The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) president is supposed to have the necessary leadership skills to pull people together, and USG senators are supposed to represent the students. They need to put their egos aside and realize that stopping USG President Galen Foulke from reforming USG only hurts the students ("USG Senate opposes advocacy group," Feb. 8).

Instead, the entire USG is consumed with petty politics about student government. And really, it's not as if people die when USG screws up.

The constitution they have "sworn to protect" means nothing to students. The purpose of student government is not to wave around a piece of paper and say, "Look! We have a constitution!" It is to stand up and give a voice to students who are being railroaded by tuition increases, who think areas downtown need to be safer and who have been forced to live off campus by irresponsible policy decisions. Its time USG pulls its act together and does its job.