2008 Woodie Awards
Letter to the Editor: Shuffle's end will take time, work
Issue date: 3/17/08 Section: Editorial
To say that the NU Shuffle will be eradicated by July is a ridiculous statement. Don't worry, I know that.
I'd like to clarify a few points that were discussed in the Feb. 28 article in The News, "Fiore: Shuffle to end by June." I perhaps was not clear enough when discussing our plans and what is going on with them. Yes, the Student Government Association (SGA) is working hard on conquering the NU Shuffle right now, absolutely.
Do I anticipate that the Shuffle will be gone by July, though? No, that's pushing it. Your student government's effort to end the issue, however, will definitely be completed by then. When it will be completed is up to how long it takes the administration to act on the report and recommendations we submit to them.
As former SGA Vice President Christopher Kelley said correctly, some of the issues we are dealing with are culturally rooted and will inevitably take some time to change.
What I can say is the predominant change that has taken place between when I took office eight months ago is the very foundation that will allow the problem to be fixed. The administration is actively collaborating with the SGA to bring an end to this issue, as opposed to denying its existence, as was the previous situation.
For those of you who don't know, the NU Shuffle is a term coined to describe the incredible difficulty people sometimes find when trying to get something done on campus. The bureaucracy can be almost suffocating as students are sent from office to office to office looking for information or to get something done.
The upperclassmen on campus can probably see that things have visibly improved since they first came here. Progress in fixing the issue has come a long way, and numerous situations have been righted during the years, but it was mostly band-aids applied to bigger problems that weren't being addressed.
In a nutshell, the SGA is running a consulting project on the university. This entails gathering input on definite instances of the Shuffle, which is still underway and should be a continuous process. Once a source is identified, it is researched: what is happening and why is it happening? This entails looking at organizational charts and processing flow charts, visiting and investigating situations, etc. Once the causes of the problems have been determined, we can come up with solutions as to how to address them.
I'd like to clarify a few points that were discussed in the Feb. 28 article in The News, "Fiore: Shuffle to end by June." I perhaps was not clear enough when discussing our plans and what is going on with them. Yes, the Student Government Association (SGA) is working hard on conquering the NU Shuffle right now, absolutely.
Do I anticipate that the Shuffle will be gone by July, though? No, that's pushing it. Your student government's effort to end the issue, however, will definitely be completed by then. When it will be completed is up to how long it takes the administration to act on the report and recommendations we submit to them.
As former SGA Vice President Christopher Kelley said correctly, some of the issues we are dealing with are culturally rooted and will inevitably take some time to change.
What I can say is the predominant change that has taken place between when I took office eight months ago is the very foundation that will allow the problem to be fixed. The administration is actively collaborating with the SGA to bring an end to this issue, as opposed to denying its existence, as was the previous situation.
For those of you who don't know, the NU Shuffle is a term coined to describe the incredible difficulty people sometimes find when trying to get something done on campus. The bureaucracy can be almost suffocating as students are sent from office to office to office looking for information or to get something done.
The upperclassmen on campus can probably see that things have visibly improved since they first came here. Progress in fixing the issue has come a long way, and numerous situations have been righted during the years, but it was mostly band-aids applied to bigger problems that weren't being addressed.
In a nutshell, the SGA is running a consulting project on the university. This entails gathering input on definite instances of the Shuffle, which is still underway and should be a continuous process. Once a source is identified, it is researched: what is happening and why is it happening? This entails looking at organizational charts and processing flow charts, visiting and investigating situations, etc. Once the causes of the problems have been determined, we can come up with solutions as to how to address them.
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Dustin
posted 3/17/08 @ 8:48 AM EST
That's only the abbreviated title...
"Shuffle's end will take time, work, seven subcommitees, nine open forums, forms AN, BF, 137, and an informal Facebook petition filled out in triplicate each to the SGA, BRC, President Aoun, the faculty senate and the Intercollegiate Council on Crimson Adhesive Films all hand delivered during business hours in the Summer II semester shortly after running wind sprints between Richards Hall, the CSC, and each college's main office while organizing a protest and pickett line on mission hill on your cell phone. (Continued…)
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