Insurgent Town Hall Meeting
Newly minted ASUO Outreach Coordinator Mike Filippelli announced yesterday that there will be a townhall-style meeting to discuss the Insurgent’s Aroused Jesus issue on Thursday June 1st at 5:30 PM in Columbia 150. I think I’m going to do whatever I can to not be there.
UPDATE: Welp, despite my previous statements I’ve signed up to be on the panel. This was probably a very stupid move on my part, but oh well.
UPDATE x2: Bumping to the top because if it’s just me and Brett Rowlett chatting about sports and hairstyles I’m going to be disappointed (although I suppose he may have superb taste in both.) Also, I’m putting the over/under on total audience members at 35, which may be generous to the under.
May 31st, 2006 at 2:53 pm
C’mon Ian… don’t you want to hear how deeply hurt students were by those naughty, naughty cartoons? Don’t you want to see the look on the face of the Collective when they find out that they will definitively be going to hell? Maybe, just maybe, see the Christian Hegemony learn its lesson, and be nice to everybody for ever and ever? Hell, maybe Dallas Brown will start the revolution.
I am sooo going.
May 31st, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Thursday at 1PM?
No thank you, I actually have stuff to work on.
May 31st, 2006 at 4:02 pm
You won’t be embarrassed if there are any drunken hecklers in the audience, will you, Ian? Heckling your oppenents, of course.
May 31st, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Embarrassed? Hell, I’ll applaud.
May 31st, 2006 at 4:26 pm
Mike Filippelli = Unintelligent Pawn I can’t think of a worse person to be in charge of this panel.
May 31st, 2006 at 5:20 pm
An unintelligent pawn? In the ASUO? Really???? Wow!!!
May 31st, 2006 at 5:47 pm
Meghann: There are too many to count.
May 31st, 2006 at 6:11 pm
This was a great move by former senator Filippelli. And he is more inteligent than you Mike!
May 31st, 2006 at 6:19 pm
Nate I totally agree with you. Moving from a political body where it appears from the outside that he had little clout and even less respect to a different body was totally a smart move. It makes perfect sense to me.
May 31st, 2006 at 11:03 pm
Mike…you really can’t think of a worse person to be running this panel? A couple of easy examples would be Dallas or Wally seeing that they have the knowledge to make up new inturpretations of Southworth.
Miles, I have been wanting to say this for awhile…you lost your election and I am sorry about that but don’t pretend like it was your choice to leave student government. Move on buddy, just move on.
May 31st, 2006 at 11:11 pm
Jon, law is precisely that, interpretation. OSA Campus Organizer Brett Rowlett, David Goward, and Ashley Rees interpreted it to mean that even a discussion of a group’s content was illegal and we all know that isn;t right and required a walkout by the senate.(talk about leadership) So Wally and Dallas are less qualified to interpret law? Give me a break. Wally even admits there were errors in his document so I don’t think you can bash him. In fact, both Dallas and Wally put mike to shame, lol, I would say Mike wrote this post by Jon, but even your talk Jon was above the levels of Fillipelli.
May 31st, 2006 at 11:38 pm
Mike Filippelli…. great ASUO tool, or greatest ASUO tool…watch the Report to find out
May 31st, 2006 at 11:53 pm
Mike- Thanks for your note, but seeing how my interpretation of law was supported by the general counsel who has been doing incidental fee law for now maybe 15-20 years might make my opinion a litte more valid against some others who just want to interpret southworth to fit their needs or agenda
May 31st, 2006 at 11:59 pm
Goward:
In the court of public opinion, what may be legally the safest course may not be the smartest perception-wise. Lucky for you the whole “controversy” was being carried by O’Reilly, who has apparently found tastier bottom feeding elsewhere. Its just sad that thus far, almost everyone looks bad coming out of this…
June 1st, 2006 at 12:00 am
Wrong David, simple discussion without financial reprecussions is not in violation. So remove your mouth from her ass and try again. You can’t win this argument cause you are wrong. Oh yeah, check with President Frohnmayer because the two time Attorney General and Rhodes scholar, oh yeah, and the general counsel’s boss, would disagree with you. He maintains a discussion is perfectly fine. Your just wrong Goward. Go host a party for underage ASUO Insiders or something…
June 1st, 2006 at 12:09 am
While I am glad that my “talk” is above Filippelli, I do know that to try to defund or limit a groups funding based on content is illegal so why should the senators stick around only to argue against Dallas for awhile until they said something potentially incriminating and the resolution got shut down anyways? Think back to comments made about genocide and then realize that the senators made the right decision for themselves and the students they represent- and we only lost out because we didn’t get to sit around and laugh at what asses they would have made of themselves.
I am personally saving the title of greatest ASUO tool for Adam Walsh but that’s another story…
June 1st, 2006 at 12:15 am
http://oregon.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30729830&op=1&view=all&subj=11503102&id=11504495
Note the post walkout party…
June 1st, 2006 at 12:20 am
Folks: this is all very well, but which brave senator will support a grievance accusing the Insurgent collective of TREASON?
Now is the time for true patriots to make a stand!
June 1st, 2006 at 12:22 am
…Dallas Brown… oh wait he is gone
June 1st, 2006 at 12:32 am
and Goward just go eat something and keep your mouth shut, nothing worthwhile ever comes out
June 1st, 2006 at 12:34 am
huh?
June 1st, 2006 at 1:03 am
I miss Dallas Brown’s madness already.
June 1st, 2006 at 1:35 am
Yeah, at least Dallas kept it above the belt and didn’t resort to petty personal attacks or middle school-level sarcasm.
June 1st, 2006 at 12:54 pm
It’s true.
June 1st, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Mike, I’d like to address your comment that “simple discussion without financial repercussions is not in violation.” Also, your statement that President Frohnmayer “maintains a discussion is perfectly fine.” That’s what’s going on tonight. A town hall-style meeting, in which all are welcome to voice their perspectives, had been under discussion before the Senate meeting, and it was announced during the course of the meeting, before the walk-out took place. Don’t try to pretend David Goward or any of the senators who walked out on May 24 are opposed to this– they are among the people who called for it. Goward has expressed that he would even like to attend– but he’ll be at his weekly church meeting instead. That’s right.
What exactly would have taken place on May 24 had the Senate not performed its elaborate coup de grâce against FOX News and the inscrutable Dallas Brown agenda? No one knows. What was the agenda of Dallas Brown, or for that matter Bill O’Reilly, for that night? Again, no one actually knows.
Brown reversed course more than once between the time of his writing the resolution and the time of the Senate meeting, even going so far as to post a comment on this blog claiming he would not introduce the resolution. Yet he did attempt to introduce the resolution. Mic’d up for some unexpected attendees, FOX News. What were they doing there? If you wish to maintain that it would have been impossible, after it was determined early in the course of the meeting that the discussion of the Insurgent in that night’s Senate meeting would be limited to mere “discussion”, for the Senate or some of its members to then violate viewpoint neutrality, then you are either dishonest or hopelessly naïve. Quite likely both. If you wish to maintain that those who remained in the Fir Room on May 24 were somehow prevented from saying whatever they wanted to say, again, you are either dishonest or hopelessly naïve. Quite likely both.
June 1st, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Yeah, why wasn’t Dallas at tonight’s “town hall” meeting? Dance class conflict?
June 1st, 2006 at 10:01 pm
Just in case someone might make assumptions, I want to make clear that the poster “Jon” is not me. I don’t post on this blog right now, but maybe later.
June 1st, 2006 at 10:56 pm
“Jon”: If I gave a damn about you, I would have actually campaigned. But, Japan is more important to me, and you’re not. Say goodnight, Gracie.
Mr. Rosenberg: Didn’t phase me for a minute.
June 2nd, 2006 at 12:20 am
I agree with everything Bryan said. He makes more sense than anything else I’ve read about the walkout. Bravo Bryan! That is all.
June 2nd, 2006 at 12:23 am
I’ll say again, why not save us all the PR stunt and take something off the agenda rather than walkout. I want to personally thank Sen. Hamilton for appoligizing to Sen. Hicks and myself for the lack of professionalism and commonsense seen that evening. Good to see a Student Senate Leader stepping up and taking responsibility for their actions. Good Luck next year Sara…
June 2nd, 2006 at 8:50 am
Sensi bitchfest anyone?
June 2nd, 2006 at 5:59 pm
I feel dirty.