Well, folks, I’m kind of playing catch-up here, not 24 hours removed from my honeymoon. But I had to note the latest brilliance from PFC Vice Chair Mason Quiroz, our erstwhile tag, now revealed as the catalyst of the PFC’s illegal actions against us. Witness him now badgering an utterly uncontroversial law school community outreach program:

ASUO Controller Will Richard praised law student organization Family Law in Practice’s “positive growth.”

But Quiroz took issue with FLIP’s acronym. “Be careful about your acronym,” he said. “It’s a derogatory name for Filipinos.”

The organization’s leaders agreed to reconsider the name. FLIP received a total budget of $370 to be used for speakers and networking socials.

Yes, Mason, it is a derogatory name for Filipinos. It’s also a perfectly neutral name for that thing that happens when you perform a somersault in midair. What does this have to do with the organization’s budget?

You can see how, if he considers it worthwhile (and legal) to nitpick the name of a non-political, non-provocative community group like FLIP, targeting us feels entirely legitimate to him. But I could not dream of a better demonstration of why “uneducated” undergraduates should not be representing the State of Oregon in doling out funding according to a highly sensitive set of legal guidelines. I guess I’d respect Quiroz a whole lot more if he said things like this more often:

“I abstain. I’m confused now,” Quiroz said.

Ah, Mason, if only you had realized that a few months ago.

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