Timing is everything.
But ASMSU seems to be a bit behind.
Months after the independent commission reviewing the April 2-3 disturbances released its report, MSU's undergraduate student government is demanding that MSU police be held responsible for its actions regarding events surrounding the disturbances.
ASMSU is currently working on a bill that would ask the Executive Committee of Academic Governance to create a special investigative committee to decide if MSU police "shirked" its duty by not cooperating with the independent commission.
It's a great idea for ASMSU to take students' needs into account and try to do something about it.
But it took ASMSU, what, three months after the commission released its report to discover this?
If this was a pressing problem, ASMSU should have gotten involved and demanded that the MSU police be more cooperative when the commission was still meeting.
Because the bill — a potentially positive step for students — is late, it looks like ASMSU is just beating a dead horse.
A horse that collapsed and died in October, when students decided they didn't want their voices heard and failed to show up to the independent commission's public hearing.
Or maybe it died when members of ASMSU, who were assigned to the commission, failed to show up for several meetings.
Even if students do still care about that night, it's questionable what the actual effect of having another investigation would be.
The independent commission was created to investigate that night and it met for months on end to eventually release a report with recommendations to prevent the disturbances from happening again. So far, the city has yet to make a decision about any of them.
If there were a special investigation into the MSU police's actions, it would be more months of public hearings that students wouldn't go to, the release of another lengthy report and then more recommendations with many that probably wouldn't ever be implemented.
What's the point, then, of holding a new investigation?
ASMSU members make a good point about many students wanting an apology.
But if students get an apology from anyone, it should be from the MSU administration who hasn't been extremely vocal on this issue since it happened almost a year ago.
What this university needs to do is prepare for this year's NCAA basketball tournament. The last thing we need is another commission that ends up doing nothing and doesn't bring anyone closure.
It seems most students have moved on from that night. Maybe it's time ASMSU does too.
