Mod note: link fixed, superfluous post removed.

So when the ASUO doesn’t increase the fee by 7%, try to defund the Commentator, or have any convicted felons within its ranks, while relatively this is a good thing, we must not lose perspective on how much the I-Fee raises the barriers to college entry and what a corrupt, incompetent mess the entire association is.

Tim, take a look at the campus “crime” statistics and you’ll realize the only crime they can come up with is MIP. There is no reason we even need DPS with the EPD right there anyway.

Ted: That’s not a bad perspective, really. And hey, there’s a lot of stuff I’m for, just not when it comes to student government. That I’m mostly just against. I’m for them giving all the money back, and I’m for them concentrating on volunteer efforts and I’m for them trying to get DPS and the University Admin to stop being assholes (by maybe eliminating about 2/3 of the conduct code, and having DPS focus on real problems rather than the BS they focus on now), but beyond that there’s really not much.

T: joking? wie bitte?

DeLancie: Identity politics have come a long way since the civil rights movement… and not all for the better.

and T…when people say that race is “not an issue worth disscusing” its not becasue that person does not value cultural diversity. But cultural diversity is not just about having a certain precentage of “minorities” (who sara hates I guess) go to our school. In a way that makes them just a tool of the Universities to look good in order to get more funding. Cultural Diversity is about have people with different backgrounds, schemas, experiences, that have all shaped his/her thoughts and views on the world. Some of this is becasue I have a different color skin that someone else. But this is also about location of home, age, economic status, type of high school one attended, etc. I think the point is lets not always result to making race the biggest issue becasue then it will continue to divide us. I thought the point was to stand hand in hand, no segregation, not “equal but seperate”. I hope that this years elections can be about what will make UofO better for all students, or a majority of students. The minority can only function within a majority. Without a majority the minority is the majority….does someone want all of the majority dead…i mean seriously

Some of it worked, some of it didn’t, but the argument is worth making. It’s important, however, to remain cynical about the outcomes because 1) Almost everyone who runs for any office as anything other than a joke is an idiot* and 2) Next year’s idiots will not pay attention to anything the previous idiots did, meaning that there’s not even some sort of moron constant…it’s a Retard Field that’s constantly in flux.

*There are, of course, some notable exceptions and those of you out there reading this blog who are one of them know it already.

I’m just in it because of my friends. Everyone else can suck my toejam.

That’s a true statement, but misses by half: if you think anything, at all, will make a difference in the election you’re wrong.

Because it works.

“Aren’t there real issues worth discussing? Is this a scare tactic to keep people out of the ASUO process?” You’re joking, right?

Does anyone who knows Sara really think that she hates minorities? Why is there always someone in ASUO politics that tries to use race and ethnicity to divide people? Aren’t there real issues worth discussing? Is this a scare tactic to keep people out of the ASUO process? Does anyone else share my fondness for rhetorical questions?

Also, unless you have access to the IPs, dude, don’t call people out..

And since it has been confirmed that Jared will not run for a second term, I guess that means that Hamilton/Papaillou (sp?) are next. I mean, Sara…now SHE is smokin’ (and not tokin’).