RPG arrived at the station at exactly 5:15PM and listened in to the last minutes of the Coleman interview. He was confident throughout the interview, never stumbled, never hesitated and rarely went around a question. The 30 minute interview touches mainly on his platform.He did express a lot of interest in having a referendum put to students on an adhesion to CFS, expressed a strong desire to allow students to opt-out of the eventual U-Pass, felt that salaries did little to ensure qualified individuals (gave the example of Enron) and that if anything, we should have people who do it for the common good. RPG also went on at length about having more checks and balances at the SFUO to allow interested students to have a say throughout the year, not just during the elections.
As the interview went on, many people from the station kept stopping by to see who was talking. Tune in and you will know why.
Also, many have expressed a desire to contact Renaud directly. I asked him permission to publish his email, and it was granted: renaudgarner@hotmail.com
He told me he would respond to every email he receives.
Photo courtesy of Jason Chiu. The SFUO2 Blog™ exclusive.
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Although there are examples of overpaid executives being corrupt, if companies were not paying their executives enough to keep them there they would go elsewhere.
It is a weak strawman fallacy, and he is preying on the pop-culture reference in the hopes that people will just hear "Enron" and instantly agree with him because, in this particular case, it is a highly polarizing event.
The common good is all well and good, but this is the obvious position of a philosopher and not a politician or someone who even has a job.
It is a fulltime job. They should be paid a fulltime salary. And, for a student who should be qualified, making 30,000$ a year is NOT something to be proud of or can help a student support themselves and save money...
Idealism is great on paper...
Malheureusement j'ai été déçu par la rhétorique de RPG. L'utilisation de sophismes, les parallèles quasi ridicules n'ont pas très bien passé en moi. Les personnes exerçant une pensée critique pourront trouver des failles dans l'éloquence.
can't wait to see the debate... hopefully people will see through this charade.
"I don't want to waste any more paper in this election, and for this reason I will not be putting my name on the ballots. If 2,000 people vote, that's 2,000 wasted pieces of paper that I don't want anything to do with!"
intense, but kinda cute :)
Dean's still got me though with those cheeks :) Looks like a cherub, sent from heaven to bring me a cheaper bus pass!
good point by dean at the debates on the OSAP situation of a lot of students. a lower salary reduces the ability of students with debts to run, since taking two courses precludes OSAP from recognizing student status. Thus, they would have to pay back their debts during their time as an SFUO exec.
Beautifully worded, Serge! I agree wholeheartedly.
Re: UPass, they already said it would count as an express pass as well.
And even if it wasn't, you wouldn't have to buy an altogether new pass, you'd probably only pay for the "upgrade". In high school, I received a regular bus pass, and would pay the 9$ difference to make it into an express pass.
But again, as was said during the Upass debates (or on their facebook group, I don't recall), it would in fact count as express as well.
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