No one wants to be in SA; rules deflate senators' egos

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Posted: 11/18/05

Jeer: FOX has announced its plans to pull "Arrested Development" during November sweeps to the chagrin of anyone who has time to watch television and the people who would watch "Arrested Development" if they had time to watch television. What is the matter with these people who have Nielsen boxes? Instead of watching the funniest show on television, they're all probably watching "America's Next Top Model."

Cheer: Students and faculty are working together to take a step forward in diversity at Syracuse University. A group of students, including some from the group Asian Students in America, are working with faculty and administrators to set up an Asian-American studies program at SU. This kind of program has been a long time coming, though there wasn't enough interest when it was first suggested in 1997. It's a great sign for the university that students are interested now in an Asian-American studies major or minor and that faculty and administrators are backing the plan.

Cheer: Just when it seemed like no one in the university was going to step up and run for Student Association comptroller, sophomore Chris Ruckert and junior Michael Brannen sucked it up and put their names in the running. SA has struggled in recent years to find students to fill up its Assembly seats. It's too bad, though, that its irrelevance has progressed to the point where no one even wants one of the top SA positions either.

Cheer: The rules have prevailed! Well, at least in the case of Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. In a ridiculous display of egotism, these wily fellas tried to name two Centers for Disease Control and Prevention buildings after themselves. Specter is the chairman of the subcommittee that oversees the naming of the buildings and Harkin is the ranking Democrat. Fortunately for everyone in America - and maybe even the world - official House of Representatives rules prohibit public works being named after someone who is currently serving in Congress. But, hey, at least these guys didn't build a wall in their own honor.