- Another speaker: some of the speakers in the $25,000 (or less) range include athletes (Ahmad Rashad, Donovan McNab, Kristi Yamaguchi), scientists (Michio Kaku, Robert Ballard), comedians (Capitol Steps, Dame Edna, Ricky Gervais, Second City Comedy, Theo Von), or someone from another speakers' bureau.
- 100 Kindles
- 1000 iTunes gift cards
- a Wii and five games for every dormitory lounge
- 100 new films to screen
- fully catered dance open to all students
These are just some of the things that I can think of. Or maybe, hey, here's a radical idea: student activities money can fund student-run events!
Felicia Steele
I completely agree that funding a "comic" who's taken such a strong position against
ReplyDelete--people of color
--women
--the GLBT community
--public college students
--the not-slim
seems a silly waste of funds taken from students without their permission.
Not inviting Tucker Max to campus is not a free speech or censorship issue at all. This is a public campus. Anyone, including Mr. Max, may come and speak here. But a speaker's fee is a separate issue. I urge students not to allow their money to be given to a speaker who holds EVERY SINGLE TCNJ STUDENT in contempt.
Diane Vanner Steinberg
Things like this sicken me... why does this campus want to prove that it can be edgey by continually funding speakers at this campus for the sake of causing a riot?
ReplyDeleteThis kind of thing does nothing to show the rest of the state that we are a campus of intelligent people. Thank you once again CUB for showing an overwhelming aptitude for generally annoying the student population.
Does the CUB realize how large a sum of money $25,000 is? As a recent TCNJ grad and current high school teacher in a private school with limited funding, this blows my mind. Thanks, Dr. Steele, for sharing this..and for this blog! Will keep reading.
ReplyDeleteThe problem that I saw when I was at TCNJ and in CUB is that the events on campus turn into a vicious cycle - CUB can only bring events that will draw a large enough audience to justify them, and oftentimes the events that draw a large audience on campus are not diverse or educational or even all that good (in the opinion of a lot of people).
ReplyDeleteIf more students were to speak up, and join organizations on campus like CUB, then the activties money could go to events that they wanted. But if students take no other stand than saying they don't like any events on campus, that's not helping anything, and is only perpetuating the idea that most TCNJ students are apathetic.