Representative government is a tricky business. The question of how any government represents its constituents across the board has been debated in many forums for years. No one can doubt that minorities and special interest groups can have a hard time gaining access to the political process, but when it comes to our own Government of the Student Body, the time for special interests to have special seats should end for their own good. We have a minority senator, a senator for students with disabilities and one for nontraditional students. Now if Greg Tew, vice speaker of the senate, has his way, we will have a Nontraditional Student Union to represent students 25 and older who may or may not have children.Everyone on campus is currently represented by their college and where they live and while one might well argue that minority students and disabled students have needed special representation in the past, but as we enter a new millennium, perhaps we should rethink what our original goals were.In order to get anything done in GSB you need to lobby a variety of senators anyway, it is just like the real world. One senator isn’t going to get anything done.Special senators just make it easier for other senators to send you packing with your concerns to that one senator whose job it is to deal with minority, nontraditional or disabled student issues.If these groups need representation, there are always seats opening up in LAS and engineering. Now is the time to stop marginalizing everyone into special interest groups. There is no reason for special seats when the regular ones will do.editorialboard: Carrie Tett, Greg Jerrett, Katie Goldsmith, Andrea Hauser and Jocelyn Marcus