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With the latest ASUO election season just wrapping up, it does some good to examine the activities and accomplishments of the current ASUO Executive as we more forward into the future. As this issue goes to press the results of the general election are unknown, but the choice between Pilliod/Buzbee and Ritche/Babkes is the same choice that occurs most every year: one leftist wonk and another leftist wonk. The question of whether or not the new wonks will actually be seen around campus remains, however. The current Executives, Nilda Brooklyn and Joy Nair, have been most notably absent from press around campus (particularly absent from ridicule in the pages of this magazine) so what have they done with this year in office? Not terribly much, but some of the Executives’ decisions have been quite surprising, other have been just plain stupid.
First on the list of recommendations that stunned the hell out of anyone paying attention to the PFC was the Exec’s recommendation of the $23,605 cut to the budget of everyone’s favorite lobbying group, OSPIRG. The PFC this year gave OSPIRG only $120,819 of the $144,162 that the group requested. That fact along is surprising enough, but that the recommendation came from the candidates who ran on the “we’re women, we’re ethnic” platform last spring is enough to shock even the most jaded of campus onlookers. We here at the Commentator have been calling for cuts to OSPRIG’s budget for the better part of two decades with no luck, that the current ASUO Exec would finally make such a recommendation fills our hard, bitter little hearts with glee. However, the cut could have been much larger. Ideally, OSPIRG would receive no funding from our Incidental Fees, but on this campus that is simply not going to happen....
...the rest of this article didn't show up for rehersals and was cut.
Its understudy is white space. Enjoy!
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