Completely awful. And disappointing. And embarrassing.
All of zero students showed up, save for the ones that were a part of ASMSU. The sparse crowd consisted mainly of reporters, the aforementioned ASMSU kids and random adults. It may have totaled about 40 people, if that.
I guessed it almost as soon as I got there, after seeing empty chairs with ten minutes to go and overhearing ASMSU representatives' frantic discussion and references to a "flop."
Speeches were unoriginal and expected, lacking the same momentum and energy of the rally. Here's a video of Mark Meadow's speech.
What I found most interesting was that Joan Bauer presented the issue of higher education funding as one that was sort of stuck, for lack of a better word, where it was. She said that without a voice next year, an unavoidable decrease in funding was likely to happen again next year. From the looks of it, the voice will once again be nonexistent.
I asked two girls on my floor why they didn't go to the rally, and got the typical, uninterested answers that are attributed to students by politicians and adults.
Who knows who is to blame. But it's pathetic, in any which way you look at it.
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