11/10/2011 Update: The ODE reports the student leadership have agreed to a plan on the EMU referendum, which they will present to VP Holmes today.
11/9/2011: The UO administration is going after ASUO President Ben Eckstein because he went to the OUS board and got them to agree that UO couldn’t sell bonds repaid with student money unless students passed a referendum on the EMU renovation plans. He cancelled the referendum when VP Robin Holmes wouldn’t answer questions about how the money would be spent. Good for him.
Last year the administration went after ASUO President Amelie Rousseau because she had the nerve to ask tough questions about how VP Frances Dyke was spending student money on lobbying the legislature for armed UO cops. Good for her.
So what’s the end game? UO Matters has obtained video showing exactly what it will take to satisfy the UO administration’s definitions of appropriate student government behavior. We bring you ASUO President Greg Niedermeyer:
Did I miss something? What’s the connection between Ordonez and UO Administration?
But that’s not how it works at Penn State—and so many other institutions where football is king. Success breeds power, power breeds influence, influence breeds a bulletproof arrogance.