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Michigan Student Assembly President To Resign Over Facebook Scandal

"I'll give that kid a fucking disability he can write home about if he keeps sending these code amendments to everyone" was the name of the Facebook group that University of Michigan Student Assembly prez Zack Yost created out of frustration with the frequent amendments proposed by Rep. Tim Hull. Tim has Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism that is often not really worth writing home about. "Yost's accomplishments as president include helping organize a rally in Lansing for increased higher education funding, developing an intern program to get more freshmen involved in student government and co-founding the Michigan Action Party ... But his legacy—fairly or unfairly—will likely be defined by the Facebook group," the Michigan Daily somberly intones.

11:15 AM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Emily Gould
3,854 views, 57 comments

Latest by KarenUhOh: @Trampoline: Can't help you there. I'm a Cardinal fan, if it's any consolation. more »

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Meet Your New Princeton Student Government: A Jew And A Wang


On Sunday, Princeton chose a new Undergraduate Student president, Josh Weinstein. (He succeeds outgoing USG president, Rob Biederman, who, on the front page of the Daily Princetonian, is shown lighting "a giant gas-fired menorah outside the Center for Jewish Life.") Weinstein got five times as many votes as his opponent. What's his secret? His spectacular YouTube ad, in which various Class Presidents endorse him while looking uneasily off camera and blinking irregularly and possibly in Morse Code. His opponent, despite winning some science prize when she was eighteen, had no Youtube video. But Weinstein isn't the only Princeton winner with a great ad! More »

11:50 AM on Wed Dec 5 2007
By Joshua Stein
3,632 views, 47 comments

Latest by SeeingI: I'd vote for that hair even if it were attached to Lyndon Larouche. more »