A group of angry students marched down to the university president’s office in Cramer Hall Tuesday night for some good old-fashioned criminal mischief. The students covered President Bernstine’s office with pink slips of paper signed by students who want to save the University Studies graduate mentor program.
Snark Attack
A group of angry students marched down to the university president’s office in Cramer Hall Tuesday night for some good old-fashioned criminal mischief. The students covered President Bernstine’s office with pink slips of paper signed by students who want to save the University Studies graduate mentor program. The students also hung a poster that featured a monkey chopping down a tree that was supposed to represent University Studies. Administrators say they are exploring options that may save the graduate mentors, but doing so would most likely mean (another) fee.
Why you should care: Are you a graduate mentor? Do you actually like sophomore inquiry (SINQ) mentor sessions? If either case is true, these guys are your heroes. If you are like the majority of SINQ students and sleep through mentor sessions, try to get done with your SINQ classes this year so you don’t have to pay extra or pray that the mentors get canned and wait until the fall to finish up.
The Student Fee Committee voted to zero-fund Student Activities and Leadership Programs, otherwise known as by the cuddly acronym SALP. Apparently SALP is supposed to have an advisory board that, among other things, must approve the SALP budget. Since SALP never established an advisory board to review their budget, the SFC decided to stick it to them by zero-funding their initial budget request. Confused? So is SALP. The bottom line is that now SALP must appeal the initial allocation to get any money for next year.
Why you should care: Do you like it when the people in charge screw up? Have a good chuckle over this one.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is causing quite a stir over her request for a larger government airplane to ferry her back and forth from Washington D.C. to San Francisco. Republicans have already started to call Pelosi “Non-stop Nancy.” In a weird twist, the White House has sided with Ms. Non-stop. White House spokesman Tony Snow called the story “silly” and unfair. Come on people, even President Bush knows this is stupid.
Why you should care: Don’t you love it when our elected officials bitch over the size of the free airplane they get to use whenever they feel like? Yeah…
