The Associated Students of Madison passed legislation Wednesday that will ""really benefit"" student council, ASM leaders said.
""ASM will be better organized and more effective thanks to this legislation,"" ASM Chair Allie Gardner told The Daily Cardinal. ""We're very excited for ASM.""
ASM representative and Student Services Finance Committee Chair Sarah Niebart said SSFC was also pleased with the new policy.
""This will save money and benefit ASM as a whole,"" Niebart said, adding after a pause, ""and it will probably help the student body, too.""
Despite positive reviews from ASM members, bitter former student representatives writing for campus blog, North Park Street, released a scathing review of the new policy.
""Alley Gardener doesn't know what she's doing, and Sarah Niburt keeps fucking shit up,"" the blog post said. ""And don't get us started on that Multiculture Student Coalition.""
Former SSFC Vice Chair and current North Park Street blogger Brandon Williams said he plans to send student council another press release ""basically telling ASM to stop fucking up, except we really mean it this time.""
But a recent campus poll found the majority of UW-Madison students ""don't give a shit what ASM does,"" according to the most common write-in response.
The Daily Cardinal tried to interview a broad sampling of the UW students to gauge campus reactions toward the new policy, but were unable to elicit a response from most students.
""Um… I don't really know,"" one senior, Ida Givanef, said. ""What's an ASM?""
