The One Problem I Have With Smoking Bans (and the like)

The latest issue of The Leader brings up the issue of whether the Chancellor will uphold the recommendations of the Physical Environment Committee on campus and restrict smoking access in the Union. This is all well and good except for one thing: We, the students of UWM, pay for the maintenance of the Union through Segregated Fees. As a result, it should be expected that we would be able to make the decisions for this building.

As the article pointed out, there was no real input from the students before this decision was made. This is a common theme around here, and we cannot let it continue. Personally, I don't smoke, and any decision to ban smoking in the Union will not affect me in the slightest, but the decision should be made by us, not by random officials who rarely visit the Union.