The Undergraduate Student Government at Ohio State has become largely a caricature of what it is supposed to be and is ineffective in enacting real change on campus. The organization is used as a means for students to boast their own involvement for personal gain; merely a resume builder for students who would otherwise not care about creating meaningful dialogue or solving salient issues. While the University prides itself in being accessible to all students, and uses its USG to reaffirm this notion, less than half of the students at the University know what the organization does and even less students know of any meaningful results that have come from it.

One of the most problematic aspects of USG is its budget decisions that are not made with any input from the student body at large. Items such as cameras (hundreds of dollars), parties and events held for members (hundreds of dollars), promotional materials (hundreds of dollars), and even items listed as "miscellaneous" being used at the discretion of those involved (thousands of dollars) are being bought with no input from the student body. Example Budgets Members are given free reign when it comes to their fiscal irresponsibility, and they need to be stopped.

Just recently, Ohio State's USG published a public apology letter in which they cited the university as being being an "inherently racist institution"Tweet as a response to their own internal arguments. How can we expect any good to be done by an organization that calls its own university, and the students that compose it, racist? This organization is mismanaged, a waste of university resources, and unrepresentative of the student body. The resources allocated to USG would be much better spent by other campus organizations like OUAB, or even by an entirely new body that takes into account the input of both students and faculty members alike.