Dinowitz asks Lehman students about student government experience

Alan, I'd love to get a cup of coffee with you to talk about that hat.

From the Bronx.

The only people we're allowed to discriminate against in this world are Yankee fans.

You're sitting next to three Bronx students there.

So far, I know.

The catsmen and I are friends.

I just want to, for the Lehman students, really proud to represent Lehman College.

And just if you could talk really briefly about if you have experience in the student senate, and if you think having earned a seal would have made that communication better,

related to Alan's comments, or if you still find as Senate students.

Members of the Senate, like it's still challenging, like some of your colleagues, it's like really hard to talk to.

Can you speak a little bit about those experiences?

Ashley?

I think I can speak for it because I never had any government knowledge or even knowledge of SGA up until Gleeman College.

And I found so that I would be more effective in the work that I do had I had some form of knowledge of what even just saying

adjourn or the very simple terms that took me about a whole month to learn that by the second meeting, we finally are all on board.

However, we could have just got straight to work that first meeting had we known or been educated.

And that was one of the things that I was thinking for next year when I get elected into position, starting that training early.

But however, if that training would have began in high school, we would have never had to do catch up.

I would have known this coming straight through the door and been able to have been more effective.

And it does show in my

experiences and it makes me wish that I would have had this training offered to me prior to wanting to be involved and I also think it would have

gave students the ability to want to be involved because a lot of students are not exposed to this and if they were they would have more interest in government in wanting to vote in getting out there and wanting to to be involved in the community boards um yeah

Yeah, sometimes like those terms, people get really fixated on the words and Robert's rules of order.

But those are sometimes the structures that allow people to hear one another and allow everyone's voices to be heard.

And so that's a really interesting perspective and something that would be cool if our high school students spoke, used Robert's rules of orders for their classes.

That would be hilarious.

And awesome, but hilarious too.

Anyone else want anything?