RAs – Require Assistance?
At Wednesday Night’s meeting, SGA Board of Governors voted to pass a resolution giving RAs priority scheduling.
Since it was a resolution, it only means that SGA supports this action, but not that any action was taken. It will have to go through the administration first.
However, some students questioned whether or not RAs should have priority scheduling and asked what about the rest of the student workers?
“I think the idea is really great but could it be expanded to students who need a certain number of hours of work?” said Cassie Werner, Mountaineer Maniacs director.
Werner said when she was an undergrad student she needed to work 20 hours a week as a lifeguard and would have greatly benefited by priority scheduling.
“The reason we only give it to RAs is because of the fact RAs give back to the University. They’re so critical,” Taylor Richmond, one of the resolution drafters, said.
I understand that the job of being an RA does require a lot of work, but I feel the resolution is benefiting only 180 students out of 29,000. Personally, as a commuter student, I’d love to have priority scheduling too. What do you think? Should RAs get priority scheduling or not?
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