Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Anger Review
Haha. The Daily Cal isn't feeling so smart about endorsing CalSERVE now, are they?
Lauren Hubbert and Susan Vakil also have their shots at CalSERVE to get in. "We students deserve an ASUC that serves the campus population rather than the selfish political interests of Ms. Joshi and Ms. Quindel." Ooh, bad word choice. It should've been "personal political interests," not "selfish political interests." Oh, well.
Here's a thought though... why didn't anyone say anything before? I haven't heard protests from Hubbert and Vakil in the past, nor from the Daily Cal editorial staff. All parties are responding as if some great big story has just been broken, but it hasn't. Kevin saw it. I saw it. Where did people think the money for all those signs and speeches was coming from?
Jessica Quindel and co. choose a really bad time to put forward a "We need to be autonomous" opinion. No one likes the GA, and no one's going to accomodate it, especially after the whole Prop 54 thing. I hope their ass gets suspended somehow for violating California election law. Maybe if JQ stepped down and left running the GA to someone who actually cares about helping grad students, instead of using the apparatus of the GA to promote her own personal political views, folks'd be a touch more sympathetic. "Without legislative authority, fiscal autonomy and a permanent legal solution clarifying our role as the graduate student government, our mission is consistently undermined." Some mission.
In the letters section:
Tony Zhang: Bad. Doesn't know what he's talking about. Seriously, it's all a bunch of empty words and complaints.
Patrick Yu: GOOD! Someone who knows how to write, and actually payed attention to what the point was. "These fees were paid to the university—not to the assembly's liberal political corps for their own private crusades." And "If they think it's their 'duty' to fight this ballot initiative, they ought to do it without the hard-earned money from my family's pockets and those from others who do not share the ASUC's politics."
Folks who don't mind: Absent. Let's hear some defense, dammit! Let's hear the pro-theft folks defend themselves.
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