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The student SMDs are more than 55% bigger than the smallest other SMD! If you made 3 SMDs of equal size from the two proposed for the campus, they's each have 1720 members - still more than three of the proposed SMDs (2E02, 2E03, and 2E05). I know that's neither the test nor one of the proposals, but I think that's pretty compelling evidence that this proposal effectively disenfranchizes students, whether intentionally or not. (But is there really any doubt it's intentional?)

"Sorry, Jake - this argument hold no water. You guys are lucky to get 1 seat."

I too would like to see the reasons behind this statement. If you're relying on the "You guys are lucky to get 1 seat" comment, though, that's not how it works. The threshold question is whether students get votes. That's apparently already been decided, and is no longer at issue (although some of greent's points makse sense, at least to me). However, if they get to vote, they have the same rights as all other residents. The notion that, "well, they get a vote, but it should count less, so it's OK to dilute their vote, or try to disenfranchise them" is nonsense. It's akin to the 3/5 compromise for determining population in the original Constitution, or the notion that DC residents should get to vote, but only one in the House - no Senators for them. (And what do you want to be that some of the same Georgetown folks who came up with and support this plan are apoplectic about their lack of voting representation at the national level?)

by dcd on Aug 18, 2011 2:09 pm • link • report