Thursday, April 2, 2009

Students First: Politically motivated, grammatically inept

I finally found the platform for the Students First slate! They look like they have a rock solid platform. Here are two of their goals:

Making sure students in the res halls know their rights (Resident hall students are traditionally unaware that they have the right to free speech, own firearms [in theory] and to remain silent after arrested. For some reason, the residents in my hall thought they had the right to keep illegal drugs in their room too. Perhaps Students First will educate them if elected.)

Daily pressreleases to the Daily Emerald (Hopefully they do not use whoever set up their facebook group. 'Press release' is two words, not one. And by the way, sending press releases to a news outlet every single day is the best way to get ignored by them. The best way to keep the media involved: do things that are actually relevant to students.)

Supporters and potential supporters of the Students First slate will enjoy deciphering cryptic campaign promises (making the UO environmentally and fiscally sustainable) and dramatic political statements ("Students First embraces the differences that allow the ASUO to have only one bias: students.") However, supporters will have to deal with the slate's inability to use the English language and grammar to properly and effectively communicate (from the slate's poster: "Creating practical policies... not personal crusades").


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