Boo hoo our country’s flag triggers negative thoughts in my mind to the point that I feel left out and can no longer communicate.
The resolution was not that bad.
Turnout for the most recent UCI student elections can be found at the link below. Y’all feel free to carry on here but it looks like the highest vote total was a shade under 250. (No, I didn’t leave off a zero.). The B-school rep was elected unopposed with eleven votes.
That is pretty sad, SOG, but neither of the author nor the person who seconded the bill are listed in that election nor the president of the student government, so what election was that?
The administration doesn’t support it, the cabinet doesn’t support it, the student body doesn’t appear to support it, and my uci alum friend says she will stop donating in non-support.
The sensitive flag haters should get some counseling to help them through their trauma.
There was an overreaction.
Fall 2014. I also found an older newspaper article about a year when only 621 students voted. Long story short: As at many big state schools, virtually no one gives a rat’s ass about student government so it is easy for a group of Sixties wanna bes to get elected. It will be interesting to see if this negative publicity motivates more kids to run or vote in the spring elections to take out the leftists. UCI isn’t exactly a hotbed of radicalism.
Sadly, apathy seems to reign in many cases, SOG.
The students who are happy at UCI are happy there because for the most part no-one cares about this stuff at all.
Until it gets looney.
Irvine is in Orange County. I was there ten years ago and there were still Ronald Reagan banners hanging in the front windows of people’s houses. I am surprised there are a few liberal students at UCi.
When I walk through the UC Berkeley campus I barely recognize the place. I don’t remember all the booths representing religious organizations.
Looks like a fall quarter election, where half of the representatives are elected. The spring quarter has an election with the other half and the executive officers are elected (there is no election in the winter quarter). See http://www.asuci.uci.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/constitution.pdf for offices and when they are elected.
Thanks, SOG and UCB.
Well, the whole thing surely served their purpose of getting some attention. And now it has been mercifully euthanized.
People only care because it’s easy to twist the story into something it’s not. And it seems like it’s really only a certain subset of people that care as evidenced by the links that @GMTplus7 is posting. There are many people with extreme views in college campuses all over.
@warbrain, this story isn’t about banning flags; it’s about the troubling rise of speech codes on college campuses. In the past, students who were passionate about their politics engaged in debate. Now the students simply prohibit the voicing of opposing views.
http://m.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/291914731.html
I don’t see what the big deal is. So, they banned the flag (or flags.)
^ That’s a teacher talking.
Well, the chancellor sure likes ROTC! The endless connection of the U.S. flag to the war machine actually upsets me more than any flag banning or even burning.