… Joint Vision 2017 was delayed …
For those of you who are unaware, the bureaucrats in the ASUN offices tried doubling your student fees this semester in order to try and justify their existence. Even though they used super duper impressive slogans like action plans, joint visions, work groups, student input, evolving campus culture, enhancing support mechanisms, expanding the co-curricular experience, and encouraging active learning (I’m not making this up), no one bought their crap and it failed. If anyone thought it was anything more than ASUN trying to hire a few more fellow bureaucrats, you are seriously underestimating human nature and the natural propensity of governments and organizations to expand.
But not everything was a loss at the main budget hearing, nor would I want to spend this season of giving thanks merely complaining. There was a gem or two during the debacle that I would like to give today. Who can forget when Amy Koeckes, ASUN bureaucrat #4, implied that ASUN needed more bros or shes leaving to go to Ohio State?
“Studies have also shown that keg stand time can be directly correlated with academic success.”
In classic UNR Students for Liberty fashion, we illustrated governments cannot rob people of money and expect that money to be allocated efficiently. When you are spending other people’s money without real accountability in order to achieve an end which cannot be benchmarked, the end result will ALWAYS be
an inefficient allocation of resources. The ASUN is doomed to fail because it lacks true monetary accountability to anyone (as opposed to stockholders of a company), it attempts to achieve an end which cannot be benchmarked: “to better the undergraduate populace’s experience” (as opposed to maximizing profitability like what a private firm would do), and it is ridden with bureaucrats who, for good reason, have no incentive to perform well because performance is not measured. There is nothing the ASUN can do, or any government agency for that matter, to provide true incentive to perform for there is not a built in mechanism for them to do so.
This is what I tried demonstrating at the senate meeting. Enjoy!
