An Open Letter from the SSFC Chair

This is the email I recently sent out:

I come to you as the semester comes to a close, with exams looming on the horizon. Before I embark on long library binges, I would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for the pleasure of getting to know you these past few months. My hope is that, despite any decisions that you may not have agreed with, my committee and I have made strides in crafting positive relations within the process and ensuring vital services to the students of this great campus.

My time as SSFC Chair has given me exceptional clarity into the process of the GSSF and the services that we provide, but my view is also unsurprisingly one-sided. I am not an council member who is not on SSFC. Nor am I a leader of a GSSF group. I am not even an apathetic seg-fee-paying student anymore (such is the nature of my position.) As such, I am henceforth inviting you to join me in a discussion of the system and its many flaws and benefits.

I have taken great pride in my work up to this point, and my hope is that you can all see that. But my work on this committee is not complete until I know that I have at least improved the system, that I leave with SSFC in a better position than when I came in. With that, I would like to introduce a few questions to everyone, with the hope that you will take the time to answer them:

1) What is the role of the GSSF?
2) What benefit does the collection and distribution of seg fees give to the campus?
3) What services are essential for this campus?
4) How can we make it better?
5) What would make it worse?

Keep in mind that this is not my own personal evaluation. This is positive and critical feedback of what the GSSF is and how it operates. I hope that you will join me in this discussion.