OUR VIEWS Consensus Opinion

Rising status

The recent approval in the Faculty Senate of a new master’s program in Music Technology is a sign that Tech is serious about improving cultural life on campus through the promotion of the arts. In accordance with this approval, SGA should seriously consider accepting Musician’s Network’s recent bid to become a Tier II organization. Looking over the organization’s activities, from renting out free sound equipment to renting out free practice space and providing free concerts at Under the Couch, it’s clear the organization certainly does its share towards improving campus life.

The current Tier II organizations: DramaTech, Graduate Student Government, Intramurals, the MOVE Office, the Music Department, ORGT, President’s Council, the Student Center Program Board, Student Publications, Undergraduate Student Government and the Women’s Resource Center—all have a primary purpose of serving the community on a large scale. As the Musician’s Network seeks to expand and diversify its services and offerings, it will be expanding to a scope through which a larger portion of campus will be positively affected by its programming. Denying the Musician’s Network Tier II status will limit the extent to which the student body can benefit from the organization’s efforts.

This doesn’t mean that all organizations that benefit a large number of people should scramble for Tier II status and the priority funding that comes with it—overcrowding of the Tier II level will be detrimental to all Tier III organizations already scrambling for funding. Thus SGA should work to ensure that organizations that are promoted to Tier II status are truly deserving of that priority.

Costly ordeal

Despite the sad fate of the CRC sprinkler system, still recovering from its fateful encounter with a basketball, there are a few positives that have come from the event: the uproar caused by the closing of the CRC shows just how widely used the facility is and has made us realize that we are lucky to have such a nice facility, the presence of which is generally taken for granted. Also, the expedient response of the CRC and facilities staff should be applauded as well, as they’ve worked hard to minimize the inconvenience to students.

Hopefully students will be patient and contractors efficient as this ordeal is sorted out. It is sad that such a seemingly small, if compulsive action by one person can have such a widespread effect on campus and lead to such costly consequences.

Consensus editorials reflect the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of the Technique, but not necessarily the opinions of individual editors.