Someone Just Doesn't Get It

SAC Commissioner Rich Sweeney writes in a Hoya Viewpoint that the changes made to the SAC Constitution "won't change anything." Yet the new Constitution is drastically different than the old one: it makes Commissioners less accountable and the process less transparent. 

Not so, he writes. "The 'changes' ... are changes in the text — not in SAC’s current operation." 

Oh, wait, I get it - that's how it's always been, except now its codified in a written document that you don't have to blatantly violate anymore. 

I agree with the writer that Constitutions, for these purposes, are "living documents." But they are also documents that boards like SAC must abide by if it is to retain any integrity or respect whatsoever. Clearly, SAC lacks both among the student body, and by amending its Constitution and not its behavior, it is not helping itself.