So I’m talking to you, you’re talking to me. This is the essence of communication. Just because a conversation exists does not mean any resolution will come about.

Government of the Student Body presidential candidates are promising better communication with the legislature, with students and with the university administration.

Any person is capable of communicating with these people; all anyone has to do is make a phone call and set up a meeting. Action is what the position of GSB president allows for — anyone can talk.

How about you spend a little less of students’ money on hot cocoa and cookies for our legislators and actually do something?

Or maybe money should be spent on cupcakes for legislators?

Is buying cookies for people going to cause any action? I think not. Maybe students should actually vote some of the people who raise our tuition every year out of office.

Think they would listen to that? Communication is not an end, it is a means.

Be wary of any slate that promises communication. Communication is nothing more than a prerequisite to action, and anyone who promises communication likely does so because they are unable to act.

Nick Leitheiser

Senior

Political Science