Comments on: “I don’t give a damn!”: GUSA senator stages sit-in at SAC constitution meeting

By: Vox Populi » Prefrosh Preview: News you can use

Vox Populi » Prefrosh Preview: News you can use — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:41:32 +0000

[...] has attempted with little success to start up an independent club fund and battled with SAC over the process of appointing the Commission Chair. Most recently GUSA threatened to not [...]

By: Vox Populi » SAC Chair tells clubs that GUSA’s budget battle could put them in “deep financial jeopardy”

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:31:33 +0000

[...] the looks of it, this could easily balloon into the great GUSA-SAC war redux (perhaps Khaled could turn the tables on Troiano & Co. and stage an impromptu sit-in?). [...]

By: Vox Populi » Hitting the G-SPAN: Nick Troiano liveblogs on openGUSA

Vox Populi » Hitting the G-SPAN: Nick Troiano liveblogs on openGUSA — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:45:36 +0000

[...] Senator Nick Troiano (Village A, F-H), he of the storied SAC sit-in, cemented his place in Vox’s heart (we have one, blackened and withered as it may be…) [...]

By: Vox Populi » Just because GW’s Vishal Aswani is paranoid doesn’t mean we’re not blogging

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:11:38 +0000

[...] I’m feeling jealous of all the fun the press is having over at GW. Our best hope is that whispers of a Troianometer will goad one feisty Senator into performing another [...]

By: Will Sommer

Will Sommer — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:19:31 +0000

You’re welcome! The whole thing is pretty strange, especially considering how few students seem to be paying attention. I don’t blame them–SAC and GUSA things are boring, and it rarely ever really matters. In this case it does, though, so I hope some students are telling Todd Olson what they think about SAC’s power grab.

By: Hoya

Hoya — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:46:34 +0000

This is getting ridiculous. The most frustrating thing is that so few students pay attention to these issues that affect all of us, or surely there would be more outrage about a naked power-grab by an organization that isn’t democratically selected and which exercises outsize power over student life at Georgetown. I find the mere existence of SAC offensive most of the time, as they frequently and inexplicably deny requests for funding for really enormous, popular groups (the College Democrats, the Southeast Asian Society, etc.) which sitting on a giant pile of leftover money we all pay for. I’m not paying my activities fee for 4 years only to watch it get spend on students 2, 3, 4 years down the road.

This is a pattern in SAC’s history of making unilateral decisions without club or GUSA input. Late last year they inexplicably decided to renovate SAC offices, supposedly for the use of students– yet somehow, the result has been an office system that leaves space even less accessible to clubs than before. Clubs are still attempting to track down stuff that SAC moved out of their offices over the summer with no notice.

I am consistently horrified by the sense of entitlement that SAC members– and, in particular, Ms. Behnia– seem to exude regarding their relative importance on campus. I keep hoping that they will prove me wrong, but after 3 and a half years, I am forced to conclude that SAC members, including Ms. Behnia, are as egomaniacal as they appear.

Thanks to the Voice for reporting on this important issue.

By: Vox Populi » GUSA and the Meeting of Mayhem

Vox Populi » GUSA and the Meeting of Mayhem — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:35:28 +0000

[...] certainly set the bar high for angry late-night meeting antics on Monday, but GUSA proved that chaos and outrage aren’t [...]

By: Molly Redden

Molly Redden — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:24:36 +0000

Thanks Meredith! Happy to keep you posted on the bureaucrats’-in-training wheelings and dealings.

By: Meredith Ponder

Meredith Ponder — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:24:58 +0000

I will never understand the politics of this campus. Seems like there’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes that pretty much everyone else has no idea about–but this stuff is important! SAC funding is important! Thanks for calling it out.

By: Will Sommer

Will Sommer — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:43:45 +0000

He’s definitely making a name for himself.