Comments on: A Letter to Student Government

By: Doppelgänger

Doppelgänger — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:06:25 +0000

Student government has no real power other than appropriating funds to clubs. It can be superseded at any time by this-or-that task force or what have you. It's really just a huge resume-padding operation. They shouldn't be paid a dime. From what I've seen of student government, barely anyone in it knows parliamentary procedure.

We should elect them by gathering every undergraduate in the quad and tossing out glittery phallus-shaped hats. If it touches you, you have to serve the full term and wear the hat on campus at all times.

By: nkeune

nkeune — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:27:28 +0000

I actually met O'Keefe once. I have to say he's just utterly insufferable.

By: reader

reader — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:47:02 +0000

I was agreeing. Student government takes themselves too seriously, resulting in ridiculous fee increases.

By: jlcrowde

jlcrowde — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:24:25 +0000

Don't get what you are talking about. Can't tell if you are mad at me or not. I certainly don't want to raise student fees.

By: jlcrowde

jlcrowde — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:23:41 +0000

Well leadership in the context of the job requirements is good leadership. That's what I was talking about.

By: reader

reader — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:36:09 +0000

For some of us, it's not even our parents' expendable income that's going towards these fees, but rather our own minimum-wage income and student loan money.

But go ahead: raise the student fees. I'll only graduate a couple thousand more in debt. I'm sure my enormous salary as a humanities major will more than cover it once I graduate.

By: Riley Matheson

Riley Matheson — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:25:52 +0000

I would go so far as to say that anyone who actually votes in these elections is MUCH too involved in campus “politics.” I’ll never forget the SBP candidates who used to knock on my dorm room door. My freshman year (oops! Don’t want to be sexist! I meant to say “first” year…) my roommate put a sign on our door threatening to vote against the next candidate who knocked on our door, and our sophomore year we just about made some yuppie gasp when we told him that we would never waste the 20 seconds that it took to vote online just for the sake of keeping our pride. We moved off campus the next two years.

By: ___0_

___0_ — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:20:16 +0000

Are "student government positions … leadership positions" OR should student leaders be anonymous functionaries who are neither "supporters [n]or the protectors of the students"? You can't have it both ways. Leadership means, you know, leading.

Re: O'Keefe and friends — pretty funny stuff, it's difficult to fully grasp the level of stupidity there. I imagine there are some CR staff who idolized young James for his career trajectory from right-wing college organizations to media celebrity…. now he's facing up to 10 years in federal prison because he's apparently as dumb as a rock.

By: jlcrowde

jlcrowde — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:40:38 +0000

That link was funny and sad at the same time haha

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:12:54 +0000

It doesn't seem that unreasonable to me that the Student Body President sees the position as a job. After all, the position comes with a generous stipend.

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