So I just read an e-mail from Dana's GSA. I'm rather . . . bothered by it.
The e-mail was concerning the meeting this morning and what was discussed there.
First of all, the whole GSA thing seems to have fallen through the cracks at Dana. When we tried to kick start it at the beginning of the year, there were 5 people that showed up, and then we had to schedule meetings around one individual person who never really did anything for the GSA in the first place. As a result, the meetings were set at some obscure time, and to my knowlegde, there weren't any most of the time.
Then, all of a sudden I hear from Katie last week that I need to start going to meetings.
Whaaaaa? Since when have there been meetings? And why, out of EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK that you see me do you NOW tell me that I have been missing meetings?
And then I get an e-mail saying that there was a meeting this morning to discuss getting the GSA back up on its feet. Well, good, I thought. We need to do that. Especially since I just got a notice from Alan about the UNL GSA retreat thingy.
Well, I was all set to go to this meeting. And then my internet at school crashes. By itself, its not a horrible thing. But my methods and calendar for my research project were due, and they were stuck on my computer. I needed to print them. Usually I just e-mail them to myself, open my e-mail in the computer lab, and print. As I had no way to e-mail from my computer, this was not an option. So, when I got up this morning, and STILL didn't have internet, I paniced, and had to try and find different options to get my paper printed so I could hand it in. Thus, I was unable to attend this morning's meeting.
Well, I just got the summary of this meeting: They are re-voting for my office. Now, originally I was the Vice-President. It was more of an honorary position than anything as we already had Co-Presidents. I just had a title. They never let me do anything in the organization. The few times I DID try to contribute, I got looked at like I was insane. Even when I tried to get people to go to the UNL GSA retreat last year, the only people (from Dana's GSA) that went were Emilia and Joe. That was really discouraging considering no one else seemed even remotely interested in attending.
So, while the office of Vice-President was little more than a figure head in the first place, being removed from office is not horrible, but I think its a little . . . less than polite, I guess, to just boot me out. Its even more intesting that the position is being singled out. If you're going to have different officers, change ALL the offices.
I tried to do my job. They wouldn't let me, and then didn't tell me they were having meetings. I'm really thinking this is a pile of dren.
But it doesn't end there. Now Mandy is all gung ho about the UNL GSA retreat. She's even trying to get student senate to pay for a hotel room so we can be there all weekend. Where was all this support when I was trying to organize it? I gave them just as much advanced notice! Now all of a sudden its a big important deal when MANDY introduces it. What the hell is up with that?
And then, what pisses me off the MOST: They scheduled meetings for mondays at 8:00 pm. Which means that I can not attend a single meeting the entire semester. I have class on mondays until 9:30. And even if I didn't have class, I would have musical rehearsal until 9:30. Now, if I was the only person this affected, I could understand. Sure I would be irritated that they schedule a GSA meeting for the one time the only gay guy that is a member CAN'T attend, but I would understand because the whole organization shouldn't have to make ammends for one single person. That's what made it go under last semester. But, having meetings at 8:00 pm means that no one in any production can attend meetings. So, right there we knock out myself, Katie, Joe, Nick, Kori, Jo Ellen, and Tabby later on in the semester. Who knows how many other people have classes on monday evenings? Now they've officially cut the size of the GSA in half with probably the worst meeting time imaginable.
They've kicked me out of office, taken over my event, and barred me from meetings. How ridiculous is this? It's frelling absurd. I'm so pissed right now I just want to quit the whole stupid thing. It's just another example of fucking fags outcasting me. The LAST place I expected it to extend to was a GSA. Wow, was I wrong.
Eric 2/15/2005 11:43:00 PM
