For those of you interested in knowing…

Last night at the SGA’s full Senate body meeting a resolution was passed to spend around $200 on coffee and doughnuts to thank the Campus Safety and Facilities Departments for their help in relocating the Girl Talk concert last Friday. I didn’t vote for it. I also didn’t vote against it, mind you, because I do think these Trinity employees deserve some recognition and thanks – they have to deal with entitled brats all of the time, from cleaning up their vomit to putting up with their attitudes when they can’t get a ride across campus. So I am glad that this is happening in a sense, but I also don’t agree with the reasoning behind it. The whole messy situation could have been avoided if TCAC had been more organized. Why didn’t the leadership of this group have a back-up plan? I’m sorry, but I don’t have any sympathy for people who can’t get their s— together. Why isn’t this money coming out of their budget? They’re the ones who stressed a lot of people out without cause. It seems silly to me that they can get away with poor judgment and a lack of foresight with no repercussions.

***Disclaimer: I may not have all of the facts. If anyone wishes to comment, please do.

 Author’s note (10/1/08): A Trinity alum e-mailed me today and said I should be more “mindful” in the future of what I write. He/she implied that the terminology “entitled brats” I used could be taken offensively. Here is basically what I replied — “I only speak the truth. There are many people that attend Trinity that I would call ‘entitled brats’ to their face. When you vomit on the bathroom floor or just leave your trash behind on the Quad with the idea in your head that you don’t have to clean up after yourself because someone else will do it for you, I feel like that is a sense of entitlement and it’s just plain brattiness. Period. I’m just being honest. That’s all. It’s not really meant to offend anyone. If the person reading this blog is not an entitled brat, they’ll know that comment is not directed towards them and not become defensive about it. I’d like to think people would agree with me that this kind of outlook on life is not one that should be praised and it also shouldn’t be denied. It exists.”

2 Comments

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  Will Yale September 30, 2008 at 12:37 pm

  Why not bring this up at the meeting? At least the the question of whether it should have come out of our budget would have been pertinent.

  -Will
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  Andrea Wise October 2, 2008 at 12:08 am

  While I understand where Krystal is coming from, the fact is that the SGA had the idea to express some appreciation to campus safety and facilities, so whether or not we agree that it should come out of our budget, had we not approved that resolution, it wouldn’t have happened. Everyone knows that the Girl Talk concert didn’t exactly run according to plan, and there were a lot of bumps along the road (far more than any of us probably has any idea) and yet in the end, the students, administration, campus safety, and facilities came together and let the show go on. Could it have been planned better? Yes. Did the world end? No.

  Honestly, I don’t think it’s a big deal. The SGA is supposed to do what’s best for the student body and in this case, it was a little weird, but our E-board did that. Besides, I don’t think it’s ever inappropriate to show some gratitude to the people who DO put up with a lot of **** from entitled brats here.