Live unicorn in Senate
Here’s the text of an email from Sam Dotters-Katz that I just recieved:
Dear Senate,
This is an official notice of an ASUO Executive Appointment to Senate Seat 19. Our appointment is CJ Carmelia. I will have copies of his materials in your boxes Monday.
Regards,
Sam
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Sam Dotters-Katz
President
Associated Students University of Oregon
asuopres@uoregon.edu
(541) 346-0624
Which I assume, judging from the UO Directory search results for the name “Carmelia” means that CJ Ciaramella’s application to the ASUO Senate has been accepted. Ciaramella is the editor of the Oregon Commentator and sits in on most Senate meetings already, so it’s not as if he will have to radically reorder his schedule.
The hacks (i.e. myself) will be happy because CJ has a long last name that eats up column inches and promises to be a fun interview and a controversial figure. For you, the institutional fee paying student, I don’t know what it means.
I have known about CJ’s plans to apply for months, but though I don’t remember his specifically saying so, I’ve always assumed (and his letter supports this) that they were a pointed joke on the Senate rather than a serious attempt to ensure the cultural and physical development of the university.
I honestly don’t know which side of CJ Ciaramella will be on display during his confirmation hearing. The tone of the letter suggests that it will be the one that led him to request (and recieve) $3 in ASUO money for a live unicorn and a stripper pole during the Commentator’s budget hearing before the PFC, having stumbled smoking a Camel menthol from the direction of Rennie’s Landing moments before. It wouldn’t make him so out of place. Everyone likes a joke, and I know of several current and former Senators who have intimate relationships with fifths of corn whiskey and $2 beers.
However, Ciaramella could also surprise us and draw on the strongly ideological side that led him to speak out at Athan Papailiou’s confiramtion hearing, calling the former Senate President the only obstacle to the “gravy train” chugging along under the aegis of the programs-friendly crowd.
One way or the other, it could be interesting. It could even be bloodier than the Papailiou hearing.
An aside on Sam Dotters-Katz’s email: I’ve noticed he has a habit of struggling with last names–Ricardo Cebrecos’ and Nick Schillaci’s come to mind–but who doesn’t have a weakness. Mine is even numbers and seven. I get them confused and it has been a problem. Hence “a little over $80″ in my last post. I couldn’t remember the second digit because I didn’t have my notes on me and (I think) it was even.
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