It is time to move on.
No more drama. No more struggles. No more bids for power, each as egotistical and ultimately useless as the next.
The Student Union turmoil train has finally come screeching to a halt, and now there is an opportunity for closure. Like it or not, Carl Woog will remain Student Union president after efforts to impeach him failed by a vote of 13 to 25, and the Executive Board may finally be able to move past its despicably narcissistic behavior, and maybe just maybe show some signs of being productive with the fall semester’s final six weeks.
Ex-Senate Vice Chair Rowan Armor resigned minutes after it was determined Woog would not be tossed, and he claims now to be spearheading another effort to remove Woog. Armor has said he will circulate a petition that, if he can manage to gather 1,000 student signatures, will turn the possibility of revising the Union constitution over to the college governments. Armor will push for a constitutional amendment specifically tailored to oust Woog, which is about as useful and rational a maneuver as Woog saying he will start the ‘healing process.’
Armor’s intentions are not bad, but his actions, unfortunately, are woefully misguided. What he is effectively asking is not for impeachment or investigation, but for alterations the Union constitution itself in order to remove a Union president. While doing so may seem like the next best way to topple Woog from power, Armor must step back and realize the absurdity of what he is about to attempt. Successfully doing so will be the last straw in making the Union a laughingstock and completely vaporizing any shred of integrity it has left.
That said, Armor was right to resign and would be even better to completely wash his hands of the Union in its current state. For more than two months, BU students have watched as members of a well-funded organization supposedly acting in students’ best interests do nothing but fight with each other. Policy-wise, the Union has advanced no further than where it arrived at the end of spring semester. Its members have squandered nine weeks with their personal problems. Only the Programming Council, which continues to organize quality student events that attract large turnouts, has stepped up and made its mark. Unfortunately, all of its achievements have been overshadowed by the egotistical nonsense in the Union’s upper ranks.
Carl Woog should have been tossed and the Union should have been given a real opportunity to begin again, but Armor is not helping matters by continuing this conflict any further. It is time for everyone to move on, and see if the Union is not really as painfully useless as it has been this year.