Dear The Xavierite Staff,
My letter today, is regarding the Xavierite Volume 82, Number 20 that was released Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013. Specifically, the article titled, “SGA and SAB Combine to Form New Council.”
While reading this article I noticed that I was not in fact interviewed, questioned or contacted prior to the release. Being the President of the Student Activities Board, I would like to suggest for your future references to include not one, but both of the presidents of the two organizations that are “combining,” as stated in the title of your article.
Quoted and cited in your article you notably interviewed the President of the Student Government Association. However, according to your article, the combination of what is now SGA and SAB will be happening during the 2013-2014 school year. My question to you now is why you would interview members of this organization that will not be involved in the new Council.
Regardless of not speaking with me directly, why wouldn’t you reach out to the future council members?
I would like to take a moment to also point out that you quoted four members from the Student Government Association and not one of the Student Activity Board members was quoted or mentioned.
I was informed that you, nor anyone from The Xavierite for that matter, reached out to Shonice James and Rachel Fenton who are currently on the Student Activities Board and will be holding two of the four future Executive Vice Presidents.
Shonice will be the EVP of Communication and Rachel will be the EVP of Campus Connect. That being said, not interviewing two members currently on the current Student Activities Board insinuates that The Xavierite is in fact not “the eyes and ears of the students,” seeing as you left out the entire programming board currently and for the future.
This is now showing me as well as the entire programming board that you are incapable of accurately stating the facts of our organization now and for the future Council, which is completely and utterly disheartening.
I feel it is completely inappropriate to write an article titled “SGA and SAB Combine to Form New Council,” and fail to interview the president of this organization, my advisor, let alone any of my members on the Student Activities Board.
The “combining” of both SAB and SGA was a joint effort in which both organizations were active in regards to the restructuring.
I ask that for all future articles that all parties involved are contacted appropriately with sufficient and adequate facts printed when writing about SXC and any future article.
Christine Bowe
Nursing
Student Activities Board President
Community Liaison
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