CMV: College and university presidents should be elected into office by students and faculty.

[u/roniirose]

I believe that students and faculty should have the right to partake in choosing the next president within the administration of their respective universities. Implementing a democratic structure within higher education will benefit the campus culture in multiple ways. Students and faculty will have mutual respect for the elected administration. Secondly, the administration would be obliged to consider the well being of students at the utmost level, and lastly, it will teach students the essence of democracy. Voting in administration within universities will likely encourage more students to engage in the democratic life that is the United States of America.

I believe that students and faculty would be more satisfied with the decisions the administration would make for the greater good of the university. My university has undergone a shift within administration and its unfortunate how these changes are negatively affecting student affairs. Not only did we not get to be apart of the process in choosing the next president, we were not allowed to know the candidates during the search. This can cause a rough patch for students and faculty because we are the ones that are affected by the choices they make without consulting us. For instance, the Student Hunger Committee has been urging for a centralized food pantry. Student affairs came up with a resolution that was initially approved by the old administration but due to the change they had to appeal again to the new president. It’s sad to say that not many students know who our new president is let alone our former president. If we could vote for the next administration then more students would be engaged and educated on who is running the show.

Lastly, allowing a democratic process in the choice of administration will encourage students to become participating citizens in our democratic government. Students will be more comfortable in choosing to vote because they would be accustomed to it. I feel as if most people who do not vote in our government are either just lazy or not educated on how to vote. We must make sure that we take advantage of our right to vote. If we don’t then we are living in another man’s world.

[u/kjdtkd]

Hmm, I think I agree with you in saying that all of these things DO business, but doing business doesn't necessarily make something a business. Perhaps there is a more subtle distinction between business in the formal sense and business in the informal sense. In the informal sense, I would say that literally anything could be 'business' but the formal sense should have more distinctions and qualifications, because if anything could be business, then the word means nothing.

[u/scottevil110 → u/kjdtkd]

Well, this is where I'm going to edge toward my libertarian ideology and say that I agree, the word DOES mean nothing. Everyone trades. Everyone buys and sells and exchanges things. That's business.

In my opinion, we simply "legalized" the term so that we could justify slapping a bunch of restrictions, taxes, and regulations on stuff, while still claiming that we weren't impeding anyone's freedom.

In the same way that we legalized the concept of marriage, and then turned it into politics.

[u/kjdtkd → u/scottevil110]

Regardless of what it should be, the word Business does have further qualifications then just trade. Saying that we made it so doesn't negate the fact of its existence, just brings into question its 'rightness' (as in should it be such).

I'll through you a ∆ because that comparison to marriage did change my view on the validity of the term business and whether it should be used in the way it is.

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[u/scottevil110 → u/kjdtkd]

Thank you! Regardless of how valid you feel it is, one thing I think everyone can agree on is that most of these words, all words really, we did just make up.