Two days ago, University leaders officially decided to establish a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender center on campus. This decision was announced during a meeting that was neither widely publicized nor attended.

At this meeting, Tom Stafford, vice chancellor for student affairs, and Jose Picart, vice provost for diversity and African American Affairs, announced the decision to open the center. The meeting, which was held over lunch, did not include any debate or discussion.

The University failed once again to provide an open process and provide a complete and accurate plan to the public and campus community prior to making a policy decision.

Even though the decision to open the LGBT center has been reached there still are many questions that have not been answered. These questions include: where the center will be housed, what the overall budget for the center will be, where the money to fund the center is coming from and when the center will officially be opened?

These are important questions that should have been answered at the onset of the proposal. The N.C. State community deserved to know these answers and have an opportunity to comment on them before the final decision was made to open the center.

State administrators have a history of making decisions with little debate and lackluster information, evident in this decision-making process.

Debating and discussing important issues is a crucial part of the college experience. This is a time when people truly begin to understand themselves and deliberating and conversing about hot topics plays a large role of self-understanding.

The University needs to make a policy of how feedback is given and received on many issues that arise on a college campus. The University must make sure that during this feedback period, all information is complete and up-to-date.

The University must change the way it goes about making decisions. Students and the rest of the N.C. State community deserve to be presented with a comprehensive plan and be provided with ample opportunity for feedback on proposed policies. The administration failed the members of the Wolfpack family when it came to the LGBT center decision. But it has a chance to make up for it.

Provide us a thorough plan. Give us dates and numbers. Keep us involved. Stop making the same mistakes over and over.