Stories from the October 10, 2005, Print Edition
Year after year, student organizations subject themselves to the Student Association's allocations process hoping to garner enough funding to operate. While every student organization involved in this process adds its own unique aspect to campus social life, events or debate, one organization stands above all in its importance to the campus community: the Emergency Medical Response Group.
American democracy is rotting at its foundation. The efficacy of U.S. government is decaying to the point where it faces a severe crisis of legitimacy. While politicians of both parties toil in inside-the-beltway frivolity, Americans now suffer needlessly under the weight of their government's sheer ineptitude when its help is needed most.
When an enormously popular professor is inexplicably cut loose by the University after 17 years, there is bound to be a groundswell of support for him. When that professor is a sex educator who engaged his students in conversations about pubic hair and orgasms, The Hatchet is bound to write an article about him.
In an ironic twist of events, Gulf Coast Culture Day - an event created by the Student Association and Program Board to raise funds for hurricane victims - rapidly dissipated after five minutes of light rain. After weeks of planning, the legacy of Gulf Coast Culture Day is the SA's ignorance in failing to utilize the abilities of the smaller student organizations that reside toward the bottom of its budget.
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