In an email sent out mere hours ago, the Association of Student Governments (ASG) has laid down the law and drawn a line in the sand for its members. Quoted in full: EOs [Executive Officers], When dealing with the media, please be sure to get clearance from Dakota [Williams] or…
A Response to the Clevinger Letter
As I am not sure when (or if) the Daily Tar Heel will publish the response I sent in to Mr. Clevinger’s Letter to the Editor, I have decided to publish my response below. As UNC’s resident Robert Novak-in-training, I read with great amusement Mr. Clevinger’s letter criticizing my recent article on…
The ASG Fights Back
The DTH published a letter today that was intended to be a response to our own Marc Seelinger’s exposé on the ASG which you can read here. Mr. Clevinger’s letter, a rambling response devoid of argument, can be summed up as a sheepish cry of “Well, Seelinger’s article may possibly…
Vindication tastes sweet
Especially for those of us who have long criticized the ASG for being an ineffective and inefficient organization. Now their oversights might cost them $5,000 and a two-year ban on lobbying activities. The story here.
ASG Takes a Very Important, Useless Trip to DC
A headline buried within the pages of today’s Daily Tar Heel caught my eye, “ASG President Visits Washington, Says Little.” The first aspect of this little adventure that I’d like to visit concerns who exactly the ASG President, Atul Bhula, and his cohort were visiting. They were visiting the Democratic…
ASG President Spouts off Against the Review
Yawn… ASG President T. Greg Doucette responded to the piece by the Pope Center for Higher Education (posted on CRDaily.com) the other day and in it, heavily criticized the Carolina Review. As the Review has long been a critic of the wasteful expenditures and general dearth of tangible results coming…