There’s been a lot of hubbub lately about a snafu in the SG Senate process for budgeting student organizations for next year. I’ll let the Alligator do the talking: original story, follow-up, editorial, letter 1, letter 2. I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about this in the days to come.

The accusations are really flying. I’ll withhold judgment.

I’m going to get a copy of the video of Tuesday’s Senate meeting. At least, I’ll try: Senate meetings are recorded, but what happens to those recordings, I have no clue. (Maybe they go to the SG Vault in the Reitz Union basement?)

If I get a hold of the tape, I’ll try to digitize it and make it available via this Web site.

At this point, I can proudly note that the Unite Party platform includes the following promise: Televise Student Senate meetings via the Internet.

It’s common sense: make your information accessible. If you want people to participate, if you want to be inclusive, you have to make yourself and your information accessible. If you don’t do that, one can only assume you’re not really interested in inclusiveness.

I promise to work hard to bring SG and UF to a new standard of transparency. We’ll make it easy to find out what your Student Government and your administration are doing. We won’t do business in the dark; rather, we’ll commit ourselves to openness and accountability. Because democracy works best when the voters know what’s happening.

It’s just common sense.