Thursday, September 6, 2001

No Vacancy
PC chairs’ grade lapses unacceptable

Programming Council provides a great service to the TCU community.

They sponsor Family Weekend, Homecoming activities and plan concerts that bring the TCU campus together. But lately PC is having trouble keeping some positions filled.

Currently, PC has found someone to be chairperson of Special Events and they have also found an interim chairperson of Family Weekend after the two previous chairpersons were forced to leave their positions because they failed to meet the academic requirements. The same troubles have left the Concert chair position vacant.

PC, get your act together.

Each student at TCU gives $20 in Student Government fees. According to Student Government President Brian Wood, PC gets $230,000 a year from those fees. For that amount of money, students should expect to see quality returns on their money.

Concerts and activities for Homecoming and Family Weekend are things TCU students have learned to enjoy and expect. Can we trust PC to deliver when they can’t hold on to the people that are supposed to organize these events?

Sara Komenda, vice president of PC, said resignations are common because the chairpersons cannot meet the demands of their position. She said grades and other activities tend to suffer because of the time commitment.

If that’s the case, one of two things need to be done. Either PC needs to develop stricter requirements and be more selective when screening chairperson candidates, or candidates need to learn the meaning of commitment.

When these people failed to meet university academic requirements for their positions, they also displayed disregard for the TCU community.

Komenda said the currently unfilled position for Concert chairperson is not affecting PC much because they have support from other members. But what happens when other members burn out from trying to do too much at once?

PC needs to plan ahead and hold members to their commitments. Let’s just hope that PC meets campus expectations while they are trying to fill some empty shoes.