Monday

Law and Hors D'oeuvres

Student groups can be counted on for one thing: self-promotion. One of the biggest self-promotions promulgated by these self-promoters is they buy food their meetings. Correction. They don't actually buy the food. They lobby SBA to give them money so they can enjoy tastey treats and get people to say, 'wow, these guys are benevolent. Surely I will go to their meetings.' Why does SBA do this? Surely it's because every SBA member is also in a student-group.

But back to the food. The groups vary in their self-promotion by the kind of food they serve. Thus, any student's choice of what group they join is based partially on a menu. For example in an e-mail from the SBA dated 9/17/07, we find that the Asian Student group is serving Thai Food at their meeting, and the Animal Defense Fund is serving vegetarian pizza. The Wisconsin International Law Society, however, has decided to break the trend by, instead of serving a delicious potluck of international dishes as they did at all past meetings, serving KFC. http://www.kfc.com/

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