Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The Right to Education

Nobody but the students themselves will be the determining factor of whether education will continue to be their main focus in an increasingly unstable period for this university and the student body.

The powers of the student government are limited to the forces greater than them, but they are not limited to help those whom they are meant to serve, the students. It will be pertinent to implement the tools for knowledge to our student body, and subsequently have the power to resist limitations and accept the challenge of pursuing the only thing we as students, we as people, will forever own apart from our family, friends, our society and our government, which is our individual education.

Our education, and right to be educated as an individual but part of a collective, is and will be the most important goal for short term and long term preservation. We as humans have more strength, power, and dignity over our own lives and our individual paths as long as we continue to strive for knowledge of this world in the days of yesterday, today and tomorrow. It is my personal belief that the path of our country is one in which the agenda of others will continue to, more frequently and to a greater degree, affect our liberties, rights, and power as individuals and as a united people, to defend our natural rights...


“Life, faculties, production—in other words, individuality,
liberty, property—this is man. And in spite of the cunning of art-
ful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all
human legislation, and are superior to it.”
- Frederic Bastiat, The Law


Respectfully...


“We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain Unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
- U.S. Declaration of Independence


I believe education is the foundation to a sense of security within our society and the world and a primary need for human advancement. It will be my position as student body President to provide as much knowledge and capability to continue education despite higher costs. I will implement the tools to make educational funding options more apparent and the option for the student as individuals or groups to explore their options for grants, scholarships and loans. By working with the financial aid department, together we can better inform and offer more options to our student body to fund our education and our futures.

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