We hope that you all had an enjoyable break from frantic, late-night paper-writing and exam-cramming: We certainly did.
What we did not take a break from, however, is our pursuit to enhance the students' voice here at Kean—and we are proud to unveil the next bend in the path that TBK has been cutting through the bureaucratic brush that has overgrown our campus. That's right: now that we've gotten your attention (Over 1700 page views in the last two months of the fall semester, and plenty of emails, comments and questions), we aim to put it to good use.
Being college students in New Jersey, I know you are all familiar with Rutgers University in New Brunswick. What you may not know is that over the last couple years, Rutgers students have gone viral in an attempt to influence administrative decisions. They founded a group called the Rutgers Student Union to both unify their massive student body and project a solid, unwavering, message of their dissatisfaction with the way their school functioned.
Once the Student Union was well-grounded, it became a breeding ground for Student Government candidates. After the most-recent elections, Student Union members control the entire Student Government at Rutgers, and the Union has become an honest-to-god forum for the student body to interact with that government. It is a step in the direction of the very first democracies, much like the Athenian City-State in Ancient Greece, where everyone has a voice and everyone is heard (or, at least, read on the internet).
Check out their Facebook Page: (Rutgers Student Union | Facebook)
If something like this could work at the largest state-school in NJ, why not here at Kean?
Therefore, we would like to introduce you to the Kean University Student Union:
Remember, everybody, we're not crazy or maniacal, or even vengeful. We're students, just like you, who are shoveling our way through the snow towards graduation one class at a time. All we want is a chance to speak up and, just maybe, make a difference.
