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Free iPad if You Read This1
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Recently, the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Senate sent out a survey asking students about their preferred method of hearing about all news ASPC-related, the results of which were discussed during last week’s meeting. Overall, surveyed students said they would rather receive e-mails than have to check the ASPC Facebook page for ASPC news, and in general they did not want to get ASPC news via the official ASPC Twitter account2. The only problem with the survey was that only 43 students3 responded to it, which might have (definitely) been a skewed sample. The sample pool became even more questionable when Commissioner of Clubs and Sports Emma Wolfarth PO ’14 revealed that she had tricked her Facebook friends and Chirps! readers into taking the online survey by offering the chance to win a free iPad that, in fact, did not exist. There’s some news you won’t find on the ASPC Facebook page.
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1This is a lie.
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2Contrary to popular belief, this is NOT @NotASPCSenate.
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3If you Pomona kids first thought, “Wow! So close!” when you read that, you need to reexamine some priorities.
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A Brief Brief
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A few meetings back, there was a subcommittee formed to propose amendments to Senate’s bylaws to fix problematic voting rules that currently exist. They have not had the chance to meet. The voting rules are still problematic. The end.
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Divestment Talks: Part 2 of 973
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Last week (or something), representatives from the 5C Divestment Team visited Senate to request that the ASPC do something1 to pressure the Pomona administration to divest their funds from fossil-fuel corporations. Recently, the Pitzer College student government drafted and passed a resolution urging Pitzer to divest. In this week’s meeting, senators discussed the Pitzer resolution and what the ASPC Senate could do along those same lines.
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5C Divestment Team representatives Patrick Pelegri-O’Day PO ’15 and Kai Orans PO ’14, along with Commissioner of Environmental Affairs Lena Connor PO ’13, presented a ton of useful information about where the college’s investments are, what a resolution from Senate could do to push the college toward divesting, and how Senate could go around drafting a resolution. After roughly 46 minutes2 of oddly beautiful circular reasoning, Senate was able to come to the classic conclusion of coming to a conclusion about the issue later. Wolfarth accidentally made a great point not just about divestment but about the philosophy of student government in general when she stated the rationale behind her reluctance to vote on a resolution:
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“It’s something that if we’re going to represent the whole student body, I don’t see us as a group as being an unbiased, good representative of the student body that can vote for something and really represent their opinion.”3
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Not surprising anyone, save the divestment team reps who had never witnessed a Senate discussion before, Senate voted about how people would vote on the vote about divestment. To be fair, I might have added a layer of voting in that, but the point is, well, there is no point, I guess …
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1 Anything, really.
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2 Pomona. We get it. Cut. It. Out.
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3Fun activity: Replace “It” and “something” in that statement with basically any issue and you have a pretty accurate description of the ASPC Senate …