At a campus where the female percentage approaches 70%, common sense would indicate that the overall interests of females are fairly well represented, through sheer power in numbers if nothing else. Yet, an increasingly controversial SC presidential department continues to exist that promotes left-wing feminism and blatant attempts to push a political agenda in a capacity in which partisanship should not be present. The Student Confederation is a body that was created to represent the interests of all students, not resemble a left wing political action committee. We at The American Journal feel that women are already adequately represented on campus and do not need a Women's Initiative to represent their interests.

If anything, why aren't the brainchildren of SC policy creating a Men's Initiative to represent the gender that is truly outnumbered on campus? Of course that wouldn't be politically correct because men have long supposedly oppressed women and it isn't in style with the current trend to protect the traditional male. The Women's Initiative could be compared to slave reparations in the sense that special privileges and sympathy are being granted to theoretically atone for all of the alleged injustices women have suffered as a result of men. After all, that is exactly the message that comes out of the Women's Initiative; they coordinate women who are determined to show how strong-willed and powerful they are and they set the campus ablaze with their "I'm a woman, look at me, look what I've done" displays of feminism. Funny how most feminists aren't quite feminine, huh?

Skeptical of our assertion that the Women's Initiative is little more than a thinly veiled apparatus of aggression directed towards men? Consider the language used by Director Illissa Gould during her confirmation process at a General Assembly meeting when she referred to pro-life individuals as being "anti-choice." Do you sense any angry feminism, political rhetoric, or animosity towards a dissenting opinion in that statement? We do, and it was the last slap in the face from the Women's Initiative we will tolerate. We don't really support the creation of a Men's Initiative; that was merely a sarcastic remark and creating a male balance to the Women's Initiative would only create more bureaucracy in an already overblown Student Confederation. The time has come, though, for the Women's Initiative to go. It should have never been created in the first place and we at TAJ call upon the General Assembly to introduce appropriate legislation to bar SC general funding for the program immediately.