Football tickets? The booster club! The list I’m on is for one of the smaller disciplines at the university. I’m still considering going to that university for grad schoo, but I’m not sure for which discipline. Thus, I’m on that e-mail list and another.
Here’s what the Aggie
had to say about it:
There is not much that is sadder than a College Republican.
I don’t know about that. I was one, and I had a great time.
On course, I concentrated on working for campaigns and chasing cute conservative girls around, and didn’t participate in any of these weird stunts.
I am tarring huge, I realize that. I was (briefly) a College Republican myself. From my perspective, it was pretty sad. We seemed mostly focused on standing up for the rights of white males on campus, and making sure that “our” side was represented against a sea of over-earnest librul causes. We talked mostly about how our work would get us great connections in the real world.
It all just seemed petty and weird, and I left.
If you can’t find enough room somewhere on the Davis campus, you’re not going to find room anywhere. Man, why do I just get all the calls for money and none of the fun stuff?
I’m disappointed in both the DCR and the protestors who denied them their freedom, thus requiring police protection to leave the area.
By the way, UCD does have a lot of space, but the main gathering place is the Quad and that’s not all that big when you take the number of students present there usually.
When I was at FSU, the Environmental Service Program (ESP) gave out organic foods for “meat free week” to promote organic foods and local grocers. In a reactionary movment, the Institute for Conservative Studies (ICS) held a “free meat” day the next week, giving out hot dogs, hamburgers, and other meat products as a sign that “proper Americans eat meat” and other such hooey. The thing is, they gave away a whole crapload of food (Wednesday = flea market day = somebody’s giving out free food and everyone takes advantage of it) to people whose mind they didn’t change. ESP may have been able to convert a handful of people to some organic products during their free food giveaway, but they did not give out nearly as much food (or at nearly as much cost to the organization) as the ICS did.
Then again, the ICS sponsored two Ann Coulter performances during my four years there. I went in silent and polite protest with the LGBTSU* to the first one and didn’t bother with the second one. (*If you add an I for intersex, you can rearrange the letters to spell big slut. Was a funny thing among my LGBT friends at the time.) There’s no guarantee that the people running these organizations are good at setting up rational events to put forth an alternative point of view.
You’re talking about west of the Student Union, right? Where all the wackos spout their non-sense?
See, I would have done it out by Mrack.
Yeah, but see, Larry is having his own problems right now.
The problem with doing it by Mrack is the “Egghead Sculpture” in front of it looks like an uncircumcised penis. Probably don’t want that on the News at Five.