News round up 2a...
ASM grills students over union initiative
I'm not paying them to rip up a union that been under construction for the better part of my career here, or put union south under construction on top of it. Its insane how much construction I've lived literally next to since I first came here and I'm frankly sick of it.
One comment posted on the online version of the article read: "Half of students in the 1920s gave $50 or more -- the equivalent of almost $600 today -- to build the Memorial Union, which they would never see as students." My reaction: Unions are just fine the way they are now, both of them and on top of that I don't care what imaginary 1920's money they donated; $50 in 1920 is $50 in 1920. That statistic has no bearing on me today I dont have $50 to buy a nice bottle of wine much less literally throw away for students who won't appreciate it. If we had NO union right now, much less TWO of them, I would be concerned with donating money to the cause of building one in the first place just as they were.
Wiley: Marching Band’s future up in air
Jesus. fucking. Christ. I want to know who dropped a duce in Wiley's personal urinal because thats the only thing I can think of to piss him off this much. A top tier, prestigious, major university with a ranked football program, is threatening to REMOVE the band, dissolving it completely? I can't even count how many articles I've read in the last few years involving football and basketball players involved in domestic violence, drug charges, drunken mop-eding, assault and battery. They barely were so much as put on suspension, and only if they were actually IN a jail cell. So why in the fuck is the entire band take so much blame for this? The other day Wiley said he wouldn't disclose what the incident was because people would know exactly who did it because it was such a specific occurrence. Adults who are arrested on charges both false and true have their names printed and broadcast all the time. What the fuck happened that it is both unspeakable AND in press releases? Wiley - you are a hypocrite and a terrible leader; don't even get me started on the sweatshop issue.
UW says website causing ‘ruckus’
This is why "social networking sites" are fucking stupid. By the time they have anyone on them they are bought up, exploited, and data mined until there is no original spark of the creative free thinking minds who conceived of the project in the first place. Here's to me hoping all you self-described "facebook whores" learned a lesson about putting ever possible bit of personal information on a (in all but name) public location.
I'm not paying them to rip up a union that been under construction for the better part of my career here, or put union south under construction on top of it. Its insane how much construction I've lived literally next to since I first came here and I'm frankly sick of it.
One comment posted on the online version of the article read: "Half of students in the 1920s gave $50 or more -- the equivalent of almost $600 today -- to build the Memorial Union, which they would never see as students." My reaction: Unions are just fine the way they are now, both of them and on top of that I don't care what imaginary 1920's money they donated; $50 in 1920 is $50 in 1920. That statistic has no bearing on me today I dont have $50 to buy a nice bottle of wine much less literally throw away for students who won't appreciate it. If we had NO union right now, much less TWO of them, I would be concerned with donating money to the cause of building one in the first place just as they were.
Wiley: Marching Band’s future up in air
Jesus. fucking. Christ. I want to know who dropped a duce in Wiley's personal urinal because thats the only thing I can think of to piss him off this much. A top tier, prestigious, major university with a ranked football program, is threatening to REMOVE the band, dissolving it completely? I can't even count how many articles I've read in the last few years involving football and basketball players involved in domestic violence, drug charges, drunken mop-eding, assault and battery. They barely were so much as put on suspension, and only if they were actually IN a jail cell. So why in the fuck is the entire band take so much blame for this? The other day Wiley said he wouldn't disclose what the incident was because people would know exactly who did it because it was such a specific occurrence. Adults who are arrested on charges both false and true have their names printed and broadcast all the time. What the fuck happened that it is both unspeakable AND in press releases? Wiley - you are a hypocrite and a terrible leader; don't even get me started on the sweatshop issue.
UW says website causing ‘ruckus’
This is why "social networking sites" are fucking stupid. By the time they have anyone on them they are bought up, exploited, and data mined until there is no original spark of the creative free thinking minds who conceived of the project in the first place. Here's to me hoping all you self-described "facebook whores" learned a lesson about putting ever possible bit of personal information on a (in all but name) public location.
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