It's an odd one. I'm a junior at KU, and an active member of Student Senate. We're responsible for everything related to student fees (not tuition, but everything else), and we allocate that money to different groups and projects. Essentially, we are the ones who give student groups the means to operate. There's one guy, a grad student, who has a bad habit of selective hearing, and will often criticize bills written to fund groups based on things that we've already addressed and clarified to everyone else in the room. Anyway, aside from that, there was a long debate last night over a particular fund, one which involves about $60k of student money, that the committee which he sits on is unhappy that they have no control over. They have caused all sorts of havoc about this, and have basically denied money to certain groups, people who have nothing to do with the conflict, to spite the people who control that fund (it's a board which I am a non-voting member of), and this one guy has led the charge. There was a meeting last night, in which we tried to put forth a compromise with them, going off of a plan which this irritant had proposed to us himself, and he still complained about it. I spent about two hours arguing what should have been a quick and easy subject that was designed to help people with a pompous ass and a few of his friends whose only complaint was they, an unrelated committee, did not have any oversight over something.
So, I left in a very irritated mood, wondering why it is that I bother, when I know full well that something like a student government is going to have plenty of hacks like this, got a bit drunk, and started this thread. And then Wilhelm made fun of me.
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