Once the Free Press started covering Marshalee Ducille’s impeachment, I was surprised not to see any letters of support on the Op-ed page. The last person I expected to see facing removal from office was Marsha. I do not know Marsha well, but I do know she cares — a lot. I do not know if letters of support like this one will affect the Tribunal’s decision whether or not to keep her from her executive vice president post next year, but I think they should. The student government should represent students’ concerns; if students feel Marsha should serve in light of the allegations against her (it’s interesting that the Student Union doesn’t have records of her attendance and isn’t interested in what she was doing with her time away from meetings), and if students supported her enough to elect her slate for next year, then the Tribunal should listen.
I met Marsha in a journalism class. She isn’t even a journalism major, but her passion for people showed through in every class discussion and in everything she wrote. After meeting her in class, my contact with her had to do with my being a student organization leader. She showed she cares a lot about my organization and her slate devised ways to help organizations like mine. After being elected, she told me that she was passionate about helping our organization. This wasn’t a campaign ploy. She was already elected — she just cares.
If you know what Marsha looks like, I’m sure you’ll recognize her around campus. She’s the person you see stuffing envelopes at the GSU, inviting student leaders to get involved and talk about their concerns, participating in NAACP meetings and putting a smile on people’s faces.
If anyone should be in office, it should be someone who cares as much as Marsha does. There are plenty of technical reasons why Marsha should not be removed from her future post, but they are second to the fact that Marsha represents the type of person we want leading our student body.
I urge student leaders or others who know Marsha’s passion for and commitment to Boston University’s student body to write to The Daily Free Press and the Student Union Executive Board. If Student Union truly represents students’ concerns, it should listen to us. Removing Ducille from office would only perpetuate the opinion that the Student Union doesn’t truly act in the interest of student concerns.
Brooke Feinberg COM ‘02
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