Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Yay!
Some crazy foreign mayor was the best dude in the world! And this deserves a Daily Cal op-ed.
Also, Peter Gee has some whining to do. (shocking) Not enough race!
To be perfectly honest, I am pleasantly surprised at Chancellor Robert Birgeneau.
You can feel how painful it was for him to say something good about the administration.
At every single budgeting cycle, we have to go back to the Senate and validate our existence. Without a doubt, various ASUC Senators will try to make last-minute cuts to our budgets on top of the cuts we have already received and we have to pack the room for the whole night to argue about the importance of the work we do.
He forgot to add "just like everybody else."
In Mario Savio's famous speech before the FSM Sit-in he said, "There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" This quote gives us a great metaphor for UC Berkeley, about how it's just a giant machine that needs to be fixed.
I don't think Peter's interpreting it right. I don't think he was saying "let's fix the machine," he was saying "let's stop the machine." Basically, the machine had to be destroyed by preventing it from working at all. It's sort of one of those "OMG Mario Savio was sooooo great, so if I quote him, I'll totally be seen as right" quotes.
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