Public Service Announcement: Elliott Haunted House
Since I'm seeing and hearing shit all over concerning the Haunted House I will state my view here publicly.
I did not take away the Haunted House. I did not choose to put it up to a vote. I did try to make sure that those invested in the project were present at Hall Council since I knew their voices should be heard.
I also did not resign or force Liz to resign. It was her choice. I had heard nothing of her resignation until 5pm Tuesday when Matt, not Liz, informed me. We were having our already scheduled exec retreat and so I brought it up to my execs and allowed them to decide what we should do. It was our choice as a group to have Hall Council vote on the choice to have me appoint someone to take over or to run a dance event in place of the Haunted House this year following Matt's suggestion that we do not put it up for a vote and instead take over the event as Hall Council and let Venus (the Social Chair) run it since it would fall under her duties in the constitution. I did not want to see that happen, so I, along with a few other execs, fought to put it up to a vote.
Prior to the vote, I allowed 20 minutes of discussion on the topic. I did not say how I felt either way, nor did I vote on the issue. Liz did not talk to me about resigning before hand, she did not inform me that she felt alienated or unsupported. Had she talked to me I would have told her that I fully supported the Haunted House, and in fact encouraged people to join. I only knew about the Monday meetings and in fact came to one of them, however, I have a Monday night class and so I was late when I came. Also, I'm not into Haunted Houses or scary things in general. I was uninterested in helping with the planning aspects but fully prepared to help out with the execution of the event itself.
Hall Council is my main concern, I had been busy with elections and trying to get people to the meeting. Liz had not been to exec board in the past two weeks, so she did not know what was going on with us. People had informed me that she was complaining about being too busy. As I realize how hard that can be, I talked to her about it and let her know that if she needed more time she was not required to come to exec and instead she could just give reports/announcements at Hall Council. She didn't look up from her drawing the entire time I was trying to tell her this, so I didn't continue and all I got in response was a ok.
So, I'm sorry Liz resigned. I understand it's hard. I'm sorry the Haunted House was canceled, but Liz stating in her resignation that she felt the Haunted House should be canceled for this year hurt that cause a lot. Constitutionally, I should have held elections, which would have taken 3 weeks to get a new Haunted House chair. I already explained all of this.
Matt didn't want it to go up for a vote because he was afraid that things would get catty and people who had worked on the Haunted House would walk with Liz. Isn't it unfortunate that he may have been right?
My point is, I did not take away the Haunted House. Liz did not talk to me before hand, was unaware she felt unsupported. I did not know she planned on giving her resignation in person until 9:30 on Tuesday night when I went looking for her to talk about the situation, that is also the first and last I heard of Elsa wanting to take over. This option was not brought up during discussion. LIz told me that she was resigning for professional reasons and because she didn't have the time to put in, I had no way of knowing that she felt unsupported. She also told me that she wished I hadn't already told my execs because she didn't want to be talked out of it.
I'm tired of people blaming me. I'm tired of being held responsible. I'm tired of different stories being told to different people. If someone else thinks they can do it better, please let me know. I try to make the best choices I can with what I am given. I'm a student too, I have classes and friends and things going on outside of Elliott on campus. I am busy and stressed just like everyone else. If people want me to resign as President just fucking say it to my face and then try and do the job yourself. I have gotten nothing but yelled at and shit on for the past month. No one says, "Thank you for getting food for Hall Council." No one tells me good job for anything done well and no one has come to talk to me about problems they're having. I only get anonymous comments in the suggestion box, secondhand information, or things posted on the internet. I'm not magic and I can't read minds, I'm a student just like the rest of you. I want to do the best job I can, and I try to please as many people as I can.
If people are going to continue to act this way, don't worry it'll be my resignation that goes in next.
I did not take away the Haunted House. I did not choose to put it up to a vote. I did try to make sure that those invested in the project were present at Hall Council since I knew their voices should be heard.
I also did not resign or force Liz to resign. It was her choice. I had heard nothing of her resignation until 5pm Tuesday when Matt, not Liz, informed me. We were having our already scheduled exec retreat and so I brought it up to my execs and allowed them to decide what we should do. It was our choice as a group to have Hall Council vote on the choice to have me appoint someone to take over or to run a dance event in place of the Haunted House this year following Matt's suggestion that we do not put it up for a vote and instead take over the event as Hall Council and let Venus (the Social Chair) run it since it would fall under her duties in the constitution. I did not want to see that happen, so I, along with a few other execs, fought to put it up to a vote.
Prior to the vote, I allowed 20 minutes of discussion on the topic. I did not say how I felt either way, nor did I vote on the issue. Liz did not talk to me about resigning before hand, she did not inform me that she felt alienated or unsupported. Had she talked to me I would have told her that I fully supported the Haunted House, and in fact encouraged people to join. I only knew about the Monday meetings and in fact came to one of them, however, I have a Monday night class and so I was late when I came. Also, I'm not into Haunted Houses or scary things in general. I was uninterested in helping with the planning aspects but fully prepared to help out with the execution of the event itself.
Hall Council is my main concern, I had been busy with elections and trying to get people to the meeting. Liz had not been to exec board in the past two weeks, so she did not know what was going on with us. People had informed me that she was complaining about being too busy. As I realize how hard that can be, I talked to her about it and let her know that if she needed more time she was not required to come to exec and instead she could just give reports/announcements at Hall Council. She didn't look up from her drawing the entire time I was trying to tell her this, so I didn't continue and all I got in response was a ok.
So, I'm sorry Liz resigned. I understand it's hard. I'm sorry the Haunted House was canceled, but Liz stating in her resignation that she felt the Haunted House should be canceled for this year hurt that cause a lot. Constitutionally, I should have held elections, which would have taken 3 weeks to get a new Haunted House chair. I already explained all of this.
Matt didn't want it to go up for a vote because he was afraid that things would get catty and people who had worked on the Haunted House would walk with Liz. Isn't it unfortunate that he may have been right?
My point is, I did not take away the Haunted House. Liz did not talk to me before hand, was unaware she felt unsupported. I did not know she planned on giving her resignation in person until 9:30 on Tuesday night when I went looking for her to talk about the situation, that is also the first and last I heard of Elsa wanting to take over. This option was not brought up during discussion. LIz told me that she was resigning for professional reasons and because she didn't have the time to put in, I had no way of knowing that she felt unsupported. She also told me that she wished I hadn't already told my execs because she didn't want to be talked out of it.
I'm tired of people blaming me. I'm tired of being held responsible. I'm tired of different stories being told to different people. If someone else thinks they can do it better, please let me know. I try to make the best choices I can with what I am given. I'm a student too, I have classes and friends and things going on outside of Elliott on campus. I am busy and stressed just like everyone else. If people want me to resign as President just fucking say it to my face and then try and do the job yourself. I have gotten nothing but yelled at and shit on for the past month. No one says, "Thank you for getting food for Hall Council." No one tells me good job for anything done well and no one has come to talk to me about problems they're having. I only get anonymous comments in the suggestion box, secondhand information, or things posted on the internet. I'm not magic and I can't read minds, I'm a student just like the rest of you. I want to do the best job I can, and I try to please as many people as I can.
If people are going to continue to act this way, don't worry it'll be my resignation that goes in next.