"I'm not going to give it to someone who just spent 20 minutes ridiculing me," Rampell says.
Learning From Mistakes
For his part, Seton says students need to get worked up about the issue in order to get the ball rolling again.
"The first thing we need to do is bring [blocking group size] to the forefront again," he says. "We need to re-ignite the students' outrage about it."
Although Seton says he doe snot have a clear plan of action for approaching the issue, he says that as a member of SAC, the committee that most often deals with College administrators, he's well-positioned to start working from within the system.
"Possibly we can work out some sort of compromise," Seton says--arguing that a 12-person blocking group would be better than no increase at all.
Seton will have help from other first-years, including Phyllis G. Maloney '04, who ran unsuccessfully for the council on a platform of increasing the blocking group size.
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