Hey Kulawick-

Shove it! MSA spent no money protesting any GOP event (you're really not that important) even though you invited Walid Shoebat to come and tell Muslim students that they are fake Muslims, not "real Muslims" like Al Qaeda.

Also, the only thing MSA has really done to criticize Israel in the last four years is pay Norman Finkelstein $800 + airfare (a paltry sum compared to the five figure invites of the GOP) to speak about Palestinian rights.

In summary, the first item on your MSA bashing list is false (no budget money spent) and the last two are in fact the same!

You're a hack. Please stop wasting ink.

PS- MSA has spent an equal amount of money to the Finkelstein event over the last several years cosponsoring events w/ LionPAC.

Yes, that happens too.

It's not even worth it.

Republicans (or lolbertarians), especially Kuwalik, don't live in our reality because it has a well-known liberal bias. They're lost causes, and if I believed in violence they would all be long dead for being failures in every conceivable meaning of the word.

That's not to say I hate them, I just think they help to ruin the world, and generally live ignorant, boring, stupid lives. They deserve our pity if they deserve any time in our thoughts at all. You however, seem like an individual would listen to facts and pleas, so you're more than worth the time.

Disrupting a campus GOP event is far more cooler than any campus GOP event by itself. ISO certainly deserves the money it gets on that count.

I like events that are far more cooler than GOP events as well.

It's so nice that "teh internets" prevents you guys from shouting down the non-radical dissenter on campus in an organized, ordered and legible fashion. Please try this out in-person the next time you all show up to blitzkrieg the next Republican bake sale.

"Since then, the University has made no further announcements about financial aid reforms."

I.e., Since then, the University has been patiently awaiting the soon-to-be regrettable demise of John Kluge. :-\

We live ignorant, boring, stupid lives? Our politics don't form as large a part of our life as yours do. We have our beliefs and are, generally, happy to keep quiet about them. We're not the ones running protests, handing out leaflets, and obsessing over the presidential elections. Want to talk about a boring life? I can't imagine a life more boring than one spent screaming "Yes we can!" at some ridiculous hope rally.

how about offering something that begins to approach reasonable financial aid (like a paltry 50% of tuition for high achievers) for gs students before getting worried about offering further support to those who can afford to spend >$100k on private high school?

as it stands there are folks in gs who pull 3.8+ gpas and still end up with crushing, crushing debt loads.

say what you will about the gs admissions process, if someone achieves above the average while they're here then they deserve financial support every bit as much as someone who is here due to exemplary achievement in high school...

hasn't the administration made it clear to you all, no one cares about GS. you guys don't donate money so you don't get money. columbia is competing with other ivy league colleges, not their bastard adult undergrad programs. and this school does not advocate any merit aid. hth.

I've got no dog in this fight, but it appears that at least GS alumn come speak to the school (Dean and Gravel) unlike CC alumn (Obama).

said, I'm pretty sure the only member of the Conservatives is Chris Kulawik.

give out defenses for its budget numbers?

Can you defend Hillel getting gazillions of dollars?

OR MSA? OR Veritas? OR ISO?

Arjun, please publish your decisions on everything.

Thanks!

Yo gimme some cash.

with your other responses (not to mention including the MSA in his article was laughable on the part of the author) but the 'funding for the campaign trip wasn't illegal' explanation isn't an explanation. You're just stating your belief.

I think most of that article is junk (though i suspect the republicans will ask for a much bigger budget now) but the funding of something which was undeniably advertised and known to be a partisan campaign trip (it was not advertised as a 'watch democracy in action' trip as you can see from bwog reporting or the dems site) is certainly dubious.

Do you actually have any substantive explanation of why it wasn't a contribution without having to use a creative defense?

This isn't even an issue of being partisan on one side--even if you were to say 'well we'd cosponsor a republican trip too' it would be illegal because the entire point is making no political donations in order to retain tax emempt status. The IRS is actually very strict about these types of things.

chris kulawik is so sad that everyone hates him...he just forgets that he and his mafia hold all power and resources

and if you're still a republican, you're beyond help. you officially live in Socrates' Cave, and I hope you one day realize how much pain and suffering you have wrought on innocent people in the US and around the world.

Not all Republicans are neocons or even Bush supporters, by the way. I assume that if you're so enlightened, you could at least figure that out.

Anyway, Kulawik may not be completely right, but it does strike me as odd that the ISO receives more money than the College Republicans and Campus Conservatives combined. Those people are radical extremists who do nothing but stir up discord.

that the world is wholly contained in the cities of san francisco and nyc

otherwise who knows what type of harsh realities you might have to deal with

for all the retarded things kulawik says and does, in jon stewart's words, you are in actuality the person who is 'hurting america'

Most of the world outside of San Francisco is made of dirt and corn.

columbia has traditionally screwed over transfer students on financial aid. i'd be willing to bet they screwed obama over just as much as they screw over gs students today.

he seems to keep fairly mum on his time at columbia. probably because he harbors resentment over getting screwed financially. i know that if i were ever in such a position, i would acknowledge, but downplay my association with such an institution...

so check it out, if obama were at occidental today, and wanted to transfer to columbia. guess which undergraduate school he would be in? yup. the bastard adult school.

that was an awesome response. It amazes me that Kulawik can look at numbers in SGA's report and, based on nothing else, claim that SGA is a group of conservative-hating hippies. that's pretty much the height of disingenousness. He MUST know that SGA budget allocations are based on something other than pure partisanship. If he's as involved in conservative groups as he claims, he'd have some sense of how budget requests are made, and thus would know that the Republicans had received exactly as much money as they requsted. If he has no clue about SGA processes or his pet groups' involvement in them, then he's just sadly out of the loop and is doing nothing more than wasting Spec space. Either option is totally sad.

And what is the point of degrading well-meaning and well-acting groups like SEEJ? They actually get good shit done, and he's bitching.

Figuring out budget processes is not fun, but I've never found that SGA is anythingo other than responsive to a group's needs, and this despite the fact that the purse it controls is not exactly brimming.

has built his lead on the backs of those backwards hicks' states!

Just to clarify:

SGA=Student Government Association (Barnard Student Council)

SGB=Student Governing Board (governing board in charge of activist, political, religious, and humanitarian groups)

Did Bwog delete this when someone on SGB made comments that they should not have made?

I love how nobody cares how the real crux of Kulawik's article is that Columbia most likely violated federal tax and election law.

Can't wait to graduate from this hellhole.

agreed.

if you're going to make claims about inequality, you need to first state what you think is reasonable, then show that you attempted and failed to get what you thought was reasonable and finally show that others unfairly got something reasonable or perhaps more when you didn't. otherwise it's just a bunch of ridiculous hand waving.

No, I had that comment redacted; the board will be issuing a full response in the Spec/Bwog.

BWOG- WTF?

You can't just let officials un-say statements they made about their offices???? Arjun is SGB Treasurer. He made a statement, probably one where he breached his obligation to the groups he's elected to represent. It was possibly unethical. And so, when he releases this was the inappropriate forum for his potentially inappropriate response, you just let him un-say it?

YOU CAN'T LET OFFICIALS UNSAY THINGS ABOUT THEIR OFFICES!

Is Arjun sleeping with a bwogger? Are bwoggers and arjun in the same secret society? Is there a cosponsorship for B+W in this? An interview? Exclusive rights to breaking news before Spec? Does he intimidate you?

I must say Bwog- WTF?

yes, the secret societies are actually really really sketch. honestly i dont understand how people with lefty or liberal pretensions - of which there are several involved - tolerate it.

Anything dealing w/ secret societies gets deleted?

Are Arjun and Jessie somehow protected peoples?

WTF Bwog, WTF?

Arjun's comment was deleted because he asked us to do so.

It's Bwog policy to delete any comment at the request of its writer—provided that we can verify that the comment writer is the same person asking us to delete the comment.

Relax. I redacted my comment because it's more appropriate for the board to issue a formal response than for me to state my views here. I don't think there was anything compromising in what I said, and everything I noted will be mentioned in our statement.

As you, #29, and #31 demonstrated, the Bwog Comments section is not the classiest place to address SGB concerns. We owe Chris a better form of response, and he will get one.

budget did the Dems request vs. what they got?

Since you were so willing out out CUCR's numbers, surely you won't hesitate to provide a justification for the Dems? Or the Pros? Or non-existent AD HOC getting $800?!?!

Face it, Arjun threw Kulawick and conservatives under the bus by releasing numbers on them that he shouldn't have. Or that are at least not available for every group. Now Bwog has deleted this gaff. Would you have deleted George Allen's "Macaca" too because the speaker wanted it deleted?

of course not! bwog is actually a front for the "new american left." a vast left wing conspiracy that aims to infiltrate and destroy every institution you hold dear.

ad-hoc is actually a secret group of guerilla leftists who have been funded on a secret mission, sent straight into the heartland with hundreds of grams of ecstacy, government issued condoms and a mandate to turn all your sons and daughters gay.

The club funding is based on how many members the club has and how many/how expensive events the club has. Ie if there are 500 Republicans but only 20 joint the Republicans club, and only 50 socialists but 45 join the Socialists group, then the Socialists group has more members, even though there are more Republicans on campus. People who share generally share your group's ideology but don't attend meetings or events don't result in your group getting more funds. If the Socialists put on more events than the Republicans, then they get more money. As long as the events are legal, then the SGB shouldn't, and doesn't, judge the validity of the events.

Also Hillel has a ton of $ and if you judge MSA's events as political, there is no way you can avoid the same argument about Hillel's events being political.

the reason why people have spent so much time protesting Republicans is because they are WHACK-ASS MOTHER FUCKERS.

I don't remember the exact number, but we requested a substantially larger budget than what this year's board received. I'm fairly sure that this years Dems budget is smaller than that of last year and two years ago...

The logic of that essay made my head explode.