For all of you with vitriol to spew about ASUNM, here's your chance to ask potential presidents and vice presidents those hard-hitting questions you so badly want answered.
For the first time in a long time, ASUNM's presidential and vice presidential candidates are opening themselves up to you, me and anybody else who wants to spend a mere hour and a half or less on the east side of the SUB or in its atrium today and Tuesday. We'll be able to hear each candidate's pitch for why he or she deserves to be elected, and audience members will be able to ask just about any question they see fit.
The first forum is today from noon to 1:30 p.m., and the second will be Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
While this shouldn't have taken so long to get together in the first place, it's commendable that ASUNM is reaching out to more students beyond its members repeating the tired mantra that their office doors in the SUB are always open. Good politicians know they have to come to the people, rather than wait for the people to come to them. And here's to hoping this is the first step of many in the direction of showing UNM's undergraduate students that ASUNM isn't as cloistered a body as many have made it out to be.
The campus chapter of NMPIRG deserves praise for taking on the task of setting everything up for the forums, as do KUNM producer and reporter Danny Hernandez and political science professor Gabriel Sanchez, who will serve as moderators.
Now it's your turn as students to show up and ask each and every question you've wanted answered by potential presidents and vice presidents, even if it's just to find out what exactly they do.
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If you don't take this opportunity to show ASUNM that you want to know what it does and how it does it, you hardly have the right to go on bashing it.
