Comments on: When In Doubt, Create Another Committee http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/10/17/when-in-doubt-create-another-committee/ Free Minds, Free Markets, Free Booze Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:09:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Jan http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/10/17/when-in-doubt-create-another-committee/#comment-1725 Jan Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:35:25 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/10/17/when-in-doubt-create-another-committee/#comment-1725 Back when the PFC wasn't violating the U.S. Constitution, it pretty much approached the mission-and-goals meetings as a rubber stamp, too. If memory serves, those meetings pretty much consisted of the late Bruce Miller trying to convince Joy Nair that the Hawaii club should be defunded because it hadn't educated any students on the actual geographical location of Hawaii (true story). Back when the PFC wasn’t violating the U.S. Constitution, it pretty much approached the mission-and-goals meetings as a rubber stamp, too. If memory serves, those meetings pretty much consisted of the late Bruce Miller trying to convince Joy Nair that the Hawaii club should be defunded because it hadn’t educated any students on the actual geographical location of Hawaii (true story).

]]> By: Timothy http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/10/17/when-in-doubt-create-another-committee/#comment-1724 Timothy Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:13:35 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/10/17/when-in-doubt-create-another-committee/#comment-1724 "We don't decide funding, but we do decide if you're allowed to ask for funding." Right. Because Petkun made this thing up, I believe that the intentions behind it are good, but as usual his ideas seem to fall a little short in practice. “We don’t decide funding, but we do decide if you’re allowed to ask for funding.”

Right.

Because Petkun made this thing up, I believe that the intentions behind it are good, but as usual his ideas seem to fall a little short in practice.

]]> By: Danimal http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/10/17/when-in-doubt-create-another-committee/#comment-1723 Danimal Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:04:25 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/10/17/when-in-doubt-create-another-committee/#comment-1723 I wonder how Goward was able to pin it down to 98.9%. The double-talk Goward offers to suggest that the RRC does not make funding decisions is completely unconvincing. If this process is used to weasel out of Southworth, the weaseling won't get far -- a denial of access to the funding process is functionally identical to a denial of funding. Duh. Southworth binds the whole process; adding a step to that process changes nothing. I wonder how Goward was able to pin it down to 98.9%.

The double-talk Goward offers to suggest that the RRC does not make funding decisions is completely unconvincing. If this process is used to weasel out of Southworth, the weaseling won’t get far — a denial of access to the funding process is functionally identical to a denial of funding. Duh. Southworth binds the whole process; adding a step to that process changes nothing.

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