Update on “Take Back the Campus”
As I previously reported, there will be a meeting, now titled “Take Back the Campus”, held on Monday, March 3 at 7 p.m. in Willamette 100. The event, co-hosted by the ASUO and the Sustainability Coalition, will focus on student involvement on campus and recent actions by the university administration.
You can tell from the oddly proportioned “power to the people” fist on the right (the event’s logo) that the organizers mean business. Or at least have some vague concept of business. According to the Facebook event, the meeting “is not one night of complaining but a chance to come together and take action.” No, I’m pretty sure it will mostly be complaining. Not that there’s anything wrong with that; I’m just saying …
For a full list of the grievances cited by the event organizers,
According to the aforementioned Facebook page, the meeting was spurred by student concern on recent issues such as:
- Construction of new sports arenas and levying of major bonds
- The removal of wrestling
- Ethnic studies not yet being departmentalized
- The replacement of Holy Cow
- The potential of tasers being brought to campus and the possibility of DPS being departmentalized with Eugene Police Department
- Lack of administrative action on sustainability initiatives
This should be a wild time. I’ll be there with a digital recorder to capture any craziness.
P.S. Crossing my fingers for a Ty Schwoeffermann tirade.
Thank you to the organizers of tonight’s event. It turned out being quite informative for me. And thanks for the shout out PB!
Sean – Your slate should go Take Back the Take Back the Campus.
BTW Take Back the Campus is just a political stunt for some programs slate that’s going to run in the ASUO elections.
Stop posting long comments! They fuck up our page.
Learn To Use HTML
Made clickable to fix the formatting idiocy. Dude, a href is your friend.
Take back the campus from who?!
That campus is already completely dominated by the far left and the even further far left.
It’s hard to describe how terrible a Programs Council Meeting is to attend.
Btw, I only missed the last one because they changed the meeting room and I had a hard time finding the room in the Law School, the pricks wouldn’t let me sign in because I was too late…and intoxicated.
/Nothing takes the edge off of a PCM than a few gin and tonics.
I hope all these sustainability nuts start realizing that the single most beneficial act won’t be solar panels, but genocide.
I hope all these sustainability nuts start realizing that the single most beneficial act won’t be more solar panels but rather the adoption of co-mingle recycling containers so that freshman stop throwing away all their beer cans and paper because they’re too lazy to separate everything.
Damn, I wish I could still attend the PCM’s, they were the highlight of my month!
I, for one, am shocked that Commentator staffers would chance missing something as singularly important as the Programs Council Meeting.
ASUO Programs Administrator Emma Kallaway sent out an e-mail this afternoon saying that going to Take Back Campus will give your group credit for the next PCM meeting. Good news for us since Guy would inevitably miss the mext PCM meeting. From the e-mail:
It’s not just you, though my first thought was “Damn, someone in that crowd has a seriously gigantic foam hand!”
I’m surprised, there are some actual issues there. {Area} Studies shouldn’t be a department, and “sustainability” is just hippie speak for “economically unsound bollocks that makes trustifarians feel good”, but the rest are actually sort of relevant.
But is it just me or does that fist look more like it’s about to crush all those peasants?