Modest proposal or ugly vision?

Please tell me that I have misunderstood Dan Cassino's commentary in the Jan. 28 Wildcat that actually advocates turning over the student leadership to the Greek system. I hope that you will say that his intention was to be satirical or sarcastic, kind of like Swift suggesting that we eat children.

The suggestions that the university community could possibly be better represented by appointed members of frats is ridiculous! While I don't know much about ASUA now, I do know that each of us has the opportunity to research and vote for the right person. If we choose to get involved in an election, we can.

Under the proposed ASUA, only frat members would really have any say. I wonder if Mr. Cassino has noticed that most of us don't belong to frats, either by choice or because we simply can't afford it.

Yup, Mr. Cassino, the people that you would like to see "representing all of us" PAY MONEY each semester to be friends with their "brothers and sisters." While that doesn't make them bad or good, it is different then from the people I know who work hard, study hard and find little time to surrender themselves to a club.

How many of these representatives support themselves completely? Are married? Have kids? Are over 25? Are disabled or poor? Think of the typical college fraternity or sorority member and his or her values...now let's see if you can reconcile that person's values with the values of a 25-year-old father going to college for the first time.

If you can, great, maybe that's the right person for the job. But why not give each different student the choice to elect a person (regardless of Greek affiliation) who will represent him or her? I'm glad to see that you are being creative Mr. Cassino, but this is not a small-town college where more people would be involved in clubs and organizations. The majority of us hold jobs, study hard and are too distracted by the million things going on in our lives to join a club. So, let the rest of us make informed choices instead of being held to the will of the Greek system.

I still hope that you were being sarcastic.

Danielle Cruz
Pre-Physiology Junior