gellogelato ([info]gellogelato) wrote in [info]ucberkeley,
@ 2007-04-11 21:20:00
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Good Deed of the Day
Do your fellow Cal Students a favor and DON'T vote for Student Action.

That is all.

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[info]machiavellis2
2007-04-12 05:08 am UTC (link)
i agree with you 100%

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[info]gigilikewhoa
2007-04-12 05:25 am UTC (link)
uhm....excuse my ignorance...but why???

(serious question)

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[info]gellogelato
2007-04-12 05:31 am UTC (link)
pergury, increase student fees, using asuc money to pay for personal legal fees, and um, yeah, they are fake.

"hi, there, omg, nice to meet you, let me add you on facebook"

i think i vomit a little everytime i hear that on sproul.

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[info]lcru17173r
2007-04-12 05:43 am UTC (link)
agreed. that's why i'm voting CALSERVE.

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[info]gnaij
2007-04-12 08:02 am UTC (link)
Yeah, Student Action sucks. Somehow, I think they've coached their exec candidates this year to pass flyers to as many people as possible without attempt to seriously pitch their platform. They approach me, shake my hand, hand me a flyer, tell me to read what's on the flyer, and leave. The whole transaction takes less that 30 seconds. If they don't even want to bother starting a conversation, then I shouldn't even bother voting for them.

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[info]antiepiphany
2007-04-12 05:47 am UTC (link)
donenothingsa.org

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[info]pinkmitten
2007-04-12 05:58 am UTC (link)
AGREE! Vote for someone else.

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[info]joshuak
2007-04-12 06:44 am UTC (link)
protip: do not vote at all. do not vindicate random assholes violating your privacy around campus all day. if you live in a coop, they've probably invaded your dinner, too.

fuck college politics. nothing happens.

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[info]antiepiphany
2007-04-12 07:00 am UTC (link)
except that tens of thousands of dollars of your money (or your parents') are squandered. how's that for a reason to vote?

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[info]princessdaze
2007-04-12 07:22 am UTC (link)
more are squandered w/ useless idiots who call themselves "politicians" and will do big great things for the world--ooh big bad scary politician come save my $s, get real, college "politicians" just want attention, uh, look around, it's college, most don't get that far. my $s can be better spent WITHOUT politicians.

please all--don't vote. maybe this nonsense called college politics will die.

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[info]antiepiphany
2007-04-12 07:36 am UTC (link)
yeah, that's genius. your money can be better spent without politicians, and yet you don't have your money because the politicians have it. so you will get your money back by... completely excluding yourself from the process that decides who decides on spending? okay. good strategy. as long as morons want something for their resume, this process of college politics will continue to proceed. disenfranchising yourself won't stop it.

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[info]fallenthursday
2007-04-12 04:27 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, but at least you won't have to vote.

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[info]antiepiphany
2007-04-12 04:30 pm UTC (link)
nobody has to vote. but that doesn't mean everybody who votes or runs is doing so for a popularity contest, okay? control over all that spending is a good reason to run/vote, i think.

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[info]fallenthursday
2007-04-12 04:40 pm UTC (link)
Well, I didn't say anything about that.

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[info]micscop
2007-04-12 11:25 am UTC (link)
Yet non-voters remain in the minority. So take the lesser of two evils and vote for someone who is MORE likely to do what they set out to do.

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[info]oliemoon
2007-04-12 10:27 pm UTC (link)
the problem is, they won't die. i'm in my fourth year at cal and i've refused to vote for that very purpose every year. unfortunately, look where apathy has gotten me-no where. on top of that, students not caring enough to bother with the asuc almost led to the sa executives stealing $22,000 last fall, in addition to a cheap attempt to impeach someone they didn't like.

so, for the first time, i voted this year. all for calserve.

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[info]gnaij
2007-04-12 08:04 am UTC (link)
You can just vote for the people with anti-ASUC platforms and people with joke candidacies who don't bother to campaign. Azadivar? And Squelch guy who promised to take all that money to Vegas?

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[info]gibsonrocks27
2007-04-12 07:11 pm UTC (link)
Thats exactly what I did.

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[info]conceptual
2007-04-14 11:07 pm UTC (link)
SO ANNOYING
GET OUT MAH DINNA

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[info]honkyplease
2007-04-12 06:51 am UTC (link)
I didn't even know there were parties. Now I know what SA and CalServe means.

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[info]catabolicmind
2007-04-12 01:43 pm UTC (link)
In my heart, SA will always stand for "Something Awful".

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[info]juba310
2007-04-12 06:30 pm UTC (link)
yeah.

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[info]okaydo
2007-04-12 07:04 am UTC (link)
Also, don't forget to vote for Sanjaya!

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[info]derringer2000
2007-04-12 07:14 am UTC (link)
Palpatine for senator

Props to whoever chalked the sidewalk outside crossroads with that the other day.

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[info]lcru17173r
2007-04-12 07:58 am UTC (link)
i saw that and immediately bursted out laughing. the people around me were giving me "WTF?" looks.

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[info]lv_somegirls
2007-04-12 08:22 am UTC (link)
i miss the Mario Party

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[info]slc_food
2007-04-12 10:05 am UTC (link)
hell yeah!

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[info]hapan605
2007-04-15 07:14 pm UTC (link)
Best. icon. ever.

And not only because my fake facebook profile is The Chairman of Kitchen Academy.

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[info]hapan605
2007-04-15 07:13 pm UTC (link)
And we miss you.

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[info]selille
2007-04-12 09:55 am UTC (link)
I was walking to my midterm, cramming on the way. If you see a person engrossed in packets while walking and wearing her PJs and glasses, would you bother her? Obviously a Student Action candidate thought it was a brilliant idea and bothered me TWICE. I rudely yelled "NO."

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[info]grievre
2007-04-12 12:16 pm UTC (link)
Vote against anyone who is currently in office, unless you see that they've done mostly awesome things.

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[info]misworded
2007-04-12 11:01 pm UTC (link)
Are non-voters really in a minority? I know that this whole process has to be democratic and thus having an election is necessary if there's going to be student politics at all, but I don't know many people who are truly informed about what these candidates are promising to do for the campus. The campus is huge and there are a lot of candidates — is it even realistic to expect that thirty thousand students are going to know who they are? Since I don't care about the ASUC, I don't seek out the information myself, and since I'm apparently sufficiently surly-looking to avoid being approached by people wanting to give me their little platform spiel, I never know who or what exactly I'm voting for. Most people I've asked about this just vote for people they know, names that sound cool, or other random criteria. If that's the case, this is more of a popularity contest than anything worthwhile. At least for me, not voting seems to be the right thing to do.

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[info]berkeleybeetle
2007-04-13 12:24 am UTC (link)
Non-voters are not a minority. Turnout was around a third last year, and that was a record high.

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[info]oliemoon
2007-04-13 07:28 am UTC (link)
even if you don't care about the candidates, there's several referendums that deal with student fees-YOUR student fees. so you might want to take a look at those.

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[info]misworded
2007-04-13 03:29 pm UTC (link)
I'm a senior, so not really.

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[info]oliemoon
2007-04-14 03:06 am UTC (link)
fair enough.

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[info]spitefulcrow
2007-04-13 07:43 am UTC (link)
can we get an addendum to this that urges people to vote down all of the referenda because they're just fucking stupid?

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[info]berkeleybeetle
2007-04-13 07:50 am UTC (link)
The ASUC used to put opinion polls on the ballot in referendum form. Check out the Daily Cal endorsements from 2002:

http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=8245

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[info]spitefulcrow
2007-04-13 07:56 am UTC (link)
Amazing.
My mind still boggles at the sheer stupidity of this year's referenda - Greek Life Referendum, anyone?
The annoying thing is that these will probably get passed, because sheeppeople are even dumber than these ballot measures.

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[info]orangefriendly
2007-04-13 11:44 pm UTC (link)
i feel like the whole ASUC is invented for people who want to go to law school so they can have student government on their resume. we may be better off without it.

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