Ignorance over arrogance, Cuny lesser of evils

Ignorance over arrogance, Cuny lesser of evils

Casey Cuny

There is something wrong with the candidates for executive vice president when the decision about who should fill the position must be made on which will do the least amount of damage and on who would be easier to work for. The one redeeming quality of bo th Casey Cuny and J. J. Rico is that if their accomplishments as senators are any indication, they will not do much harm because they will not do much work. Small comfort.

The Wildcat, however, feels that the better executive vice president will be Cuny. Not because he is more qualified, but because he will be easier to work for and will do less damage.

Cuny, a current ASUA senator, is a very able and persuasive speaker, when he occasionally says something relevant. Cuny says that as a senator, he accomplished his goal early in the school year of registering more students to vote.

The push to register students, however, cannot be traced directly to Cuny's work. And Cuny, who says as executive vice president he would enforce strict attendance guidelines for senators, could not be counted on to keep his office

hours or attend all Senate meetings this year.

His idea, however, of taking away stipends for senators who miss a certain number of meeting is a good one, even if it would be next to impossible to implement. Like the rest of his ideas, unfortunately, it is poorly researched and thought out.

Rico, also a current ASUA senator, would be extremely difficult to work for and with. As a senator, he was supposed to work on six issues. Did he really work on them? The answer would have to be 'no,' at least not since the Senate began. One of the issues he ran on last year, which relates to the office of the executive vice president, is club funding. Besides explaining the club funding process to two friends and sitting in on the interviews for the past year's Appropriation Board and club advocates, Ric o has done nothing else. If Rico is so interested in the office, why did he never go to an Appropriations Board meeting, or for that matter, why did he not sit inon the initial club funding hearings?

Rico also shows a lack of understanding and research needed for the office, and when confronted with this fact becomes belligerent. If a senator had a problem, is this the type of person that he or she could come to? Definitely not.

Both candidates are very similar. Both are self-interested and probably would not work as hard as executive vice president as he should.

If it is a choice between the belligerent Rico and the mostly clueless Cuny, the choice must be Cuny. It is hard to imagine next year's group of young senators being able to work with Rico. With Cuny as executive vice president, strong senators such as De rick Kurdy, Morgan Long and Rosanna Savone would at least be able to take charge in the Senate if necessary and make sure that it is correctly and efficiently run.

By Editorial Staff (Vice-President Excevutive Endorsement)
Arizona Daily Wildcat
March 3, 1997