Piering’s Senate Top Ten
Outgoing Senator Toby Piering had an apropos top ten list which he read at the 5/30 transitional Student Senate meeting. I asked him for a copy and he helpfully obliged, asking only that I spell check it before posting. So, here’s Piering’s “top ten reasons why my experience this year in the ASUO Student
Senate has been such a joke”:
10. Someone thought it was imperative to tell us every night about a group’s budget, fundraising, and non-event revenue just to release their food holding for 30 dollars worth of pizza.
9. The highlight of my night (along with many other Senators) was trying to predict what time the meeting would end.
8. Actually… the real highlight of the night was the beer that came after the meeting was over.
7. The majority of Senators would vote “yes” on something because they didn’t want to make anyone mad…
6. Like your Daddy’s wallet, the Student Senate always had more money for those groups who overspent, contracted out speakers without paying them, or transferred out thousands of dollars to whatever they felt like.
5. Viewpoint neutrality means having a good spot at the middle of the table to look you friend in the eye when you fully fund their group’s surplus request.
4. We tried to do what the United States, United Nations, and the rest of the world couldn’t… stop Iran from building nuclear weapons.
3. The discussion about what bar to go after the meetings was longer than the one to approve a $20,000 concert.
2. We would rather walk out of a meeting to avoid a discussion than take it off the agenda.And the number one reason why my experience this year in the ASUO Student Senate has been such a joke…
1. All this…and it is only student government
I leave you with this:
“The reason student politics are so vicious is precisely because the
stakes are so small.” – Winston Churchill
