Continental Congress and Advisory Counsil

>>>Community meeting are our chance to come together and tlak about announcements, problems, and things going on, on the PSEC campus. With the Advisory Council, they help regulate our campus and meetings, making the final decisions that we dicuss in the community meetings. I think that PSEC can be more effective in its governing process by making the process a voters ballot/ voters both type of set up, I also think that as far as the people who are running that we could have an election similar to the presidential elections were the people who are running would set up campaign trails around the school, and make their ideas spread wider before their speeches in the Community Meeting. I think that this also plays into how we could design it differently, this would be my suggestion, to do the, let’s say “miny campaign trails.”


>>>For me, just suggesting this to the current committee, my method, would be more efficient because that way people could get to know the person running and it would portray a clearer perspective. The possible challenge to the PSEC government, in my opinion, is the lack of connection to students about the people running, prior to the election, because the way I understand it (since I’ve never been to one of our elections before) is that we will be listening to the speeches then immediately voting afterwards, this might not be the case but it is how I’m understanding the process. If this is what is happening, I think that there should be a connection between the voters and the people who are running, maybe a week before we actually do the elections because there could be a lot of people running, which would mean that if it stuck to the way it is now, we all would have to make our decisions right then and there. This would be hard in my perspective because I like to have some time to think about who is running and what there about, before I decide on the people who will be advising the school at which I attend. If this challenge is ignored or engaged it would mean that the advisory elections would continue on the way they have been set up so far, which means there would be no new changes made to improve the Advisory Council elections.

>>>Gerda Lerners view and interpretation of history, in my opinion, doesn’t complicate the process. Lerner states that “ [they] foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.” To me this quote is realizing that depending on what changes you make, if you make any, will determine how your decisions turn out. I think that the suggestions made about the Advisory Council would be the change/ decision of how those suggestions would turn out.