The University of Minnesota administration has decided to take this matter over, announcing that is moving ahead to plan a campus-wide remembrance of 9/11 without waiting for input from student government. In making the announcement yesterday, Board of Regents Chair Dean Johnson and President Eric Kaler noted that the Board of Regents had held a moment of silence in remembrance of the victims of the 9/11 attacks at their September board meeting. After that meeting, Kaler met with some students who requested a campus-wide remembrance of 9/11, and at that time Kaler indicated he supported the idea, but he suggested they take it to the student government “to gain additional input.”
http://discover.umn.edu/news/campus-community/university-remember-911-victims
My editorial comment: it appears to me the students who pushed this at the last meeting of the MSA and then tried to build it up into a big kerfluffle were more interested in using it as a political football than in advancing a serious proposal. Had they been serious about it, they would have developed some ideas about what such a campus-wide remembrance would look like, as had been requested of them when it came up in committee. Instead they pushed a half-a**ed resolution with no meat to it, and were only too delighted when it was rejected by the MSA, giving them the opportunity to attack the University for “political correctness.” Over a proposal that already had the full backing of the University’s president. That’s a pretty cheap stunt, in my opinion, one that dishonors the victims of 9/11 by holding them out as political bait.