Research begets good campaigns

I won't say "I told you so," because there are countless others who already are. What I will say is this: I'm a journalism major, with a specialization in public relations. The most important thing you learn in PR is that there are four steps an organization needs to go through whenever it launches a campaign (Vote Hard IS a campaign, is it not?). For obvious reasons, the first step is a little something called RESEARCH -- something that, had the Kirkwood administration stopped for even an hour to conduct, would have saved our campus and student government a lot of time and controversy. \nIt was bad enough that money was actually allotted to buy the Corvette; now we find out that because Kirkwood didn't take the time to cover all the bases, the expenditure truly has turned out to be for nothing. \nMy advice to whomever wins that car: sell it. Buy yourself something that seats more than two people, pay your reasonable taxes and insurance, and donate the rest to the student groups who were cheated out of $60,000.