…Five (plus) Thousand Dollars… …For CATERING!…
So why exactly did we request so much money for such stupid things? Why did we want funds for things we feel the club commission has no right funding? How did we get about $1,000 to bring an anarchist on campus? How did we get catered? How did we get bullets? How did we nearly get a cruise? And why oh why would we want all of these things?
To get you to ask the next question: Why would the club commission fund this stuff?
Many people from the Sagebrush to the VisLupiKids to the CoffinAndKeyBros have all tried to explain how the system is supposed to work. In fact, in their recent “edition” of their newsletter (aww, ain’t that cute? A newsletter.), the CoffinKeyPeople rubbed two neurons together to try to explain how club funding is “supposed” to work: ”Think of it like a start-up business loan, which the clubs pay back by providing students one more potential option for an extraordinary college experience.” Not only is this an asinine and naive way of thinking about club funding, but as they readily admit “it [current club funding] has done the complete opposite.”
These same people have said that something needs to be done: draft some legislation, talk to your senator, get a petition going, do something. They’ve typed and typed and typed telling others that “they” need to do…well…something.
Well, I suppose we were guilty of the same laziness. We said, Maybe we should become senators. So, we tried to become senator
s. We said, Maybe we should go to a senate meeting. But, they’re boring, nothing gets done, we have jobs and school, and these senators were hired to do a job, not hired to sit on their ass waiting for suggestions. We said, Maybe we should write the commission directly and show them the problem. And write to them we did. We said, Maybe we should try something else.
And we tried something else.
We eventually figured out that you can’t rationally fix an irrational system. Fight the ridiculous with the absurd. If they don’t see how dumb their system is, let us show them. If they don’t know the effects of their policies, let us teach them. If they don’t hear anything else, let it be our voices. Let them hear and see and feel and know they are wrong. We show ourselves and our actions and we proclaim that this is what you get with no accountability, no responsibility. Our funds our superfluous, our purchases are frivolous, and you will come to know us — come to know yourselves — through our insolence and waste.
Our work is not yet done.
