THE TULANE HULLABALOO I OCTOBER 25, 1996 I VIEWPOINT 11 The Last Word °ORIAL ASB amendment a st~p An inquiry into utter self-righteousness It was with elation and a stab of guilt takes the dogs for a walk and the kids for inanities. in the right direction; and fear that I quit my retail job three weeks ago. After a frightening six years of counting sweaty money, stocking a swim, cooks dinner and then hits the books for an exam in post-graduate Biochemical Analysis. He can match I'm sick of overhearing people make fun of the grut of TUPD officers. I'm sick of watching annoyed colleagues plunk ·2/3 amendment should shelves monosyllables to and speaking in sullen A Swi''tly wits in a debate· a b o u president i a I change down in front of a clerk, too superior to make hand contact or to say "Thank you." I'm sick of people who follow cu tomers, I am done; I have been transported to the '.!' Tilting Planet candidates or the phi 1o sop hi cal implications of cannot pick up their own trays in the University Center cafeteria and who cannot make conversation with the Dilbertian world NICOLE M. third-trimester Korean clerk at the bookstore. After years of complaints, the Associated Student Body of memos. GELINAS abortion, but at I'm getting my education; I'm rising meetings and the end of the day above the unwashed. Someday I'm going Senate has taken a giant leap toward better representing p e r so n a li z e d he can go to bed to have a nice car and privileged children the student body. By passing a bill that takes votes away screen savers. I knowing he and stock options. I can talk your talk from vice presidents and council heads, the voting now have my own desk, my own phone risked his life to save someone else's. and mock your mock, but sometimes I and, the coup of modem technocracy. my But such people are rare. People are want to shove it right back in your face. members of the senate would be strictly proportional to own voice mail. petty, pretentious and mean. People take Your Ph.D.s and summer internships and the students of the schools that elected them. I tell myself that I am making money education and good fortune and twist it Junior Years Abroad don't impress me. and learning important stuff; I am not around. using it to exude You can preach to a class developing intractable bourgeois superiority over those about social class or With regards to the voting powers of the council heads, sensibilities or becoming "one of them." who wear uniforms and heatedly discuss the fate it is a simple case of double representation. The members I have not cut the ties to ID) last links to don't speak proper of. the poor over lunch, of student organizations do not need a separate vote in the the working class. I am not a sellout. I am, however. disgusted with the English. People equate textbook knowledge with Screw you all but could you endure running a cash register or senate. since they• already have college senators to mentalities of students and professors intelligence and use it to and your pumping gas for eight represent their interests. The very existence of this power here. I didn't expect college to be an deride the conversation hours a day? So your dad dilutes the significance of each senator's seat. unending deluge of idiotic wit and. ''Oh, · of the streetcar driver or ability to designs computers; can he give CPR or run half a I spent a month at a writing retreat in the to look down upon the Catskills; it was wonderful.·· pizza man. conjugate mile in a 200-pound Questions have been raised as to whether this bill was I didn't expect that teachers would A good many liberal protective suit? Screw proposed in good faith. With tempers still flaring and speak derisively about the clerk at Wal- arts professors here: are French verbs. you all and your ability to Mart or tell me after class that surely I just overgrown students appreciate obscure tensions high in light of the still immanent graduate am "too smart" to have ambitions of with dashed ambitions of literature and conjugate secession issue. many have questioned the motivations of being a pohce officer or a print reporter changing the world. who French verbs. A college those who have proposed the elimination of the votes. I expected intelligence, not credentials. view their pupils as their degree without a I have always assumed that other only outlet through which to promulgate modicum of intelligence is worthless. Without otes from the council heads and vice presidents, people were like my dad, who runs into their stupid. ironic viewpoints and graduate students will have a slight majority and if they burning buildings to save people. useless. tired philosophies. Students Nicole M. Gelinas is a hypocritical, should o choose. could follow through with the proposal supenises the detonation of bombs and dutifully take diligent notes and willingly hypercritical Newcomb College scrapes the grout of bloody bodies from turn over their collective futures with sophomore. Visit Cybernicole at to ecede. This would be a travesty, especially considering between train tracks. He comes home $90.000 to be handed back in the form of http://studentweb.tulane.edu/-ngelina. that the primary concern for the graduates was the unequal blackened and smelling of fire. showers, parroted pretensions and insightful representation. an antiquated concern after the extraneous votes have been removed. This debate does bring up another hole in the curr_ ent system. As it stand . a simple majority is sufficient to forever change the structure of the ASB, i.e. only one vote over 50 percent is necessary for a constitutional amendment. There is a proposed amendment, which has risen out of all this. that would change the minimum to a 2/3 vote. l ot only is this necessary by virtue of sheer common sense~ pas age would also serve as a testament of goodwill from the graduate senators who now enjoy that one important extra vote. Therefore. the Hullabaloo recommends that ASB senators vote in favor of the 2/3 amendment. It was good to see such an overwhelming majority rally behind one good idea: it would be nice to see that happen for another. ---- - ~ -~- ---- Pleaee pueh for Ice. SorTY. no refllte. ~II you pay the char~ 01.-er allowance caeh or creaft1 le tt juet ~ or le It eett'ne more anti more dtffic"'ul-t to e~ food aroun.::i here. E~ ti~ it eoeeme like I have another ~n. another one dleappeare. ~er happened to the No. 4 anti No. 7 In the Rat? Md I like the No. 1, but add cheeee to the frle6 anti ft'6 a No. 5 anti a l:>ucl-flfty more. Doee anytiody know Miere they're ~ne that chuee from anti If eo, are they ta~ne lnveetore7 I clott't know, M 111 etlll ta~ the three for a ~llar deal any day. Not on breaa alone ehall man eul;>eiet, l;>ut thoee ccoklee a li:EAL eaod· A ALO{) Lisa D'Antoni Lou Jeansonne Scott McKinley HULIJ B Volume LXXXVII TheTulane Issue 7 News Associate Editor Phil Olaya ...... ........... Editor Business Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Comeaux ... Business Manager Personnel Managing Editor ---------t Jodi Rintelman .........................Director Elina Liu .................... Assistant Director Rob Leitner ........ Associate Editor Jennifer Wollfarth ..... Advertising Mgr. The Tulane Hullabaloo Advertising (504) 865-5656 Lisa Usdan ......... Assistant Editor Lauren Phillips ...... 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