Opinion
Ouster unfair
By Dave Holmes
Editor-In-Chief
On Feb. 20, Stefanie Weaver was removed from her office of
ASG Assistant to the President. The reasons for her removal,
according to ASG President Daniel Hilts, were justifiable and
substantial. In reality, the reasons given for her ouster were
nothing more than cheap, leaky excuses for ASG to see just how
swiftly and cleanly the ax could fall.
Unfortunately, the blow was neither swift or clean.
Hilts defended the action by saying that he felt it was all done
in the beat interests of ASG and the student body. He couldn’t
have been more wrong on both counts.
First, the ouster could do nothing but harm ASG since it
leaves a vacancy in a cabinet position. Also, such proceedings,
having taken place three times this school year, only create
dissention, fear, and resentment within ASG.
Second, the student body doesn’t seem to care about ousters
or who’s doing what just as long as activities continue to take
place. This was, indeed, the case with Weaver.
Weaver had been placed on a “time-line” by Hilts a month
ago, and she had met nearly every requirement, or was com
pleting them, when Hilts asked for her recall.
Weaver had shown improvement in responsibilities towards
her duties since the implementation of the time-line, and seemed
to falter only once. That occurrence was the “Dating in the
80’s” forum during Sexual Awareness Week. Out of the entire
lot of Hilts’ complaints about Weaver, her performance at the
forum, or lack thereof, was his only substantial argument for
her dismissal.
The point that Hilts, and most other ASG members, failed to
see is that an essentially volunteer organization shouldn’t fire so
meone who shows improvement. In such an instance, bad
moral, bitter feelings, and back-watching tension can only be the
result.
Hey, what are they going to do to someone who really screws
up, hang them at high noon?
(Perhaps the worst part of the proceedings were the reports of
verbal assault that came out of the group’s executive session.
Each person got to brandish their own little hatchet and take an
individual whack at Weaver if they so desired. Executive session
is supposed to be a time for free speech in a meeting, but such
behavior is a distinct misuse of the privilege^
Misuse didn’t stop with Weaver or privileges, either. Hilts
refused to admit a reporter from The Print to a special session of
ASG later that day on the grounds that such a presence would be
disruptive. All of this was done in direct violation of Oregon’s
Public Meetings law (ORS 192.630).
From this point, with the damage already done, ASG needs to
take a hard look at itself. And goal planning meetings aren’t go
ing to get that job done. What it comes down to is ASG justify
ing its existence, and then finding the best way possible to serve
(i.e. DO something for) its constituency.
The best way to do that would be to get internal priorities
straightened out and then go to the public, which they will do in
an open forum Feb. 26.
Rules, while laid down for good reasons, will always be tested
by circumstance. The Weaver ouster was one circumstnce where
the rule should have broken under the test.
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From my side.of the pool
A certain brand of humor. . .
By Dave Holmes
Editor-In-Chief
There is a question that has plagued mankind
for centuries: Are we having fun yet?
It’s a question I heard a lot this last weekend
as I traveled with the College’s women’s basket
ball team to Seattle for a play-off game. And
it’s just now that I find an answer to the eternal
question.
“It all depends.”
Let me clarify that. I have my idea of fun.
The team has theirs. And on this trip a strange
thing happened: the two started to merge.
Of course, the Chinese fire drill is a must on
trips such as that one, but it was the first time
I’d ever seen it executed by six women in
sweats.
Nobody I know likes AM
radio. You can turn the
dial and hear the same
Barry Manilo song on at
least four different sta
tions.
And never have I seen it done with such
grace. Sue Johnston displayed her acrobatic
skills for everyone at the intersection by at
tempting a slide with a full twist around the
right fender of the van. Perhaps a half gainer
would have been a better bet, as Johnston and
the rain-soaked pavement had an abrupt
meeting.
One guy in an Oldsmobile held up a card that
read “7.3,” but I gave her an “8” for flair.
Fast food places never cease to amaze me,
and I ate at quite a few on that trip. But the
Auburn, Washington Burger King wins my
“Revenge Is Sweet” award. (The word ‘sweet’
was another thing I heard all weekend long. I
now hate that word.)
After a rousing chorus of “Is Herb here?” at
the drive-thru speaker, Liz Toriano ordered
four large ice waters and, politely, asked if that
would cost anything.
The voice (you can hardly ever tell if the
voice belongs to a male or a female) said it
wouldn’t, but Liz must have changed her mind
between the speaker and the window. She told
the girl at the window to forget about it, and
received in return a very dirty look, which was
accompanied by an obscene gesture.
Liz thought it was funny, and through the
laughter she could be heard saying “Hey, let’s
go back there and get the (can’t print that ad
jective) fired.” Revenge may be sweet, but I’ll
take a good laugh every time.
On a fast food crusade of her own is Angie
Stein, who won’t eat meat fried in anything big
ger than a frying pan. She claims it’s because of
the grease, but I think she’s become a secret ad
dict of alfalfa sprouts.
What starts out as just doing social
vegetables can turn into hard-core plant con
sumption.
Nobody I know likes AM radio. You can
turn the dial and hear the same Barry Manilo
song on at least four different stations. And 1-5
from Tacoma to Vancouver is no exception.
Except the exception of Patty Mattis, who can
find a Top-40 song on the radio within one
minute.
Unfortunately, there’s a lot of static on AM
radio, and Patty almost drove her teammates to
the extreamly boring boredom reliever known
as ‘Hey, let’s all sing a song!’ At that point I
opted to save my sanity and went to sleep, such
that it was in a van.
All in all, I did have fun. And I even learned
a few things, like “Hey, I could do this for a
living.”
I think I now know where the rumor that
goes ‘Sports journalism is a cop-out for half
witted writers and washed-up reporters’ came
from. That rumor was started by a group of
sports reporters who wanted to keep a good
thing to themselves.
There was a lot more to the trip than what I
described above, but almost everything else that
happened was followed by the second most us
ed question in human language: You’re not go
ing to print that, are you?
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