The Post endorses sophomore Will Klatt for Student Senate president.

Not all of Klatt’s ideas are good. His idea for a student popular assembly — a massive group of about 500 students broken down into small sections to help Student Senate take more power — is particularly unrealistic. But Klatt’s demonstrated willingness to confront the Ohio University administration and his focus on expanded shared governance make him the most appealing candidate in a pool that collectively has many faults.

Klatt’s main selling points are his outsider’s perspective and his zeal to give Student Senate resolutions some teeth. Unlike all of his opponents, Klatt has not yet been given the chance to improve a traditionally ineffectual senate. Instead of lobbying on the state level (as senior Tim Vonville has suggested) or giving students a just-graduated representative in McDavis’ cabinet (as senior Patrick Heery has suggested), Klatt proposes boycotts and sit-ins to pressure administrators into action if all other options fail. The proposal is simple, but it is the most feasible given the one-year term of Student Senate presidents. Klatt also proposes giving veto power to two of the four representative senates at Ohio University if they oppose an administrative decision. That’s a concrete idea that truly would help the state of shared governance.

Klatt would do well, however, to adopt some of the proposals of his opponents. Heery’s ideas for increased budget transparency are admirable, as is Vonville’s idea to get student senators out of the office every week. The final candidate, graduate student Shane Tilton, seems a little out of touch with the students here, but Klatt would do well to follow his lead in representing graduate students better in Student Senate.

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