The 1880

This is a topic that hasn’t been taken lightly around Emerson’s campus.

As John Tyson says in the Facebook group, Official Hand-Me-Down Night Boycott:

Every year, the SGA spends progressively more and more money (this year, nearly $40,000) on, essetially, a giant one-night catered party for themselves and their friends. It’s a giant “pat yourself on the back” fest. To put that amount in perspective, it’s about the same that FPS or EIV receives for their budget for a whole year.

Despite efforts on the parts of many voting members this year to decrease the expense and scale of the event, it’s cost has only gone UP. This is in direct opposition to the general consensus of students, who, when surveyed, mostly agreed that they were not interested in the event, wouldn’t want to go again, and thought the expense was too great.

In light of this argument, the SGA has asked that any students who would like to state their case about the brouhaha can come to the meeting TODAY at 2PM in the upper lobby of the Little Building.

Here is the Facebook event for the SGA Student Initiative on Hand Me Down Night.

Of course, this post is open to any comments in support or against the SGA meeting, Hand-Me-Down Night, or the SGA as a whole, but keep it relatively clean– any lecherous fuckery will be taken care of.

If anybody is interested in writing a full statement, they are encouraged to do so in the comments/concerns box on the lower left corner of the main page.

Disclaimer: John Tyson, former VMA Senator in the SGA, is a staff member of The 1880.