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| Authored by: Erick on Monday, March 28 2005 @ 01:45 PM CST |
If we step back and look at the whole situation we can clearly see that Brandon Sweet (Chief Referendum Officer) is at the heart of a corruption scandal in the FEDS.
His decision to cancel the referendum is clearly in favour of the No Committee. WPIRG is the only club on campus that receives $150,000 from the students each year and has no impact on the student body at the University of Waterloo. The imprint informs the student body of events at the School. Every large institution in the world has a forum for information. Waterloo Radio has the same effect, but to a smaller degree. WEEF (for engineers) buys lab equipment computer labs including the one am in right now. WPIRG runs and participates in many groups that have heavy political intonations.
The argument that the FEDS presented was that we must address the bigger issue of refundable fees and determine how they are established. They are wrong. The issue at hand here is favouring one club over the others and WPIRG is the only club that is favoured. Laurier University has a PIRG and they are able to sustain it without levies on the students. Perhaps there are better, more motivated and intelligent people in the Laurier PIRG and so they don't need to rely on student levies.
The Yes team was disqualified because they posted ONE of their posters over a No team poster. An unbias individual photographed the same event perpetrated by the No Team and sent this photo to Brandon Sweet who ignored it. So clearly both teams commited the same 'crime' and yet the decision of Brandon Sweet was clearly in favour of the No team.
Whatever the reason, it is clear from the FEDS council vote to support the 'NO' team and this subsequent decision to cancel the referendum clearly indicates that Brandon Sweet and the FEDS council are not interested in fairness and equality, but instead they would prefer to abuse their positions of authority to help out their friends in the WPIRG club.
I find it funny that so many of the WPIRG No posters preached about equality in some far away place, but when they are required to practice it here in The University of Waterloo, they fall short. This situation is reminiscient of an election I endured in Zanzibar off the coast of Tanzania last year. The election was declared before people even finished voting. Brandon Sweet, I think Paul Martin may have a position ready for you in the Federal cabinet.[ Parent ]
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