I’ll be honest, I would like to see the Rec Center as a separate fee that can be listed on our account summary. This would help out in keeping bureaucracy to a minimum, would streamline the process of funding for the rec center, and would keep the center in check, similar to the Health Center as of current.

PLUS, as an extra added benefit, that’s one less contract or service that needs to be funded by the Incidental Fee and the PFC, taking responsibility off of them.

Ebner got the right idea, Kinsey got the right idea. GULLEY got the absolute wrong idea.

It would have been somewhat intelligent…well, that’s not usually a word with which I like to describe the ASUO Executive EVER, but for lack of something better…it would have been somewhat ‘intelligent’ had they thought out this office expansion last year when the flooding of the EMU cost thousands in repairs. Remember the yellow tape outside Suite 4? It was being used while contractors rebuilt that little cubby of a receptionist’s desk, the area that would likely be the easiest to tear down if some lunatic accepted the expansion. It’s fuck’n student politics for Dog’s sake. Move ‘em to a matroom in the rec. center.

Oh, and Health Center cost increases are well below typical PFC levels… that much was made clear at the meeting. I was there last a year ago, and despite construction the service was good.

In all seriousness, I am nearly always quite disappointed by the lack of preparedness done by the Senators. They don’t know the issues, they haven’t done research…most of their arguments aren’t statements of likely real world results. They just argue possibilities, without any thought as to what is more likely to occur.

For example, did anyone on the Senate ask the Health Center if they felt service had suffered because of the shift to University management from the ASUO? I feel that would have been a good question to ask - and to ask before Wednesday night.

Oh well. It’s just $12m.