The University of Nevada-Reno Students for Liberty, nominated for Student Group of the Year, are continuing their tradition of exposing the many failings of their student government, the ASUN. To display just how foolish and wasteful the student government is, they will host a “Abolish the ASUN Festival” with funding from the ASUN itself. And yes, the event will feature ponies.
Members of the UNR Students for Liberty received nearly $3,000 on Saturday to fund an “Abolish ASUN Festival” in March. The event, which will feature ponies, bounce houses, a mechanical bull and snacks, was created to show how frivolously ASUN allocates and spends student-generated money…
Despite the title, the purpose is not to abolish ASUN, Hunton said. The key goal is to show that ASUN needs stricter policies and guidelines in order to allocate student money. The festival, which is tentatively set for March 8, is expected to have two horses, two ponies, two bounce houses, a mechanical bull, 500 balloons and hundreds of dollars in snacks — totaling about $3,000 of ASUN money, Travis Hagen, UNR Students for Liberty treasurer, said. The unnecessary and strange array of events available is meant to show that ASUN will spend their money on unnecessary things if you ask, Hagen said.
Read the whole story in their local paper the Nevada Sagebrush here: http://nevadasagebrush.com/blog/2010/02/09/watchdog-club-gets-3000-for-%E2%80%98abolish-asun%E2%80%99/
“The simplest way for ASUN to allocate money better is if they didn’t exist. If they didn’t spend money, then students could spend their money in a way they think is best, not ASUN.”
This is our message. Make no mistake: governments cannot efficiently allocate resources properly, may it be student, local, state, or federal governments. No legislation, internal policies and procedures, or 'good people' can ever take money by force and fraud and use it properly or justifiably. Stay tuned as we continually demonstrate this fact in the weeks to come. "Our" ASUN better prepare themselves for a student-proposed ballot initiative to abolish themselves, with the majority of signatures coming from our up and coming festival (with ponies).
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