Comments on: Taken Aback http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2008/03/04/taken-aback/ Free Minds, Free Markets, Free Booze Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:37:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Bryan Saxton http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2008/03/04/taken-aback/#comment-97820 Bryan Saxton Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:18:45 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2008/03/04/taken-aback/#comment-97820 I, for one, am outraged that student groups who attended Take Back Campus were allowed to skip out on one PCM meeting. Granted, those PCM meetings are boring as hell and I wouldn't wish them on anyone, but the executive branch granting groups a free pass to skip a PCM meeting to listen to the Executive's politics is a blatant abuse of power by the executive. I, for one, am outraged that student groups who attended Take Back Campus were allowed to skip out on one PCM meeting. Granted, those PCM meetings are boring as hell and I wouldn’t wish them on anyone, but the executive branch granting groups a free pass to skip a PCM meeting to listen to the Executive’s politics is a blatant abuse of power by the executive.

]]> By: Niedermeyer http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2008/03/04/taken-aback/#comment-97804 Niedermeyer Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:17:48 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2008/03/04/taken-aback/#comment-97804 Yup, sounds about right. It's called the scattershot school of politics... name as many bad things as possible and say you're against them. The fact that it was organized within Suite 4 shows how skeezy, political and careerist the current administration is. The fact that it was advertised as a substitute for PCM meetings should be grounds for some kind of grievance, except that PCM is already a tool of the fee-fed ASUO political machine (a mandatory monthly seminar on how to get more money even if you don't need it). All of this illustrates exactly why someone needs to start an official ASUO "opposition party" that won't go away after the election. Students can ignore the fact that the ASUO is a defacto one-party system as long as their anger is directed at the administration/anybody else. Meanwhile the ruling party shuffles in some new faces with the same promises (we're taking back campus!) and the fee goes up and nothing gets done. But no, college students should be focused on issues that they can make a difference on... like Global Warming and Environmental Racism and eliminating every last vestige of inequality from life. Oh children, children, children... Yup, sounds about right. It’s called the scattershot school of politics… name as many bad things as possible and say you’re against them. The fact that it was organized within Suite 4 shows how skeezy, political and careerist the current administration is. The fact that it was advertised as a substitute for PCM meetings should be grounds for some kind of grievance, except that PCM is already a tool of the fee-fed ASUO political machine (a mandatory monthly seminar on how to get more money even if you don’t need it).

All of this illustrates exactly why someone needs to start an official ASUO “opposition party” that won’t go away after the election. Students can ignore the fact that the ASUO is a defacto one-party system as long as their anger is directed at the administration/anybody else. Meanwhile the ruling party shuffles in some new faces with the same promises (we’re taking back campus!) and the fee goes up and nothing gets done. But no, college students should be focused on issues that they can make a difference on… like Global Warming and Environmental Racism and eliminating every last vestige of inequality from life. Oh children, children, children…

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