Representation Gone Bad
An Open Letter From Fine Arts Constituents to Action’s Tomer Shavit
In recent weeks, we have seen countless politically minded students enter the Concordia Student Union elections for the upcoming academic year.
In light of the current scandalized team, Fusion, this year’s slates are both campaigning for transparency and representation of the typical Concordian’s voice.
One potential senate representative of Fine Arts, however, threatens these essential rights of the Concordia Community.
Action’s Tomer Shavit has consistently misrepresented the general opinions of most Fine Arts students within his role as CSU councillor, most notably during the March 9 council meeting regarding the resignation of Morgan Pudwell.
Despite having over seventy students interested in hearing both sides of the issue, Shavit was vocal in supporting the current executive’s choice of going into closed session. Following this blatant lack of support for the students, he took to the comments section of The Link’s online article, “Call for Security: Student Union VPs.” He alleged that Pudwell was “inept” and “dormant” in reference to her involvement in the Women’s caucus, co-chaired by CSU President Heather Lucas.
As students, we of all people understand that Shavit is entitled to express his opinion. However, we find it wildly hypocritical, not to mention embarrassing to his constituents, that he voted to go into closed session to receive “privacy to discuss personnel issues surrounding Pudwell’s resignation,” only to spread malicious rumors about his colleague (and constituent) mere hours later through a public open forum on the internet.
We wish to convey to Shavit that we do not agree with his decision to go into closed session during the March 9 CSU Council meeting, and we do not condone any disparaging comments made towards Pudwell.
During the voting period of March 29-31, Andy Filipowich of Your Concordia opposes Shavit for the position of Fine Arts Senator.
It is our hope that the elected official voted in is largely in-tune with the students they represent, and works towards strengthening the reputation of our faculty.
—150 Fine Arts Students
