Saturday, February 03, 2007
I want my resume boosted!
So, the ASUC released the minutes from their Jan. 24 meeting. A few things of interest:
Jeff Manassero wants "a transcript of student leaders to accompany their academic transcript," in order to codify the resume-whoring which motivates so much of the ASUC.
Vivienne Nguyen goes to great lengths in order to demonstrate that she is an idiot, during Jessica Wren's confirmation.
Mr. Wasserman said asked if him making a statement such as "I think that X party violated the Constitution" meant that he was biased against the party, or that he felt that the party broke the rules. Ms. Nguyen said she wasn't sure where he was going with the question, because that had nothing to do with the diagram or the comment that went with it. The diagram is here. See if you think David Wasserman's question had anything to do with it. Another choice quote:
Mr. Rizzo asked if she was biased against Student Action. Ms. Wren said she wasn't. Mr. Rizzo asked if there was any way to prove she wasn't biased. Donald Rizzo, everyone!
There was also a Special Order from Shanta Driver. For those of you familiar with her arguments, the BAMN folks say that anti-affirmative action measures are unconstitutional because they deny minorities from seeking special treatment, but don't deny other groups, like veterans or whatever, and therefore is racist. It doesn't get much dumber than that. More on this later, but I just want to quote one of my favorite passages from a ruling lifting an injunction against Prop 209:
Proposition 209 amends the California Constitution simply to prohibit state discrimination against or preferential treatment to any person on account of race or gender. Plaintiffs charge that this ban on unequal treatment denies members of certain races and one gender equal protection of the laws. If merely stating this alleged equal protection violation does not suffice to refute it, the central tenet of the Equal Protection Clause teeters on the brink of incoherence.
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