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It’s My Ball, I’m Going Home With It, And We’re Tabling Your Budget As Well

Time to revive the old OC catchphrase for campus political matters: Something Really Stupid this way comes. This is a fantastic display of petulance by the Executive, and they deserve nothing but ridicule for it. The ODE is one of a very, very few student groups that actually operates at a more or less professional level and produces a tangible end product that is of interest to a majority of the student body. (Even when they end up running five pages of wire-service stories, I will grudgingly concede.)

The ODE isn’t distributed that widely. What’s more, to assume that students are not the paper’s “target audience” just because it isn’t being left in bundles outside Suite 4 is absurd. Let me say that slowly and clearly, for any members of the ASUO who may be reading: not all students live in the dorms. Why, some of them live as far as half a mile away from campus!

Also, as has been pointed out, some 90% (correct me if I’m wrong, please) of the ODE’s budget comes from advertising revenue. Wider distribution means more advertising. More advertising means they need less of an incidental-fee subsidy. This is a good thing, one would think.

What’s most striking, though, is the sheer chutzpah of the quote Tim mentioned. The same people who wanted to spend twenty thousand dollars of other people’s money last month sending themselves to USSA conferences are now concerned about paying a guy in a van to drop off newspapers at the Baker Downtown Center. Oh, my aching sides. It’s almost enough to make you think that the Executive has some kind of personal grudge against the ODE and their tendency to report on things like, I don’t know, prominent campus figures physically assaulting women at bars.

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