It is the beginning of the semester and another Student Association election is underway. Besides the search for qualified and interested people to fill the open senate positions, those of you who vote also can give your input on a long-time campus issue.

On the election ballot, students will be asked to vote on whether they are willing to pay a $2 fee next year to help support the construction of a Martin Luther King, Jr. statue for the King Memorial Commons.

The statue started off as a good idea, but has brought turmoil with its development and the whole statue fiasco has become a blur of confusion.

The issue for the moment is not necessarily whether students support having a King statue, but whether students are willing to contribute more than they already have to a $140,000 project, which initially was $20,000.

After all of the time and money that has been lost in this project, everyone probably would like to see a statue in the completed commons area. This referendum, however, has been thrown at the students too quickly and is not offering any other options. On the surface it appears that either the students pull some of the additional funds out of their pockets, or there just won’t be any statue.

If a yes or no answer is all that is asked for on the ballot today, students must get out and vote against the referendum until they know exactly where there money is going and are guaranteed the results they expect.