3/18/10 - 8:00 pm

To the disappointment of student government leaders, the bill giving two students voting rights on the CSU System Board of Governors was postponed indefinitely 2-6 in the state Senate Education Committee Thursday afternoon. Though House Bill 1206 did not become law this legislative session, Associated Students of CSU and CSU-Pueblo student government leaders are ready to head back to the drawing board and make improvements, said Matt Worthington, director of ASCSU’s Legislative Affairs Department. “We left the committee thinking, we shall return,” Worthington said of students’ plans for the future. There was a lot of discussion in support of HB 1206, Worthington said, but senators were concerned that students do not have the lifetime experience current board members bring to the table. While he understands that students do not have the same level of political and business expertise as someone like CSU Chancellor Joe Blake, who has ran in the “Denver arena for 40 years,” ASCSU President Dan Gearhart said students have a unique and equally important outlook. “We have student experience,” Gearhart said.