In many nations, the lazy fatcat bureaucrats in their towering spires of power are content to put their grotesquely corpulent feet up on the desk and leave the important business of creating building code to the teeming masses of hardworking municipal legislators.
Not so Switzerland, a small country in Central Europe. [...]
By setting a zero percent benchmark at its Wednesday night meeting, the ASUO Senate sent a message, loud and clear: “Go Ducks, but LTD can lick my sweaty, shaven nutsack.”
Or something like that. Probably not that exactly, considering that slightly more than half the Senate lacks nutsacks, sweaty and shaven [...]
I fear I can’t write something that will do justice to that ASUO Senate meeting. It was “The Storm on the Sea of Galilee.” It was “Don Quijote.” It was “The Four Seasons.” And I? I am merely William Hung, tuneless, charmless, clueless.
Let’s plunge in anyway at a most unexpected [...]
I’ve got a lot of ground to cover in this post, so I’m going to use the bulleted format that’s been so popular in the past. We had several rejections
Our top story (Things people who read the blog might actually care about edition): After discussions with ASUO President Emma Kallaway [...]Hi there. Tonight we’ve got another ASUO Senate meeting coming up that you can follow live below. Looking at the agenda for the meeting, it appears special requests are out and confirmations are in. ASUO President Emma Kallaway still has Xavier Aranda’s confirmation to the ASUO Senate pending, and [...]
The ASUO president may have appointed a student to the Student Senate ineligible to vote in the race for his own seat, although nobody I’ve yet talked to seems to know with certainty whether that’s the case.
The student is ethnic studies major Xavier Aranda, whom everyone on the Senate seemed [...]
Something about the way the Athletic Department is distributing tickets this year has spawned more complaints than last year from students who want tickets but feel they can’t get them because of the new system.
That has the ASUO nervous. What does the ASUO have to do with it? Well, it [...]
