Inspired by Ed Fulton.

Tonight, Ed Fulton wrote this on the Voice Party's Wall:

Someone who made a comment on the posted Sun-Sentinel article made a great suggestion that I thought I would post.

"Perhaps they could model their departments like a corporation, and nominally reward department heads by coming in UNDER budget, instead of toeing the "government" party line of "if you don't spend it all this year, you get less next year".

What a neat idea!

I dig what he says. I think it's funny that he left out the rest of the comment (what he stated is omitted):

Perhaps the VP's and above that have 3-4 assistants (one at each campus)could get by with ONE?

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....this is an absurd policy, and I have personally seen 8 month old tech equipment get "taken away", and bigger, better flat screens...smaller lighter laptops and the like take the place of perfectly good new equipment. What happens to the old (8 months old)stuff?
Many employees with over 5 years of time in the university system COAST because they have to kill someone to get fired.
Give me a break....don't punish the students, or the teachers for that matter....start with the infrastructure!

I can understand, not wanting to piss anyone off upstairs, because some parties might say Student Affairs rigged the elections.

I've always -- for a lack of better words -- admired that revolutionary Students vs. Administration attitude that was perpetuated by some House Speakers, notably Chris Mack.

In that old spirit and, recently, inspired by Ed Fulton, here are some other quotes from the same Sun-Sentinel piece cited by Fulton:

Why are the trustees using our tax dollars at all? Why whould we pay for their trips? Its the students who matter the most, why not use the money on them, its a college after all, the students and teachers are the ones what make a school a school. Wow how much will it cost each individual member to drive to Tallahassee,$100 for gas and $100 for a one night hotel, wow, let me shed a tear for these fat cats

Yea, Why is that?

Who wants to go to this school anyway, anyone notice that FAU is in the biggest financial trouble of any state college? Their mismanagement with funds and mistreatment of students and teachers is well known and people are not coming or giving money anymore

D-D-D-Davenport ring a bell?

Great, if they consider cutting summer classes, I won't graduate until Fall 2010, instead of Spring 2009.

Me too man, Me too. How ever will Student Government save us?

I suppose they won't, even if the preamble of the SG constitution states:

We the students of the Florida Atlantic University, in order to form a Student Government, that will provide effective representation in the students’ best interests, to promote the general welfare, to ensure the continuation of self-governance, to uphold the principles of the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the State of Florida, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Florida Atlantic University Student Government.

God bless the dream...Because it's time to wake up.

But if you aren't awake and/or want to ask you SG candidates the hard questions -- you can vote, Feb. 26 and 27, on MyFau and some locations around the various campuses.