Comments on: Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount sworn in as the new GUSA Executive

By: @Hoya from actual Hoya

@Hoya from actual Hoya — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:09:16 +0000

@Hoya – Please take the time and think hard about your statements made about members of our shared LBTQ community on the hilltop. An LGBTQ – friendly (!!!) checkbox does not mean and will not mean that you 1) must check that box if you identity as LGBTQ and 2) that only incoming LGBTQ students will check that box.
The initiative about such a checkbox was started after several incoming students were physically and verbally harassed by their roommates, whereas others stated that prospective roommates would just stop talking to them on CHARMS. It is also not a visible checkbox, but people will be able to search for those who check the box and thereby indicate that they are LGBTQ-friendly minded and won’t beat up on a roommate if said roommate identifies as LGBTQ.

By: And...

And... — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:35:31 +0000

can we now get back to not caring about GUSA again?

By: typical

typical — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:58:27 +0000

Finally, she eliminated the Secretary of Strategic Development because, in her words, “I don’t know what that person did last year.”

-I don’t know what GUSA has done any of these years…can we eliminate that too?

By: Hoya

Hoya — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:27:15 +0000

*those who do not check the box. My bad.

By: Hoya

Hoya — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:24:47 +0000

LGBT-friendly box on CHARMS sounds like an awful idea. As a gay guy, I can say with certainty that my freshman roommate would not have checked that box, but four years later we are still good friends. Also, it makes it so that those who check the box will feel cheated if they end up with a gay roommate. ALSO! Let us not forget that most of the openly gay people at Gtown come out right around freshman year, so most of them will not indicate that they are gay on their CHARMS forms. It just seems like a recipe for disaster.

By: sir

sir — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:06:41 +0000

Respect both P and VP. I know they will be effective and hard working leaders. I hope though, that their progressive ideology doesn’t get in the way.

By: Hoya

Hoya — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:06:39 +0000

AVK as the hidden acronym for Alexandra Kohnert-Yount – WHAT A VAIL TO HIDE BEHIND!

By: Oops

Oops — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:56:12 +0000

Guy on the left forgot to comb his hair… or was this swearing in very late on St. Patty’s so he’s already just hammered?

By: AVK

AVK — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:17:35 +0000

As Clara was sworn in on my copy of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, it was quite a radical departure from that tradition.

By: JW

JW — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:54:03 +0000

Healyologists will notice a major break with tradition, as the last several GUSA elects were sworn in on a stack of printed out pages from brobible.com.