Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Last week
Last week, on ASUC, terror stuck:
Mr. Poullard said there have been problems regarding the chalking policy, specifically as related to the past election campaign. He had a chance to talk about this with Mr. Permaul, Executive Offices, and members of his staff. He thought they should revise their current policy regarding chalking, and thought they've come up with a way to have a win-win-win situation, not just for elections, but at all times. He didn't know why the campus didn't allow chalking. He understood it could cause some drama and be a nuisance, but he also thought it was a way to communicate. At a previous school, people could chalk and had 48-hours after an event to clean it up, with fines if that didn't occur. I don't think minor parties "win" with that.
Mr. Permaul said he's been working with other professionals on the campus to conceive of a shared concept of student leadership. He, the Dean of Students, and others working on this will unveil these ideas through a variety of approaches to student leadership development in the coming year. He and Ms. Crowder will hold meetings and introduce their version at the Student Leadership Institute. They have a novel and interesting approach they have agreed, as a group of professionals, to use. It was advanced to them by the Director of the Multicultural Center, Lisa Walker. He thought it will be an interesting and thoughtful way to approach student leadership. They're looking forward to changing the culture of student leadership on the campus in a positive way. "Positive," in this context, means "more favorable to administrative interests."
Mr. Daniels said he would apologize for not coming last week because of the elections. The MOU between the GA and the ASUC stated that the GA would pay 12% of election costs, or higher, if the percentage of grad students voting was higher. The GA President and the ASUC President would negotiate payment of $30,000 from previously. That has not happened that year. This was the first year they were supposed to pay that back. So he'll talk with Pres. Gabriel, and Pres.-elect Nguyen about how they wanted to work that out, to pay back the amount of money for this year. If that didn't happen, for whatever reason, Mr. Daniels said he wanted to put everyone on notice that the GA would send a check to the ASUC for $6,000 of the previous $30,000 that it owed, and 12% of the election costs from last year. So he was putting people on notice. The reason was because the GA didn't want to go into next year owing and not following up on its side of the agreement. So unless Pres. Gabriel came to the GA with some sort of request to negotiate, that's where they stood. So... even after bitching about their obligations before and not following through with them until the ASUC just gave up, they're still behind? (I thought grad student turnout last year was higher than 12%, by the way) It's good to see that Oren Gabriel is taking a hands-off approach to government. Still, he might stop by every month or so and do his job. How are those Judicial Council appointments coming?
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