The ASUO: You don't care about it now, but you will!

Welcome to the Oregon Daily Emerald’s new (maybe eventually) award-winning blog coverage of the government of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon.

We decided to create this site for the best, noblest reason, one that befits the high-minded guardians of the Fourth Estate: the ASUO governs how your money is spent (at least a miniscule quantum of the umpty-trillion dollars you pump into that Anthropology degree annually) and without the constant oversight we provide, they could use it for nefarious purposes and you would never know. That and the Commentator has an (definitely actually) award-winning politics blog. And in it they call us “The Dirty.” Sometimes even in lowercase.

Everyone at the University of Oregon ought to know about the ASUO, at the very least so that they can impress their friends by explaining how the Oregon Marching Band is (partially) funded. I’m not selling this too well, am I? But a lot of what the ASUO does is really important. Many things that you take for granted you have thanks in part to them–buses to campus (for now), student tickets to Ducks games, funding for programs you probably use.

As an added bonus unlike federal, state, and local politicians, they are powerless to prevent you from walking into their office hours and subjecting them to your plainly dimwitted proposals for that on-campus strip club, the generously funded club celebrating “The Muppets in Space” you’ve always wanted or bringing Kimbo Slice to speak at the next convocation. How’s that for democratic power?

In this blog, I hope to give you all the information you need about the ASUO so that you don’t have to attend often painfully tedious and confusing meetings every Wednesday night like I do, and hopefully in a way so entertaining you’ll literally spend all your time on this site, fail all your classes and drop out of school. Or at least come back to read it once in a while.