when your leaders do not strive based on your interests? Or should the question be, did they did not fight or were they not able to fight?
SRC chairman Edward Chin did point out the limitations of the body in striving for students’ welfare in his recent exclusive interview conducted by J-on.
He said the university’s constitution had limited SRC to question on various issues, especially policies that had been set and planned by the university.
Then can we suppose that the SRC is just a puppet student’s body, what do you think?
Revolution takes place after continuous questioning on current flawed policies. How is the SRC going to lead the community for a better change without the power to question the current policies?
Now the core problem is getting obvious, who is controlling the whole scenario? They are the ones who wrote the constitution, who gave obsolete and centralised power to the management and who prohibited the student representatives to question.
They are “adults” who uphold the needed logical wisdom in the community, or so they claim.
As far as we are concerned, what can you do as a student?
If you are still expecting answers from me here without pondering it out by yourself, then you just have to continue laying your destiny to the strong management.
By this, you would never be free from slavery, in terms of being controlled by someone who is holding overwhelming power forever.
The final question is - what have you done so far to bring a change?
