in college? read this please

[Sculli]

Alright, so I am taking a couple classes this semester, and I am standing in line at the campus coffee shop with some co-workers (I work on campus as well) and bitch about all the fees students have to pay these days, such as the $35 student government fee per semester. My point being that students get nothing for the $35 they pay.

The guy in front of me turns around and is like "well actually the student government fee pays for the student newspaper and student run radio station", and I am like "yeah, whatever, no one listens to the radio anyway, and the newspaper is cool but besides that the student government sucks".

Well to make a long story short, I was asked to come up with things that student should get for their money. All of a sudden it became clear that it was easier to just bitch about that they don't do anything than to come with something useful they should be spending the money on.

So, if you are in college, and you are happy with what your student government does for you, send me a link to their web page please, I could use some ideas. I am just too disconnected from real student life (as in being young, living in dorms, etc), to know what students really want. For all I care I'd rather not pay the fee and just be done with it.

 

[Zylia]

My student government is also lame. Our President gets arrested and pretty much gets away with it because UniPolice are knotted in with the normal police and most of his buddies. Our fee is only $15 (at least im kinda sure it is...) but I know exactly how you feel. Theres nothing spectacular they do with the fee, but heres a few things:

-Clinics
-Tournaments
-Guest speakers
-Weekend-getaways at a lower cost (like trips to sports games and stuff)
-Awareness days (They typically give out free condoms. other than that... like... notta.. haha)
-Entertainment (local bands and crap i think was included in this...)

few things, not alot, nothing im particularly interested in....
I'd rather just not pay the fee... I pay a resident fee as well so that I can use the gym. Another $15 wasted lol

 

[Trippyhippy]

Screw the student government, I'd be bitchin because your student Radio Station sucks.

I live about 15 minutes away from the campus of University of Tennessee, and the radio station is a damn good one.

They will play anything that you would never hear on a pop station.

When Johnny Cash Died, they played 1 song for every year that he was alive, it was about 5 hours of commercial Free Johnny Cash Music. The Country tation in town didn't even mention it.

Friday nights, they play death metal for like 5 hours. Slayer, Pantera, Acid Bath, Cradle of Filth, that type of thing.

Every once in a while you can turn it over there and hear something like Melissa Ethridge doin a cover of Tom Pettys "Live like a Refugee" or Flaming lips doing "Tangerines". Just odd music that is good but never gets airtime.

 

[Rones]

For all I care I'd rather not pay the fee and just be done with it.

The reason you can't think of anything is because there is nothing good for them to spend the money on. We would be better off without the few and whatever silly programs and activites they would waste the money on. Our student government does nothing with it either. We need a school government that will lower taxes.