Cheerfully Drowning A.S. Members
Early last month, UCSB’s Associated Students, or A.S., decided to use student funds (in them midst of this exasperating UC money crisis) to pay for a retreat to Villa Antonio in Los Osos. Pretty douche-y, right?
That would, in all honesty, be all it would take to annoy me. But then, come to find out that they violated their rental contract and trashed the place.
Now, trashing a rental is tacky, immature, and annoying for the rest of the world. Annoying for the people who have to pick up after you, for the people who end up doing repairs, for the owners, and for whoever is associated with you—and in this case, it’s the entire rest of UC Santa Barbara. Taaacky and embarrassing. I mean, seriously, kids? You’re adults. Learn to pick up after yourselves. If you want to break the law, you should work on figuring out how to not get caught.
Because violating a contract, while also pretty tacky, is illegal. A.S. told Morroco Method International, who manages the villa, that there would be chaperones at the retreat, and there weren’t.
There are legal repercussions for that kind of stupidity.
And this isn’t the part that royally infuriates me. A.S. wants to use student fees to pay for their weekend of debauchery. Making the rest of us—many, many of whom are having trouble making the quarterly payments to begin with—pay for their alcohol is outrageous and personally offensive. I don’t buy close friends booze (I wouldn’t, even if I was of age), and I certainly don’t want to sponsor those idiots’ alcoholism.
A.S. racked up almost a thousand dollars worth of repairs, and now we’re supposed to tack on lawyer fees to that? I don’t think so. Furthermore, it turns out that student fees pay for executive A.S. officers’ student fees. (Does anyone else see something wrong with this whole picture?)
-
tmblrmailfor liked this
-
disturbeduniverse liked this
-
silverpolarbears posted this
