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Show Chronicle - Page Three Wednesday, February 22, 1989 FOCUS: On The 1989 ASUU Elections Whookie apathy .evolves into an 'Ordinary ASUU By Low Bona Hunt trinkets, bands and exotic foods. Chronicle news editor They received approval from the administration to plant a "Whookie Garden" complete with lettuce, cornstalks and sunflowers. The "apathetic" administration even for Salt sponsored a benefit camp-ou- t Lake homeless and raised almost $2,000 by charging groups $100 to sponsor a Last spring, Mike Kaly and Grant shocked Sperry students and administrators alike by winning one of the most unusual and skewed ASUU elections in the history of the University of Utah. Now, one year later, the Love" pair is about to leave office. And Kaly and Sperry may be the first ASUU administrators to be remembered for what they failed to nihilist-turned-"Whook- - 4 tent and sleep out all night in the cold. But the fun loving and free wheeling seemed to end there. Over time, Kaly and Sperry abandoned Whookie Love for politics. .. of raffling off idea their They squashed ie s if V . t ; , , ASUU positions when they realized it violated Redbook procedure, which is grounds for impeachment NEWS ANALYSIS goal to destrov ASUU the do minimum required and use any chance we get to screw up and to make the system fail. Whatever we ' have to do to be a nuisance, we'll do. We want the system destroyed. We can destroy it from within," Kaly said last accomplish-the- ir We ll '': ..February. But Kaly and Sperry haven't made a . dent ' president . " "ASUU should be destroyed because structure. In fact, it ego-drive- appears t Mike Kaly, February 1988. " '" hey " learned to like their n, collard balls wipes." buttoned-dow- n iiiiiipiipiiii image. it's an attended Kaly anal big rig, fueled by stupidity and a m o s t iron-cla- d e v e r y on a .. As,, 1 Academic from their original theory an that ASUU is "a job to be looked down slug." minimum-wag- e : Shortly after they were elected, Kaly and Sperry abandoned their platform of anarchy and destruction for Whookie Love, urging students to jump on the bandwagon and join the : V administration. The duo even removed the doors from their offices in an attempt to be more open and accommodating to students. They allowed students join the ASUU boards simply by signing their names on a piece of paper, and even talked about allowing students to take turns being the president. The Whookies threw a Mayfest celebration to remember, which included a variety of funky, psychedelic free-spirit- ) ed 4. Senate and Board of Regents meeting. He signed the ASUU budget without a second glance, even though it allocated money to the Greek system he vowed to leave penniless. Kaly and Sperry also decided to keep Grant Sperry, former ASUU vice president, and Mike Kaly, ASUU president, lounge in the "Whookie Garden" they planted to eliminate student apathy. a university, political cronyism by giving tuition their tuition waivers, although they some people from attending U. If the we don't keep open to people of waivers to ASUU members some people vowed during their campaign not to all economic strata, you are going to felt were undeserving of such rewards, accept any compensation. All in all, the Whookies haven't been create animosity and polarization of the The twa admitted they "didn't have different than the rest of the much people," the faintest idea of how much time is educated and bunch. In fact, if Kaly and Sperry would needed to do an effective job," and said Kaly said last October. to have run on a platform of maintaining held also ASUU weekly protests the waivers, which do not come out of at State the the status quo, they wouldn't have student fees, would help them better fight the tax initiatives Capitol, and Sperry voiced anger about broken a single campaign promise, serve U. students. But the Whookies were elected on a low turnout like any other "caring" the Kaly also had several spats with the ASUU vice president. platform of reform- -a signal that students regents about tuition increases and "It's one thing to bitch about student were so fed up with ASUU they were enrollment caps, defending U. students' increases and it's another thing to willing to turn it over to a group that tuition right to education like any "caring" do ' vowed to destroy it. something about them," Sperry said. president. The Whookies even fell victim to Ironically, the opposite occurred. increases will soon non-educat- ed ; - "(Tuition) prevent i C ji ) 7w Council, e of like a M 1 - positions, about-facupon-ki- nd according to tne tiedbook standards. They even stood by while the "liberal" Other Board, whose sole purpose was to eliminate student apathy, died a quick death after the Whookie Garden's first harvest., But more importantly, the pair molded into the traditional ASUU president vice ' in ASUU's They allowed the majority of the ASUU boards to organize themselves fff 7w- "flic, I in 1' v., v St,A U '.UI l i V.at. w - During the tax initiative battle, ASUU held student Last spring, ASUU held a ' almost $2,000. . ... .. camp-ou. t Upraise money for Salt Lake homeless. The event brought in ,; : , protests at the State Capitol each Friday. The sparse attendance was constantly criticized Erotests'President Grant Sperry. |
