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Thursday, July 31, 2003
The Squelch is gearing up for the first issue of the year, but is running a little low on material. If you're at all funny, send material to submit@squelched.com.Email This
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Tuesday, July 29, 2003
The Budget finally passed today, and is set for signing by the Governor, barring last minute theatrics. It's unclear to me what the final numbers of the cut were. Not a good sign that accounts of the Budget single out 'Higher Education' as receiving a large portion of the cuts. Time to rethink our lobbying efforts.
Schools were largely spared from deep cuts, but money for maintenance, textbooks and summer schools was slashed. The University of California and California State University systems face big hits this year.Schools were spared from deep cuts in the state budget. Big cuts in local budgets remain.Email This Post!
I'm sure that OSL Greek Advisor Durein cringes every time he reads Columnist Guthrie's work. Here you spend half a career trying to convince the world that the Frat Boy stereotype of the drunk, shallow 'playa' is a media myth, and someone like Mr. Guthrie comes along. A column trying to convince girls to have more sex with guys? Trying to shoehorn it into 'Sexual Liberation' instead of a transparent ploy to get more ladies? Not a very high opinion of women...
I know this much because they call us sluts as well, and it's almost always because we're hooking up with another girl instead of them. Here's Mr. Guthrie's Xanga Journal. (Courtesy of Calstuff Correspondant AMA.) Mr. Guthrie on Asians: It's a frat...so unplug the rice cooker, put RISK away, stop watching Dragon Ball Z & Family Guy and hook up with some girls for a changedMr. Guthrie on Berkeley's female population: When you go to a bar around Berkeley you might run into a few per night, and a good amount of them are only hot in contrast to the dispersion of beasts throughout the place.Mr. Guthrie on the Overweight: In one of the bars I stepped on some fat bitch's foot and she yells "you stepped on all five of my toes!". Fuckin fat slut...if she didn't take up so much space I wouldn't have had so much trouble getting by her size 15 waist, and her five fat ass toes wouldn't have gotten stepped on. So anyway some fat dude she's with says "want me to step on all five of his?" I was already drunk and in belligerence mode so before he could even try I hit him upside the head and told him to bring it. He barely even said shit back. I don't even want to know how much of a pussy he felt like later that night when he was sitting around eating his cheese fries thinking about how he got punked by a dude who probably weighed 60 pounds less than him. Whatever though he asked for it.Mr. Guthrie and senses of humor: Email This Post!
The recent Bank Robbery suspect shot and killed by police turns out to be a recent Berkeley graduate-- and a pillar of the African-American Community at Cal. He lived in Afro House, graduated with a degree in African-American Studies, and ran a law clinic.
Fowler said Givens was a member of the Screen Actors Guild and had dabbled in acting. He was interested in the law and had run a prepaid legal services business that helped those in need of legal help.Good catch by the Chron.Email This Post! Sunday, July 27, 2003
Blogger Hovannes scored with Matt Drudge. His Patriot article on the study of what makes conservatives tick landed a link on the Drudge Report. He also appeared on Scarborough Country on MSNBC, a deceitful, bias, slightly informative show I do not watch anymore.
The article calls for the university to apologize for said study, corroborating Kevin's prediction below. From the article: One of the researchers, assistance professor Jack Glaser, went on to attribute the conservative lack of “integrative complexity” to current president George W. Bush, citing a statement he made in 2002 to a British reporter that, “My job isn’t a nuisance.” Many are seeing this comparison... as another attempt by the university to push a liberal agenda... The Bay Area Chairman of the California College Republicans Amaury Gallais stated, “This release is a political tool by the university. No conservative values are respected, only criticized.” Email This Post!
BCR won the 'College Republican Chapter of the Year' award at the College Republican National Convention. It featured Karl Rove being discomfited by protestors.
The University of California at Berkeley contingent of College Republicans was recognized yesterday as the chapter of the year. It has 500 members.500? Really? 500 on a list or 500 who come to meetings? I suspect the former. What defines success, here? I can think of two basic rubrics. The first is energy: counter-protesting ISO things, putting on bake sales, publishing Conservative newspapers, etc. The sort of stuff that lands you on Fox News. The second is organization: numbers, funding, lack of internal struggles, muscle in the student government and with the University. It's possible to have one without the other. Although BCR has both. What's the next step for our plucky Republicans? I'd argue it's moving against the Administration. For years the Administration has been essentially an ally of the Republicans. The Republicans used the Administration to crack down on Progressive excess--- book burning or newspaper theft. While the Admin never cracked down to the level they wanted, there'd be some sort of investigation or press release from the Chancellor. In other words, the Administration was essentially on their side in the goal of keeping order on Sproul and suppressing Progressives, not to mention protecting Republicans from mobs. BCR always felt the Administration was essentially Leftist, but their kind of Leftists. But now the Republicans can protect themselves just fine, and being a countering presence on Sproul isn't the overwhelming goal it once was.. BCR has successfully landed that beachhead. At the same time, the University has been pissing off Republicans. Trumpeting that 'Stalin = Conservative' study really upset numerous Republicans. Not only did the Administration put it on the main webpage, but issued a long press release praising it-- even making it seem more anti-Conservative then the authors thought supportable! There's also been some minor slights related to press coverage, and UC passing that politics in the classroom resolution recently. Add to this the long-simmering goal of attacking Progressive thought in classrooms and fighting massive fee increases, and BCR has a lot of incentive to make trouble for the University this year. It'd be interesting. Somewhere, Laura Nader woke up in a cold sweat without quite knowing why.Email This Post!
Add Oracle CEO Larry Ellison to the list of famous people who attended Cal and never graduated.
He also went to the University of Chicago, and in the '60s attended the University of California, Berkeley. But he never graduated from college, a fact Ellison recently joked about ``holding me back.''Philip K. Dick is the other famous person who never graduated... to my memory.Email This Post! Saturday, July 26, 2003
A suspected robber was shot and killed by police yesterday near Berkeley. It happened around 2200 Haste. (Not Hearst)Email This
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Thursday, July 24, 2003
**Breaking**
A group of UC students led by UCSA and ASUC Senator Kashmiri have filed suit against the UC Regents for breach of contract-- in this case, raising student fees only days before classes were scheduled to start. The students claim that the Regents breached contracts for the price of spring semester and summer term when UC schools raised spring and summer tuition after students had already registered and been billed for classes. Those last-minute increases did not provide enough notice, leaving students and families without enough time to plan for them.They're seeking a reduction in fees to the level originally agreed on, an apology, and a refund. Plaintiff students seek injunctive, declaratory, and monetary relief, in the form of a preliminary and permanent injunction prohibiting the Regents from charging professional degree fees higher than the amount set at the time professional students first enrolled, a declaration that the defendants have breached their contracts with the students (both their promise not to raise professional degree fees during the term of enrollment and their promise not to raise fees for any term after a student has registered and been billed for the term), and compensatory damages in the form of a refund to all students who have paid the improperly increased fees.It's unclear to me what the refund text means. Do they mean a total refund of all fees paid for the summer, or just the extra amount the fees were raised to? Email This Post!
Kevin's Investigative Desk:
Oh Fudge: Why doesn't the Daily Cal do some investigative reporting on Cleary? It's covered in scaffolding at the moment. Word on the street is that another thing went horribly wrong with it. In January part of the first floor was flooded in ankle deep water. Considering that it's a new building and was lauded for its design at the time-- and it's architect (Jackie Bernier) went on to design other things here. Ask U Penn Law student Tony Falcone.. he'll probably know. Assigned to: Alicia Wittmeyer, so she doesn't have to do newsbriefs, which look really unexciting. Our Last Hope: What's up with this Hate Crimes Committee that OSL set up? Who's on it? (IE: any Muslim or Sikh students?) Is it actually going to do anything? Is it just a way for the Administration to co-op some of the usual dissidents? Assigned to: Henry Lopez The Old Soldier: Whither Hoku Jeffrey? This is the first year he's not a Senator, and it's unclear what BAMN will be doing this year. They don't have the Supreme Court Case, and they're not that involved in the CRENO fights. Maybe it's time to answer the question of what year he is, once and for all. Assigned to: Either someone who's been around forever or some entirely new writer. Good way to learn local politics!Email This Post! Wednesday, July 23, 2003
Berkeley is trumpeting this recently released survey on Political Conservatism as definitive and scientific research. What a nice way to avoid an ideological confrontation with Conservatism, by labeling it as a psychological reaction of fear and avoidance towards change! It's a fun way to lump together all aspects of the right-wing along a continuum of fear and intolerance.
Disparate conservatives share a resistance to change and acceptance of inequality, the authors said. Hitler, Mussolini, and former President Ronald Reagan were individuals, but all were right-wing conservatives because they preached a return to an idealized past and condoned inequality in some form. Talk host Rush Limbaugh can be described the same way.In other words, President Reagan and his cronies aren't separated by any inherent ideology from Hitler-- just in degrees of fear. It's a nice opportunity to even relabel Stalin as 'Conservative' The researchers conceded cases of left-wing ideologues, such as Stalin, Khrushchev or Castro, who, once in power, steadfastly resisted change, allegedly in the name of egalitarianism.Stalin the Conservative? He created the Soviet system, tearing down the Leninist structure for one based on a personality cult, huge movements in industrialization and agriculture, and killed countless members of the old regime. If this is his defense of the status quo, I'd hate to see Stalin doing anything to change it. The authors could've sought credibility in a study this massive and controversial by including a self-described Conservative. Not really. Here's Jack Glaser's home page. Here's John Jost's. Here's Kuglianski's. Any attempt to study Conservativism without an Economic lens is bunk, anyhow.Email This Post! Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Anyone looking for inspiration about the future of Berkeley in these remarkably bleak times should take a look at the New Century Plan. It's a collection of 'if we could' designs for campus, tearing down bad sight lines and replacing ugly pavement with beautiful tile. The pictures are of some utopian campus, green and almost opulent. My personal favorite is this vision of Evans being replaced by two buildings similar to the Bancroft Library. This vision of the area around Sather Gate being opened up is nice as well, although there doesn't seem to be much room for trees in their grand vision of the future.
Academic Senate Student Representative Lia Kraemer suggested an excellent Senior Class Gift idea: reworking the area in front of Dwinelle. It's one of the most popular places on campus yet has ugly pavement and dumpy planters surrounded by ugly benches. There's plenty of room to open the area up, add some thought-out places to sit, and make it greener. Email This Post!
Tsk tsk to Columnist Guthrie for not mentioning that he got his column idea from a recent series of articles on 'Metrosexuals.' IE, accessorizing men. Compare the two. NYtimes:
BY his own admission, 30-year-old Karru Martinson is not what you'd call a manly man. He uses a $40 face cream, wears Bruno Magli shoes and custom-tailored shirts. His hair is always just so, thanks to three brands of shampoo and the precise application of three hair grooming products: Textureline Smoothing Serum, got2b styling glue and Suave Rave hairspray.From the Column: We wash our faces with extra-gentle cleansers that replenish moisture as they remove impurities, shave with honey-mango-scented shave cream, use essential oils imported from Australia to keep our skin soft, apply under-eye treatment to relieve the puffiness left from sleeping … it goes on and on. I find some comfort in knowing I live with other guys who also go through similar routines.He's in Pi Kappa Phi, incidentally. I never knew it was the prettiest Frat around. Email This Post! Monday, July 21, 2003
Senator Kashmiri may have to resign his post due to the fee increases.
Mo Kashmiri, a third-year student at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, may not be returning to school next month.You have to be a student to serve as a Senator. Here's the bylaw: No person may run for ASUC officer or act in the capacity thereof who is not a student as defined here and in the ASUC Constitution, unless he/she meets the qualifications for Special Status as defined in Article 1.If Senator Kashmiri drops out, the next Senator would be DAAP member Yvette Falarca (sp?) Email This Post!
Newsweek does a piece on the financial disaster at Berkeley. It's not very well written. For one thing, it gives the impression that the Regents' move falls totally on Berkeley, instead of being shared by the many many students in the UC system. Unless you already know, it's unclear that the fee raises are for everyone, not just Cal.
The budget woes ate away at the academic hierarchy—affecting the public schools, then community colleges, then the Cal State system. And now, even Berkeley. The stress was clear last week at a San Francisco meeting of the UC Board of Regents, which voted to raise student fees 25 percent (to an average of $5,247 annually for undergraduates)—a measure UC president Richard Atkinson reluctantly supported as a last resort.It also reduces the multitude of areas the cuts affect to two areas: faculty brain drain and minority enrollment. Near the top of everyone’s list of concerns at Berkeley is ensuring a diverse campus. Cutbacks in funds for minority recruiting could make it harder to reach inner-city students, says Berkeley’s chancellor, Robert Berdahl.This is the major concern in a massive budget struggle? I could list a dozen before reaching reduced funding for minority recruitment. After all, any effect that reduced funding has for a marginally productive program will be swamped by the gigantic impact that a 25% fee increase will cause. If Chancellor Berdahl is so concerned about a diverse campus, he would be better off concentrating on holding on to the lower to middle class ones he already has, or on funding programs that allow minority students to attend. Building outreach programs to the inner-city while ignoring the effects of a huge fee increase is not productive. The faculty problem, while a real issue, is more of a long-term concern then an immediate one. No, the immediate issue is the large number of students who received a massive fee increase only a little more then a month before school starts. They're boned. And it doesn't sound like the University is thinking of creative ways-- or any ways!-- to keep them enrolled. Shouldn't this be a vital and pressing issue for the Administration? Do they even have figures on what the dropout rate will be due to this new fee increase? I'm not certain that there are avenues out there to stop student flight, but it's criminal not to be looking into it. (Link via Anthony Paganini) Email This Post! Wednesday, July 16, 2003
Another prominent Alum left off the CAA's 'Prominent Alumni' list.
And another. In 1992, Michoacan Mexico native and University of California/Berkeley grad Amador Bustos launched Z-Spanish Radio Network. He turned it into the largest Hispanic-owned satellite radio network in the U.S., with 32 owned and operated stations and 42 affiliates. Bustos credits Syndicated Communications, a Maryland-based venture partners' group, for his success. "It's capital one can't get anywhere else -- dreams and start up business plans aren't bankable," Bustos observes. In 2002, he merged his $475 million firm with Entravision, Communications Corp, which has a market cap of $1.5 billionEmail This Post!
Nick Rizzo -- the Berkeley High Schooler who famously took Alan Ross's Poli Sci 179 class and was often mocked for his trouble -- gets his ego massaged in this food review.Email This
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***Breaking***
The Regents just voted to raise student fees by up to 30%. This is the plan that would raise fees by 25% right away, with discretion given to President Atkinson to raise fees an additional 5%. The vote was actually pretty close -- 5-4. If I was an enterprising young Student Regent, it might be worth exploring a resolution that would trigger a fee reduction when the budget situation improves. This would be fairly easy right now -- many Regents want to demonstrate that this is out of absolute necessity, not for the sheer joy of squeezing students. No one wants to be the bad guy. So a resolution declaring an automatic fee decrease back to pre-crisis levels could pass. This could prevent a possible ratchet effect when the budget situation does improve -- the pressure to cut at some unspecified future date is higher then it'll ever be. It's also possible that this resolution already exists and I have no knowledge of it.Email This Post!
Berkeley hate crimes more then doubled from 2001 to 2002. A Police Spokeswoman gives the completely unconvincing explanation of 'We're just more attuned to them now.'
Although Alameda County's total number of hate crime incidents dropped from 63 in 2001 to 56 in 2002, Berkeley reported an increase from 11 to 29. And San Francisco saw its number of hate crime events rise from 168 to 184.This is more plausible if Berkeley was seeing a small increase as opposed to a small decrease statewide. It'd also be more plausible if general crime in Berkeley hadn't also risen much more then the state average, making it more likely this is part of a general increase in crimes. It'd certainly be more plausible if hate crime awareness hadn't also risen statewide. We all became more aware of hate crimes in the post September 11th period, and Berkeley had already been more aware then most. And yet Hate Crimes still dropped in Alameda-- heck, they dropped more then average in Alameda County, to make up for the big increase in Berkeley. It includes all of Oakland, San Leandro, and parts south, and yet this one town accounted for about half of total Hate Crime reports. Minimizing the importance of Hate Crimes minimizes the importance of a potential flash point for public anger over a rising crime rate. It's normal, after all, to expect more hate crimes when Berkeley is innundated with racist trash who also mug and vandalize. Tell me straightfaced that whoever spraypainted that swastika on the Afro-House left town without doing anything else illegal. Email This Post! Tuesday, July 15, 2003
With SARS more or less a non-problem, UCB has lifted SARS restrictions. Of course, whatever damage was caused by the PR mess surrounding them remains.
Some interesting lessons were learned about Infection, though. This summer a few rooms at the Clark Kerr Campus were set aside in case they were needed for students with SARS symptoms. There was no need for the rooms to be used for SARS, but when a visiting student developed chicken pox, housing officials used the case to test the rooms and new infectious disease protocols.Email This Post! Sunday, July 13, 2003
I'm on the verge of replacing my ancient Nokia with a brand new Motorola 720. Happy Birthday to me on August 13th!
The sad and Cal-related aspect of this is that there don't appear to be any Polyphonic Cal ring tones. There IS a monophonic one-- Fight for California. (The link goes to the Cal Band's MP3 version.) That means it's time to make some Polyphonic Cal fight songs. I always thought that Stanfurd Jonah or Big C would be superior ring tones anyway. Sons of California might be nice too. Unfortunately, I don't know how to make these ring tones. I see two options. The first is to directly use a music program to create a Polyphonic version of these songs. This would require both knowledge of a music program and musical talent. I'm short on both accounts. The second option is find programs that'll convert MP3 versions of these songs to Polyphonic versions. This is expensive, and I strongly suspect will produce a weird-sounding mishmash of a song. If anyone has the talent to accomplish this, think of the everlasting fame you'd get. And Rally Comm, how can you in good conscience not pursue this project once you know it's possible? Incidentally, the Band has released a new CD.Email This Post!
Here's UCSD's abortion of a humor magazine-- Jizzlam. (Takes awhile to load). No fewer then 16 pages of awful, awful attempts at humor devolving quickly into outright reliance on simpleminded bigotry. As Mr. Loker commented, 'We could just keep getting more offensive to make up for the fact that we're not funny at all!'
Email This Post! Saturday, July 12, 2003
It's odd to learn of awards you've won by reading the paper. Bay Area College Newspaper Association? What?Email This
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Mr. Connerly has been in the news a whole lot lately, perhaps whipped into a fury by the outcome of the Supreme Court Affirmative Action case. Besides CRENO, he's taking on Michigan and now ethnically separate orientations and graduations.
According to the proposal, UC cannot sponsor "race restrictive" events. If it is passed, no university money will finance any race-, ethnicity- or sexual orientation-targeted activities.I've always wondered about minority graduations. They're not a learning experience; by definition, this is the formal end of undergraduate University learning. Certainly on the face of it it creates an unimpressive display of racial dislike. The big commencement is almost entirely white and asian; it also gets all the press and perks. The other graduations seem ghettoized by comparison. Smaller. Less flashy. On the other hand, this arrangement works. Minority students enjoy the community, and not being the conspiciously smaller group whose last name the speaker stumbles over. The relatives, who Graduation is for, seem to enjoy it just fine. The big Commencement is still open for everybody who wants to attend. If the complaint is that undergrads should learn a lesson in tolerance, it seems a little late for social engineering.Email This Post!
Calstuff seeks new writers! If you're interested in being our Sports or Art Correspondant, e-mail me... And as always, I'm looking for news correspondants.Email This
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Thursday, July 10, 2003
Word is that Rally Committee is trying to raise $16,000 to repair the platform that the Cannon sits on, overlooking Memorial Stadium. If you want to donate, e-mail here.
Not that I think any of you will, considering I've never seen a dime from any of you.Email This Post! Wednesday, July 09, 2003
Patriot EIC Sexton is currently writing for the Washington Times
UC looks to suspend policy precluding politics in classroomEmail This Post! Tuesday, July 08, 2003
Kevin Deenihan, AMERICAN FIRE HERO.
UC Berkeley fraternity Alpha Delta Phi was the target of a possible arson or malicious fire early Sunday morning, police said.News I can use! The bicycle was leaning against our wooden house, which was the main cause for concern... otherwise this was a routine dumpster fire. Email This Post! Sunday, July 06, 2003
Fire at ADPhi
Crime blotter hit home last night, as 2422 Prospect was the site of suspected arson. I was woken up at 2 AM by Frat Bro Mark, who was knocking on doors asking 'If anyone had a fire extinguisher.' As the only person with enough inherent fear of death to keep one handy, I gave it to him and followed him outside. There, our dumpster was billowing smoke. While interesting, this wasn't a major concern. Dumpster fires happen. After some ineffectual Frat Boy fire fighting with too-small extinguishers and water, the fire department rolled up. But what was scary was that there was a second fire. At the bottom of the fire escape to the house, someone had lit the handlebar rubber of a bike chained to the (wood) stairway. This is not visible from the street: it's in the backyard, well away from places anyone could walk by normally and flick a cigarette butt into, etc. Also, lighting rubber is not easy business. Lighter fluid was probably used. Thankfully, alert neighbors across the way at DU came by with another fire extinguisher and put it out. As we're not feuding with anyone right now, chances are this was an arson of opportunity: someone entered the back yard, snagged some left-out lighter fluid from the grill, and decided to play. There's also new graffiti on the wall of our neighbor, Pi Kapp, so busy night. We reported it to the police, who took it down politely and have no leads. Crime: it comes home.Email This Post! Friday, July 04, 2003
Not to bring back bad memories.. but here's a profile of ex-coach Holmoe from the Salt Lake Tribune. Email This
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Thursday, July 03, 2003
Yet more budget cuts may be coming.. assuming the University gets any money at all. The grimmest news is at least $80 million in additional cuts to UC, with possible cuts up to $300 million if certain Republicans get their way.
Already, both houses of the Legislature have agreed on $80 million in additional cuts to UC, and there are Republican proposals to cut several hundred million dollars more from the University.This is all assuming that the State decides on a budget before UC employees stop getting paid. The decision to be made is triage-- cutting enrollment, raising fees, or cutting educational quality. Students would naturally favor the first one. Heck, cutting enrollment actually works great for us-- makes the University more selective, raising its overall IQ. President Atkinson is leaning towards that one. Here's the fees scenario. To close the rest of the gap, mandatory systemwide student fees would be increased 25 percent above the current fee level, which reflects the $405 annualized increase that was adopted beginning with the spring 2003 term. For resident undergraduates, the additional 25 percent would raise fees $960, or $165 more than the $795 increase that was assumed in the Governor’s Budget. Mandatory systemwide fees for resident undergraduates would total $4,794 per year. Graduate and professional school fees also would be raised 25 percent.Email This Post! Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Comments got screwed up. I don't know why they say 'poseuers.' They're supposed to say '(!num) Little Bears said'
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New incoming student Regent-- Matt Murray. He gets to enter office at the point of the largest budget crisis in decades, if not ever.
Anyone honestly analyzing the Student Regent has to concede that he has only two powers-- to vote, and to convince others how to vote. One vote not being too important, convincing other Regents is the only thing the Student Regent can do that might actually make a difference. That's why Mr. Murray's accurate but too-modest rejection of being the 'student representative' is too quick! "I want to be on equal footing with the regents," he says. "I wasn't elected by the 180,000 students in the UC system so I don't pretend to think of myself as the student representative bringing the student perspective—it's easy for the other regents to disregard your opinion that way."Is it really easier to write off some random underage appointee then the closest thing to a student voice that there is? Of course Mr. Murray isn't our duly elected representative, but it might give him more bargaining weight if it looks like a million students are behind him... and it's in our best interest to do so. But boy, does Senator Kashmiri appear arrogant when he lectures Mr. Murray "Matt's worked with the ACLU, but he lacks the ties to the campus student groups that Dexter has," Kashmiri said. "He will need the help of these communities to be a successful student regent."Matt co-founded the Berkeley ACLU, not 'worked with it.' And the euphemistic 'campus student groups' and 'communities' are the collection of highly Progressive groups that CalSERVE is affiliated with. Representative of students they are not! And I have little faith in their lobbying abilities, considering what an overall mess the last regents protest was. Heck, considering that the Regents are Democratic-majority and mostly Liberal, the fact that they've become a hyper-paranoid and secretive group flitting between protest-free campuses does not speak well of their relationship with and respect for students. Considering that the Progressive groups that control our lobbying efforts view their job as harassment and opposition, this is not a surprise. We might be better off cultivating a relationship not primarily controlled by students shouting into a mic at ever-decreasing public comment times. Mr. Henchman contributed to this report.Email This Post! |
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