Spellchecking Legislation
According to today’s ODE, there was, uh, a little bit of a mix up with the Senate’s proposed rule changes:
The ASUO Constitution Court, the judicial arm of student government, has rejected rule changes submitted by the Student Senate “due to typographical errors, ambiguities, unintelligible language and inconsistencies with Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR) and the ASUO Constitution.”
The changes would have affected wording within the Green Tape Notebook, student government’s rule book, regarding gifts, donations and fund-raising accounts.
The document submitted to the court contained misspellings and referred to rules the court found do not exist.
Whoops! Well, at least the ASUO Senate will take responsi…
The rules were primarily written by ASUO accountant Lynn Giordano, Hamilton said.
“I don’t want to pass blame on anyone, but these rules weren’t written by Senate,” she said.
No, just approved by the Senate, which surely could’ve checked and made corrections to the rules before approving them.
November 17th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
These kids are the future of politics….enjoy. At least they didn’t blame the Court for not having enough intelligence to understand the infallible Senates proposed rule changes. That would have been my answer…Scapegoating the accountant, that’s just good politics, baby.
November 17th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
“So poorly written as to be unintelligible”
Let me guess… has TGraf’s never-ending search for greener pastures led him to writing ASUO rules? Do they pay more than $12.50 per writing assignment?
November 17th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
You used an apostrophe correctly. Drink.
November 17th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Yeah, you preach from your gilded cage Tyler… you’ll always wish you were back at the Commentator, where apparently knowing how to properly use apostrophe’s makes you hot shit. Sellout.
November 17th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Jesus, who attacked whom here? Take the joke in the spirit in which it was intended, dude. And I’ve spilled far too many words for the OC (many shitty, many very good) to allow you to call me a sellout.
Not that you’re on notice or anything.
November 17th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Kids, don’t make me turn this blog around.
We don’t eat our own here, although we do sometimes fight amongst ourselves.
November 17th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
But Tyler’s so yummy
November 17th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
Haha. This has gotta be one of the funniest ASUO stories ever.
November 18th, 2006 at 2:00 am
“[A]postrophe’s”? This is supposed to be meta, right?
November 18th, 2006 at 11:31 am
And they say it’s hard to get humor across on blogs…
November 20th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
I just realized that I should’ve titled this “Spellchecking from the Bench”
November 21st, 2006 at 8:49 pm
as per the first comment, lets all make sure these kids are NOT the future of politics. I would like to resist such bias and incompetence in future leaders as exhibited by many members of the current Senate… where is Wally Hicks when you need him
November 22nd, 2006 at 8:11 am
Um, the Con Court…. in other words, in total obscurity.
November 26th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
He’ll be able to subvert the system better from there.