Building Legitimacy
"We tend to beg, and the begging is getting pathetic," she says.
Redmond's single biggest issue, she says, is that of the student voice--according to her, students are rarely included in decision-making on campus, even when it directly affects them.
"Students go here!" Redmond exclaimed, pounding the table with her fist. "The University would be nothing without its students."
Redmond, in her opening remarks to the Nov. 14 council meeting, urged colleagues to take on the administration and be more confrontational.
"Don't believe that because they're Dean Blah Blah Blah that they're the be-all and end-all [of decision-making on campus]," she told The Crimson.
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