Monday’s edition of The Daily Reveille contained an opinion column expressing the views of columnist Chris Grillot, a former community college student.
  In his experience, community colleges offer easier study loads and, above all else, opportunities to cheat. The column was founded in the frustration felt by many University students whose peers have taken numerous courses at lower-level institutions and transferred, but will still graduate with the same degree as those who have taken the harder courses at LSU.
  As the opinion editor, I was quite proud to feature the column. It was engaging and  successfully exposed an injustice in the University’s credit transfer policies.
  However, as a student at LSU, I was quite disappointed in Student Government’s actions Wednesday night regarding local outrage caused by the column. 
  At their first fall meeting, SG senators converged with BRCC’s student government president to express its disassociation with The Daily Reveille, and more specifically Chris Grillot’s column. They wanted to distance themselves so strongly that they passed a resolution.
  The resolution took up substantial time and was the only measure voted on Wednesday night.
  The problem with this — if it’s not obvious enough already — is that our representatives felt it more important to pass an official resolution to clear their names — which wasn’t even in jeopardy — rather than preside over other campus matters. Solving the housing needs for more than 600 students and the budget cut crisis will apparently have to wait.
  Heaven help us if we were to lose our SG diplomatic credibility with BRCC over an unaffiliated op-ed column.
  In all fairness, LSU SG didn’t come up with the resolution on its own. BRCC’s student government president contacted LSU SG officials, and, in courtesy to BRCC, the Senate wrote the resolution to pacify the situation.
  However, it did manage to take up most of the Senate’s time Wednesday. That was a waste because the resolution has already been printed many times.
  The newly-passed resolution already exists, in a more abbreviated form, in each and every copy of The Daily Reveille, located at the bottom left-page of the Opinion section labeled “Editorial Policies and Procedures.” 
  Keep this up, SG, and soon you’ll have the best public image imaginable — and will have accomplished nothing.
    Andrew Robertson is a 23-year-old English writing and culture senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_Arobertson.         —-
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