Comments on: GUSA Roundup: Outdoors and taking roll

By: NTisa @Jacob

NTisa @Jacob — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:41:20 +0000

I do appreciate a good Potemkin reference. Rest of the reply was a little boring though. Hope you volunteered for Georgetown Day!

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:19:25 +0000

For all of the speaker’s talk of reform and the numerous promises and platitudes foisted upon the student body each year, this post demonstrates that the eternal problems of GUSA: it has no electoral legitimacy, its members refuse to do the jobs their 30 acquaintances (sorry, “constituents”) pick them for and whatever is proposed is immediately buried under a mountain of paperwork, meetings and “consultations.” Meanwhile, the administration runs roughshod over things students actually care about, like Healy Pub or Georgetown Day while we are treated to a spectacle of pompous oaths and procedures by Talbot and his Potemkin legislature.

Get it through your heads people, student “leadership positions” have nothing to do with leadership and everything to do with positioning.

By: ATalbot

ATalbot — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:49:38 +0000

@OFFTOPIC

This was actually discussed in some length at the meeting, and Clara and Vail are coordinating the GUSA effort on the student Planning Committee which has done its best to pick up the slack the University has abandoned. The University will still be paying for security, I believe.

We’re patching together as much funding as we can from across campus; there will be food and amenities to be had in Red Square on the lawn. Corp has donated ~1000 water bottles, GU Pride is furnishing a dunk tank, etc. Students are doing what they can, but I understand the planning committee need people to sign up to volunteer:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGJpWm14UnBpbU9tV014UjZjWDF0ZWc6MQ

Go there!

By: OFFTOPIC

OFFTOPIC — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:18:35 +0000

Get we get some details on Georgetown Day? Like… are we actually allowed on the lawn?

By: JS

JS — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:31:46 +0000

Before you retire, Ryan, I want you to admit you’ve enjoyed your time covering GUSA.