This week’s Student Association meeting introduced a resolution entitled “To Disapprove of the Secretive Process Employed During the sale of KTRU-FM; To call for a Collaborative Dialogue between Student Stakeholders and the Rice Administration” (see story, page 11). … [T]he SA’s support of student organizations is commendable. Though they are understandably powerless to take any action stronger than passing a non-binding resolution, their demand that “the Rice administration provide a concrete assurance … that the decision to confidentially appraise and sell KTRU-FM was indeed not a precedent” properly engages decision-makers to come to the table and share future plans with the student body. In a place where institutional memories rarely reach back further than four years, it is important that the administration carve in stone their commitment to students.

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