Sack SAC!

There are several fine organizations that make Connecticut College the place that it is. Select students volunteer many hours of their precious time to get a taste of sweet, sweet bureaucracy and the opportunity influence and control aspects of the campus culture. Whether these motivated individuals join Student Government Association  (SGA) or Student Activity Committee (SAC) for resume boosters or for the sheer love of paperwork I do not know.

But I do know that many students are compelled to formally and informally criticize nearly everything these organizations do without attending a single meeting or knowing exactly what they do.

While some students do make relevant criticisms through educating themselves by attending SGA meetings and taking part of the process, the former is the much more American approach. Ever since our country’s birth, the everyman has been ranting and raing about injustices that he/she did not fully understand, and you know what happened? We invented freedom and became America.

So in the spirit of the founding fathers, I’d like to make some misinformed and baseless attacks of my own.

What has SAC done for the student body this year? What exactly was Conn’s “Block Party”? Are the members of SAC planning to cancel Floralia and have lobster dinners every night? I don’t know the answers to any of these questions, which means SAC isn’t doing much of anything. Instead of making their intentions and actions clear, SAC committee members hide in the shadows, squandering our funds on so called “Tent Dances” that don’t happen in tents. False advertising is just one of the diabolical tactics this group of Washington Fat Cats dupe the student body with while they pocket the extra funds they did not spend on events. I attended the so called “Block Party” this year, only to find that Cro is not a block, and there was no party.

Worse yet is the lack of imagination and effort of SAC. Instead of creating fresh and fun events like a campus wide pillow fight on Harkness, er, Tempel Green or a massive treasure hunt, they have Cro Dances.

While the first four hundred weren’t too bad, as a senior they seem a bit stale. Sure I love seeing fellow students awkwardly grinding in a room that’s over one hundred degrees and then overpaying for something at Oasis snack shop (who doesn’t?) but there is something to be said for variety.

I can’t understand why SAC is having trouble pleasing an immensely diverse student body with incredibly varied interests. How is it taking them so long to create events that appeal to Lax Bros, Hipsters, Stereotype #3’s, and the rest of the school?

While I may not have the answer to this question as I’m busy writing articles for the universally acclaimed College Voice, I’m pretty sure it involves ice cream, Crossfire and James Brown. See that didn’t take too long. I’ve already come up with three events which SAC can steal (hint) when they want to win the hearts of everyone here.