A Lil Trip Through Da "Programs" Portion of da ASUC Budget

Hello again chums. time to take a lil pleasant ride through da pork fest known as da 2005 ASUC "Programs" Budget. I've assembled a vewy nice lil list of items for us to perouse =)

Remember daT dis is only one part of dere budget.... dis section accounts for about 15% of da monies dey spend. i decided to start out wiT da small pork programs and work my way up to da real giveaways in subsequent posts. dose will examine da oter areas of da AUSC budget.

Intellectual and Social Community Fund $8,901.

WTF is dis fund? where does it go? who receives dis money? WTF does dis fund do? does any1 fukin know? da answer is no one has a fukin clue lolz. 9k of ur money wasted on who knows wut. can any1 say pork money for well connected insiders...

Executive Officer Leadership Institute $1500

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Educational Enhancement $4,076.75

can any1 say pork spending? dis money gets spent on food and shiT. once again it goes to well connected insiders...

Undergraduate Student Mentorship $5,000
how many of u have benefited from dis? dis is pork money for connected insiders...

Academic Oppurtunities $20,000

same question as before... dis is pork money for connected insiders.

Greek Philanthropy Fund $10,000

hehe. dis fund is so sleazeball daT it is not even worth explaining. =)

Cal Corps $28,000

so we got... Office of External Affairs with 14k funding... we have UCSA which gets 25k.... we have oter offices in da budget dedicated to lobbying....

STUDENT FEES KEEP ON INCREASING. so for da pleasure of having the regents laf at us more and raise our fees dey spend another 28k of ur moneys. =(

ASUC Lobby Corps $7000

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City Affairs and lobbying bullshit $4000

we alrdy have 2 student commisiones on da rent board daT get paid by da city. dey cant lobby for us? wut is dis 4k for?

Superb $130,000

finally a student group daT aims at all students..... prob is dey waste lots of money. dey spent 60k on daT comedy show last year. any of u go to it? da only good ting dey do is put on feature films a couple times a year. but dey need 130k for daT? =/

Grand Total Around $220,000... how much of it is put to good use and accessible to ALL students? mebbe 5-10k from dose movie premieres. everyting else is a waste of ur money!!!

chums, gents its time to smashT da ASUC. get rdy to sign dose petitions on sproul to put dis on da ballot.