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From Suite
One: Vote Frat Party
Spunky new party recognizes
MSA for the joke it is
Over the past year,the Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) has progressively
deteriorated. Rather than focusing on student issues, last
semester’s MSA decided to devote more effort to lifting
American sanctions on Iraq. The current version is little better.
Although the Assembly has thankfully refrained from meddling in
international politics, its agenda continues to steer towards
lunacy. In a climate where mandatory student fees might soon
cease to exist, due to a pending Supreme Court decision, MSA has
taken steps towards raising them. In a world of spiraling
educational costs, MSA has spent untold hours discussing an ill-advised
tuition freeze. As a result of this growing irrelevance to simple
student concerns, sensible MSA members have either declined to
seek re-election (Rory Diamond) or resigned outright (Alok
Agrawal).
The current election season offers no
solutions to this problem. Rather, the varies parties and
candidates play like a Twilight Zone version of CNN’s
Crossfire, “On the left here’s the Defend Affirmative
Action Party, and on the left, the Blue Party.” Nor, with
the noted exception of Rackham Rep. Josh Trapani, is there an
impressive cadre of independants running. Accordingly, we at the Review
endorse the following:
1) In the Rackham elections we give our
wholehearted endorsement to Mr. Trapani, seeking relection for
the fourth time.
2) In the other schools we hold our nose and
endorse the FRAT Party. Although we recognize the FRAT Party
neither cares nor addresses practical concerns, neither do they
suggest anything destructive. At the worst, a FRAT Party
dominated Assembly would steer towards comedy, not tragedy. On a
lighter note, we wholeheartedly endorse their idea of carving
“OSU Sucks” unto the moon. Specifically, we applaud the
fact that any such undertaking would drain resources from the
Assembly, giving MSA less money to spend on funding left-wing
student groups. 
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