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onefixedstar ([personal profile] onefixedstar) wrote2003-10-04 02:46 pm
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Student government

I haven't figured out yet if relations between faculty and students are truly that much more acrimonious here than at my previous department, or if it's just a few domineering faculty and a few bitter students, but we were regaled with more stories at yesterday's Graduate Sociology Student Association meeting. The stories involved such weird occurences as a top secret meeting at which a rules was passed to prevent the grad student rep from speaking at faculty meetings (apparently this failed because some of the faculty were a bit irritated at being excluded from the top secret meeting, and a few even throught that the graduate students ought to have speaking rights). The most recent rumour says that in response to the top secret external review conducted last year, the department is going to take away some Ph.D. student offices and use them for...something. RA space, possibly. I've decided to ease into the politics gradually. I signed up as the liasion to the Graduate Student Union, which I'm told mostly involves forwarding email. That ought to give me a chance to see how things work before being thrown in the middle of them.

I think this afternoon, I'll bake muffins. And shop for a lightbulb.
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[identity profile] steninja.livejournal.com 2003-10-04 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
muffins! Those yummy orange chocolate chip ones? Freeze me some! :D

Don't get mixed up in bad politics! Never a good idea! I hate politics like that. Bah! Being liason does allow you to figure out what is going on though, which is good.

[identity profile] semiotic-trader.livejournal.com 2003-10-04 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, muffins sound good. I don't think I've tried orange chocolate chip ones, though... ? As for me, I baked maple-pecan sticky bars today!

[identity profile] steninja.livejournal.com 2003-10-04 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Freeze me some of those too! :D

[identity profile] semiotic-trader.livejournal.com 2003-10-04 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Not likely! ::snerk::

[identity profile] onefixedstar.livejournal.com 2003-10-04 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that a hint for the recipe, or at attempt to mock the idea of orange chocolate? ;)

[identity profile] semiotic-trader.livejournal.com 2003-10-04 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't dream of mocking orange chocolate! It was a hint for the recipe...

[identity profile] onefixedstar.livejournal.com 2003-10-04 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
In that case, check your email. :)

[identity profile] onefixedstar.livejournal.com 2003-10-04 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup, orange-chocolate chip ones. I'll freeze one for you and bring it over on Thanksgiving, okay? :)

[identity profile] steninja.livejournal.com 2003-10-04 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
whoo hoo

[identity profile] stillvisions.livejournal.com 2003-10-04 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I've stayed away from student/faculty politics completely, since much it seems to be looking for a fight in many cases for the sake of having a fight, which isn't that surprising since someone with an axe to grind with the department often ends up being acclaimed into a position (being the only one interested).

[identity profile] onefixedstar.livejournal.com 2003-10-05 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not trying to get involved in student/faculty politics, but I do think I have a civic duty to fulfill within the department. If no one steps foward to claim the positions (i.e. the grad student rep on the graduate curriculum committee), then the department will be quite justified when it removes our right to speak up about issues that affect us.
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