TO THE EDITOR:
Criticizing first-year focus council for its inability to work with every first-year involved on campus makes it reasonable to suggest that you think all 600 on-campus organizations fail in their efforts.
The purpose of any committee is to select a few agents that can represent the target population. The Daily Tar Heel itself only works with a few select individuals to represent UNC as a whole. How are we any different?
And it matters not that executive branch officers were never on the council. We aren’t trying to build another executive officer.
Every member from last year’s council is somehow impacting campus: leading Dance Marathon, the Residence Hall Association, cultural protests, Eve Carson Scholarship committees, law journal graphics, proving that the council builds, as any organization does, members ready to reach out to UNC.
We are currently the only student government organization with a platform directed only to first-years. Our events are open to every first-year, a fact not recognized by the editorial.
If the way to succeed is to invite every first-year into the committee, I fully expect the DTH to give reporting jobs to any person on campus with a thought to share; have fun finding pens for 25,000.
Emma Zarriello ’15
Global studies
Political science
