Thursday, October 23, 2003
They call him Mr. Freeze
Oh, that Paul LaFata. Always following these queer things called "rules."
“While our rules are super-important, student groups don’t give a damn. They just want their money,” said APPLE Senator Misha Leybovich.
So it's okay to circumvent the rules... I guess.
“Ideally it wasn’t a good idea to waive the by-laws, but it was really important for us to conduct business and support our student groups,” said CalSERVE Senator Bahar Khanjari. “That is what we were elected to do.”
Wow. What a CalSERVE thing to do. Try this alternative. "Ideally, it wasn't a good idea to ignore the constitutional ammendments and re-enslave all the blacks, but it was really important for us to improve the economy. That's what we were elected to do."
The rules aren't much use if the people subject to those rules get to change them whenever they want. Part of being elected to an office is saying "elect me because I will do the most I can with the powers I'm granted by the rules structure." You choose who to vote for based on the rules they would be restricted by. If someone ran under the platform of "I will spend all of the ASUC's money on handing out free shiny metal tubes on Sproul all year long" and that was something you support, you still wouldn't vote for her if the rules wouldn't allow her to do so.
Point: The rules are an integral part of "what we were elected to do."
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