Students, do yourself a favor and vote note
o"" this week on ASM Question 16, a referendum to take more money from your pocket and funnel it to the well-paid Memorial Union administrators. The Cardinal's article ""Union workers bring Challenge to director"" (News, April 4) should help make clear that these administrators are interested in one thing-getting their hands on more of your money, but not doing anything to improve Memorial Union's services.
I work in the Memorial Union kitchen where these administrators have refused to hire and fill a vacant classified dish room worker position for nearly three years. Would you run a kitchen like that?
These fat cat administrators cry budget poverty, yet they hand themselves outrageous raises. Ask Mark Guthier, the Memorial Union director how he spent his $20,000 raise last summer. Ask some of the limited-term workers how long they have been working here for poverty wages and no benefits.
Ask the students over the next 12 years how much they enjoy paying for another understaffed, mismanaged building.
As a Memorial Union worker, I urge students to vote ""no"" on the ASM referendum for raising segregated fees for the Union.
With the subject of same-sex marriage becoming an immense issue, political action needs to be taken. Conservative politicians speak of what is best for families and believe gay marriage will ruin the institution of marriage. On Jan. 27, state Rep. Pat Haley, D-S.D., told the Aberdeen News, ""Gay marriage doesn't affect 90 percent of us. I've had people tell me it threatens the sanctity of marriage. You know what threatens the sanctity of marriage...divorce. Why not ban divorce?""
There are issues in our society that were once believed to go against family values, such as single parenting, but over time single parenting has become a prevalent family structure in our society. The government plays an active role in making laws that affect our lives, but do we want to see regulation of who we marry as one of the roles? We do not live in a society in which we have arranged marriages. We are allowed to choose who we want to marry using whatever basis we want.
We should question whether it is really the next best step in the interest of families to disallow same-sex marriages and allow government increased control over our family structure.
