October 31, 2007
ASUM Bureaucrat betraying students
In a recent Guest Column (titled “Kaimin harming students’ interests"), Sen. Sean Morrison, a well-known B.U.T. (bureaucrat under training) made the ridiculous statement that the Kaimin “threatened the interests of students” by publishing an article that made the B.U.T.s and their allies look bad (for what was obviously a screw-up of epic proportions). Now don’t get me wrong, I support UM Productions and their continued ability to have a student-run organization that provides entertainment to our community. Unfortunately for Mr. Morrison, what I don’t support is incompetence. If someone makes a mistake, they are to take responsibility for that mistake, admit it, and correct it. While UM Productions is not entirely to blame for them Elton John ticketing debacle, it does bare some responsibility in this matter and should be hounded until the issue is fixed.
Now if one were to believe Mr. Morrison, this is a private issue that the campus community has no right to even know about. Well-spoken Mr. Morrison, once you complete your bureaucrat training in ASUM, you’ll be well suited for a nice cushy job in the 24 percent approval U.S. Congress where you can waste taxpayer money. In fact, your B.U.T. training has gone so well that you’re even already adept at attempting to silence the press when something you don’t like gets published. You do realize that students are also forced to pay an “involuntary fee” to your organizations? By trying to silence our sole source of information regarding our own mini-bureaucracy, not only are you harming our interests, but you are setting yourself on a path that leads in to a head-on collision with the Constitution. Something all B.U.T.s would be wise to avoid.
P.S. In an article published September 6th, 2007 in the Kaimin ("ASUM endorses World AIDS Day"), a perhaps once wiser man said “I would never tell the Kaimin what to report.” Take a guess who said that? That’s right, ASUM Sen. Sean Morrison. There are real issues on this campus that this senate and this administration have promised to fix and yet failed to do so. Sadly, instead of resolving these issues, we are fighting over what a newspaper can and/or should publish. Attack the issues Mr. Morrison, not the press.
Ryan Stevens
sophomore, undeclared
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