Where Have All the Gift Cards Gone?
Ever since former Student Body President Kirk Murray resigned after admitting to mishandling SG’s gift card program any mention of gift cards in SG’s offices will elicit a round of laughter.
It’s become an inside joke.
But what isn’t a joke is that 67 cards are still sitting in Associate Dean of Student Affairs Lisa Bardill’s office –collecting dust.
And most SG leaders have no interest in dusting them off.
Controversy ensued after it was discovered that at least 50 applications had been forged. And about $2,500 in students’ money was misused. Murray was accused of stealing the cards, buying books with them and then returning them for cash.
But there’s another $3,350 worth in Bardill’s office that isn’t being handed out or used at all. Some of those cards belong to students, but just haven’t been given out to them. Those students have a right to be contacted, and it’s up to the current SG administration to make it right. And what about those students who had their names and personal information used to illegally obtain gift cards. Was a written apology ever issued by the university or SG leaders? No. Instead it's just been swept under the rug.
During the UP's investigation it came across one student who did fill an application and was supposed to recieve one of the fabled gifts cards. However, he was never contacted by SG and the UP refered him to SG's offices. He was then told SG no longer had possession of the cards.
While many SG leaders say the burdens of their predecessors should not fall of their shoulders, that’s just not the real world. The burden of the Iraq War will eventually fall on another president’s shoulders, just as the burdens of failing companies fall on the next CEO’s shoulders.
And so the legacy of the gift card program is now sitting on the current SG administration’s shoulders. If SG is serious about cleaning up their image for the future, they need to first clear up the wreckage of their past.
Of course the UP could just start another investigation into the students who should have received their gift cards but were never contacted, which is about 52 or $2,600 worth.
It’s become an inside joke.
But what isn’t a joke is that 67 cards are still sitting in Associate Dean of Student Affairs Lisa Bardill’s office –collecting dust.
And most SG leaders have no interest in dusting them off.
Controversy ensued after it was discovered that at least 50 applications had been forged. And about $2,500 in students’ money was misused. Murray was accused of stealing the cards, buying books with them and then returning them for cash.
But there’s another $3,350 worth in Bardill’s office that isn’t being handed out or used at all. Some of those cards belong to students, but just haven’t been given out to them. Those students have a right to be contacted, and it’s up to the current SG administration to make it right. And what about those students who had their names and personal information used to illegally obtain gift cards. Was a written apology ever issued by the university or SG leaders? No. Instead it's just been swept under the rug.
During the UP's investigation it came across one student who did fill an application and was supposed to recieve one of the fabled gifts cards. However, he was never contacted by SG and the UP refered him to SG's offices. He was then told SG no longer had possession of the cards.
While many SG leaders say the burdens of their predecessors should not fall of their shoulders, that’s just not the real world. The burden of the Iraq War will eventually fall on another president’s shoulders, just as the burdens of failing companies fall on the next CEO’s shoulders.
And so the legacy of the gift card program is now sitting on the current SG administration’s shoulders. If SG is serious about cleaning up their image for the future, they need to first clear up the wreckage of their past.
Of course the UP could just start another investigation into the students who should have received their gift cards but were never contacted, which is about 52 or $2,600 worth.
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