Tuesday, March 29, 2005
BUE time!
It's once again time for "Beetle's Uninformed Endorsements"!
Executive Vice President!!!
Just like last year, I don't really know what the executive vice president is supposed to do. And the BUE goes to...
Ben Narodick
His name is undeniably the funniest to say. He also wants the ASUC to do less stuff, which is definitely a plus.
As far as the SA and CS candidates go... uh... um... It's like there's two completely blank pieces of paper, and you're trying to pick the better one. *sigh*
Anil Daryani: He gets the nod because he does have an actual goal. You have to go to the bottom of his horribly formatted list (look, guys, it's clear you're making bullet-type points with "Putting Students First," and it just looks ridiculous for you to have those starting in mid-line and carrying over between lines and so forth.) he says:
"Putting Students First means making Senate legislation more transparent by making minutes and meetings available through public mediums like asuc.org and CalTV."
He also wants to check up on senators to make sure campaign promises are met, which is an amazing duty of the EVP. (I recall the same claim being made last year)
Camille Pannu comes next, because, if you look at her webpage titled "Justine Lazaro for President #20" (nice job) you'll see that she has the endorsement of:
"Paul Gordon, Founding Member, Women Studies Student"
Now, perhaps that means Paul Gordon is a founding member of CalSERVE, and is also a women's studies student, but to me it reads like he's the founder of Women Studies Student, which is a sentence that describes a woman studying a student.
Billy Wang: This year I'm torn, but I decided that BEARS-United, while a horrible enemy, still deserves higher respect than DAAP.
"It seems that there's a general lack of student awareness of what the ASUC does. We're here to protect them."
Really? What are you protecting us from? The only thing you seem to do is take money from us. If you really cared for us, you'd try to give that money back to us. I can't help but get the feeling that Wang just wants to be EVP so he can chair over the SA folks he doesn't like.
Ronald Cruz: Finally, the "Shakedown the ASUC" party puts brand a new face, Ronald Cruz, forward.
"Cruz plans to push the ASUC to encourage intelligent discussion of "real issues" like the Iraqi occupation..."
Uh... while that is a "real issue," it's not really one for Cal's student government.
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