USG Watchdog

Everyone knows that every Illinois Student supports funding for MAP Grants.  Starting a support group, wearing a button, making a video, and signing a petition isn’t going to get anyone’s attention.  They KNOW how you feel about this.  They’re not idiots.  All it is going to do is make the organizers of such activities look [...]

There is a lot of confusion and misinformation swirling around about compensation for Undergraduate Student Government leaders. It does not help that one of the few sources of information, The Chicago Flame, presents only one side of the argument, and basically becomes the mouthpiece for one small faction of politically ambitious students.
Just a week [...]

I was raised with a very cut & dry/black & white idea of right & wrong.  It wasn’t until my 20’s that this idealism was seriously challenged, and I learned to embrace the varying shades of grey that represent the complex world in which we live.
So, when I first heard that the USG assembly candidates [...]

This election season saw the emergence of several disturbing trends.  The moment online polls opened at midnight on April 15, hundreds of campus housing residents were disturbed by knocks on their doors from eager campaigners soliciting votes.  Official polling stations, staffed by election workers went barely noticed, yet numerous polling stations were set up by [...]

I know what you’re thinking:  “Zachariah.  Last time I checked, you came in third place in the election with only a pathetic 25.6% of the vote.  You didn’t win.  You’re the biggest loser here, buddy.”  Well, if I was campaigning because I personally wanted to sit in the seat of power and prominence as President [...]