The Berkeley College Republicans are seething at the Office of Student Life. They had planned to commemorate 9.11 with some flag-waving and patriotism, so had filled out all the forms well in advance to reserve Sproul on Thursday. At the last minute, OSL turned around and said, in effect, 'We're not giving it to you because it's an important anniversary. We're giving it to the ASUC.' So now the Republicans are complaining about the blatant favoritism towards Progressives inherent in giving our ASUC Executives the rights to Sproul on 9.11.

It will be pretty stupid if a 9.11 memorial is used to denounce Prop 54. But in general, I'd be a lot happier if Student Groups weren't given exclusive rights to Sproul on important national anniversaries. BCR might throw a non-political event this year, but who knows what the ISO would put together on 9.11.04? The best system has to be having the Administration run an all-inclusive event with all student groups participating, or give it to the closest thing students have to an elected representative. If that happens to be CalSERVE this year, so be it. It was Student Action last year, and everything worked out fine. Email This Post!