S.A.’s Moratorium on Student Group Creation Much Akin to Partial Birth Abortion
An artist's depiction of the collective S.A.F.C.
Since the moratorium only lasts one semester and deadlines for starting a group and picking up and handing in the Office of Assemblies’ trusty carnelian folder have past, I guess I’m overstating with the whole abortion metaphor. There is, after all, one good thing that has come out of the resolution is the Registered Student Organization Auditing Task Force — but this should’ve been in place long, long ago, and it ought to be a permanent police force. The idea that any dumbass with two or three dumbass friends can start their own group and apply for and receive S.A.F.C. money ($204 of your/your parent’s money per year, in case you were wondering) is patently, to put it impolitely, idiotic.
Case in point: I have a certain friend who started a group called Scooby Jew. Scooby Jew is a student group for Jewish people who are interested in scuba diving. They go on trips to the Caribbean and scuba diving and pray at underwater synagogues. Why should the rest of us fund a bunch of Jews who happen to enjoy donning Self Contained Underwater Breating Apparati? Beats me. But yet they categorically received funding from the S.A.F.C. I can understand Scooby Jew being absorbed under some general Scuba Diving Club Sport Team thing called just Scooby. Or maybe Scooby Doo-ing Things Underwater. But just because you have a clever name and can fill out forms and turn them in on time does not mean you should steal some of my money to go on a nice little vacation. In fact, if you can do all those things, Scooby Jew, you should be sitting in an office figuring out how to make me more money.
I think you get the point: instead of slashing and burning the potential creation of more “ludicrously awesome” peeps like us, weed out the insufferably redundant, laughably ineffective, and frequently idiotic of Cornell’s 900 (!) total groups from spoiling the pot. Holla back in the commz, yo.
Tags: admins, ARGH ARGH ARGH, iRant, SAFC, student groups
