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E-PrinceThe USG Senate voted unanimously on Sunday night to place a referendum on the ballot asking the student body to cancel the USG fall Lawnparties concert and contribute the USG’s social budget to the University’s Annual Giving campaign ...(back to the article)
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Um, I can't believe the social committee gets 70,000 to just eff around with.
This is the first I've heard of this, but I think it's a great idea. The money could be used for far better purposes.
I don't think there will be significant student support for the idea. Even as an outgoing senior who won't see any of the benefits from spending the money on Fall lawnparties, I don't think I'd support this move.
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How about instead of donating it to Annual Giving, you just decrease the social fees and dues each undergraduate has to pay? Seems more fair to me.
Tiny symbolic move that will actually impact students, rather than cutting actual waste. Almost as stupid as Obama's idea to combat the $700B deficit by cutting $0.003B:
President Obama, whose healthcare and economic stimulus initiatives threaten to dramatically inflate the federal budget deficit, heralded a new push Saturday to cut wasteful spending in Washington...
The president singled out a move by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to end consulting contracts to create seals and logos that he said had cost the department $3 million since 2003.
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevol...
I agree with really?. Especially since the non-lawnparty social fees seem to be paying for things that students wouldn't really agree to have if they could get the cash they paid for with back. How many "free" t-shirts and poorly attended study breaks at frist do we need?
I'd kind of like it if they told us who they were planning on getting for lawnparties also. Giving up another Lupe Fiasco? Hmmph. Giving up another Joan Jett? Heck yeah.
This is pretty bogus. While there is a good argument that the social funds are generally wasted on useless stuff, the idea that donating the student government social funds to annual giving will do anything is shockingly stupid. If anything it speaks to the inability of most americans to comprehend what large numbers mean. The endowment has decreased in value significantly over the last year. The endowment is still way over 10 billion dollars. 70k is literally nothing to this university, and shirley doesn't need the USGs 70k and if she does she'll just increase tuition more for it. If the USG feels dirty handling money during tough economic times than they should refund it to the families that are sacrificing to pay tuition + required social fees.
This is absolutely absurd. I agree with previous commenters in that there are so many other areas where we could cut our wastes. I don't want fifteen Chik-Fil-A study breaks, I want my concert at Lawnparties.
Absolutely agree. Events that bring us together as a student body are few and far between and thus far more important than all the smaller, less attended events throughout the year. This is an important event and everyone whose commenting on this needs to show up in person on Wednesday to make your voices count.