School dealings

Here is what I wrote to the UWM POST online journal.

*Back story: SUFC members are the majority group in Student Association & they have been running UW-Milwaukee since about. . . 4 or 5 years ago. They did some shady things, such as try to make it possible for the SA to sue anyone who talks against the group. The president vetoed it thankfully, but they recently tried to get us to not vote for the UC or for ASAP ( another group who were voting against them). SUFC got ASAP voted off which you can read right here. After ASAP was voted off, SUFC then tried and apparently succeeded in getting the UC off the campus. United Council is student organization that tries to make sure that all the University of Wisconsin schools are having the students speak. Read here. Anyway, this post that I made was after reading some comments that basically called people stupid assholes, and other words. Here's my response, no apologies.*

The biggest problem that I've had, since coming to this school has been from the SA. I transferred from Alverno, and as much as I've complained about the all women thing, I can give it credit for something that UWM greatly lacks- time management and compassion. Why is it that I received emails to vote NO for UC and vote for SUFC the day of the voting? At Alverno the entire campus was given warning about when things were to take place and we could plan ahead. How in the hell can the Student Association, or even other groups, expect THE PEOPLE, to come out and have their voices heard, when you purposefully withhold information?

And I was very disgusted with the posters of why people shouldn't voted for the UC. The posters that the anti-UC group talked about how we needed to save the 4 dollars to help the groups, how our money was going to pay the UC's director's school loans ( Which I believe would have been slander because it was untrue), and talked without having any actual facts to it. A woman actually hounded my friend to vote no, because as she said," The 4 dollars could have gone to your LGBT center, links and women's resource center." Which struck me as odd, because SUFC could have easily not cut funds to any of these groups, but that is not my main complaint. My main complaint with that election was the fact that the anti-UC group used scare tactics and it worked. As one of the big UW schools, we the students, should have more say in how things should be run in this school. I am not taking out loans for 10 grand a year, to have someone tell me how I should feel and react as a student. I am not paying these segregation fees, TO NOT BE able to go to conferences and say, "I'm a Junior in college and I'm taking out loans because Mommy and Daddy aren't paying for me." I am an actual student and damn it, I deserve to be heard.