Posted on January 28 at 9:57 a.m.Suggest removal

Several things... Schwartz obviously had no idea what was going on, because the "emergency" she is talking about is for an emergency meeting under the open meetings act...and the emergency in this case is emergency legislation under the USC bylaws. Different things entirely, so her comments have nothing to do with this situation.

Second, there is no requirements set forth of what does and doesn't constitute what could be "reasonably foreseen", and the reasonably foreseen clause refers to matters, not bills... While the act itself could have been reasonably foreseen as Jim Milton suggests, the urgency with which its passage was necessary was unforeseen. As such, the "matter" of immediate passage of the bill was unforeseen and therefore eligible to be heard under new business.

Finally, the spirit of the OOMA is to prevent legislative bodies from enacting things without the public’s ability to be there to watch it happen... and passing a bill that allows the public to vote for themselves on an issue will never violate the spirit of the law. Ever.

Perhaps the OU Daily should consider reporting on news around campus instead of trying to stir up controversy where there is none... but then again, it's reasonably foreseen that the quality of the Daily is crap, and has been for years.

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Posted on November 3 at 11:41 a.m.Suggest removal

Hmmmm, that's interesting. I sure hope that absolutely no public funds are used to support the Daily in any way, because if they are, endorsing candidates is highly, highly illegal...

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Posted on November 3 at 11:35 a.m.Suggest removal

Slippery slope isn't necessarily a fallacy, it depends on the context. If you say "If this happens, it'll definately make this happen", then it's a fallacy.

If you say "If this happens, it makes it far more likely than this will happen", it's not a fallacy at all. It's just a statement about probabilities.

If I type the letter W, I'm in fact 20% closer to typing the word WRONG than I was before. It also makes the probability of me typing RIGHT to be zero. If it was a fallacy in this case, you wouldn't be able to text on your cell phone in lightning speed...

In this case, I don't even see a slippery slope or an argument...

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Posted on September 5 at 2:01 p.m.Suggest removal

You know, airplanes aren't blown up every weekend, but they still X-Ray bags before they put them on a plane.

Students don't die of alchol poisoning in their frat house every weekend, but OU is a dry campus because it happened once.

Students don't get shot at organizational meetings past midnight everytime, but a faculity adviser now has to be there because it happened once.

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