ITHACA, N.Y. – Students at Cornell University are kicking around the idea of holding elections for different individual minority positions on the student assembly, and restricting the voting based on race.

Junior Julia Montejo, one of two minority representatives on the assembly next year, complained at a recent meeting that two positions aren’t enough to represent the all of the different minorities on campus, The Cornell Sun reports.

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“We had a pretty hard race running for minority liaisons, and that’s because the minority community wants to be represented,” she said.

“I don’t need to hear statistics in order to know that people feel underrepresented because I hear those stories everyday,” she said. “As someone who is a Latina student, I felt very underrepresented on this campus up until my sophomore year when I started seeing more people of color running and more people reaching out to different people.”

The majority of students at the assembly meeting last Thursday argued in favor of a new structure with representatives for each individual minority group on campus, and several advocated for only allowing students of the same race to vote on the positions, Fox News reports.

“As someone who is graduating this year and has seen multiple minority representative elections, this is something that comes up time and time again.” senior Noelani Gabriel said. “It’s not a race of how well you understand the issues of your community, it’s a race about how many white folks you know and how many you can get to vote.”

Another student, who was not identified by The Cornell Review, put it more bluntly.

“People in the minority group, not people in the majority group, should choose their representative,” the student said “to a thunderous round of snaps.”

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Other students have made the same suggestion on the student assembly’s Facebook page.

Fox News points out that Cornell’s student assembly already has two special liaison positions for minorities, as well as liaisons representing international students, LGBTQ students, female students and first-generation college students.

From the Review:

Correct: a significant proportion of attendees at Thursday’s meeting were all in for elections restricted by race and gender. While the select few of us still residing on Planet Earth were busy recovering our composure, another Student Assembly member went out on a limb and brought up a well-founded fact: restricting elections based on race is illegal in the United States. Nevertheless, as the meeting drew to a close, the crowd was still into the whole race-based voting thing.

The message of Thursday’s meeting was clear: firstly, Cornell’s Student Assembly has no concern for, or basis in, statistics or facts—ideology reigns supreme at the end of the day. Secondly, and in a similar vein, the SA pays no heed to the laws of the United States or students’ rights. Thirdly, the Student Assembly is uninterested in the needs and desires of anyone is who is not in their minds an underrepresented minority; these people the SA has deemed impervious to problems and, if anything, should see their rights (like the ability to speak during an open forum) curbed.

Not everyone at the meeting was on board with race-based student assembly elections, however.

Junior Alex Iglesias suggested that the student assembly would be better off thinking up ways current representatives can engage their constituents more effectively.

“By establishing minority specific positions, we may marginalize other groups on campus if they aren’t included,” Iglesias said, according to the Sun.

Sophomore Will Stone said he thinks the student assembly already has too many members as it is.

“This is a fundamental problem with quality versus quantity. I’m also very interested in seeing a quantitative study of just how well these minority groups are represented in the current structure,” he said. “We have 28 members right now, and I’m not sure how this matches up with the current Cornell population.”

Ironically, it appears many Cornell students couldn’t care less what their student assembly is up to. Out of the 22 positions on the student assembly elected in March, 13 won their races uncontested.

As the Review put it, “in terms of SA relevance to students, this might be an all-time low.”