On Thursday, the Arizona state Senate threw us a bone.

It approved the appointment of two students who will sit on the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR), the all-powerful board that controls higher education in the state of Arizona.

But in this case, two is not really better than one.

Only one of these student regents has the power to vote. The other merely serves as an "apprentice" for the first year of his term before moving into the second-year voting position.

This new "apprenticeship" policy, approved by the state legislature last year, pretends to give students more representation without really doing so.