The Clog, in attempt to be intelligently witty, has decided that the newly approved $400 ASUC scholarship for recovered drug addicts is in bad form for the ASUC. From the Clog:

When we said students were an embarassment, we meant it and it didn’t take long for them to prove it. In an attempt to fight the man, the ASUC passed a bill to have a scholarship only for students with drug convictions.

We can only speculate as to how many hits it took to imagine this egalitarian piece of legislation. What we do know, however, is how much weed one lucky qualified student can buy for $400.

Clever, sirs, very clever. Well, if you had actually read the bill, you’d know that students don’t receive the money, but rather, must be reimbursed with receipts for their tuition and book costs. They aren’t given a blank check to take to their local pot dealers. Sorry, but the local Berkeley economy probably won’t be seeing that big a bump because of these ASUC efforts.

As far as the idea of the bill goes, if you don’t like giving people who have made a demonstrated effort to turn their lives around a second chance, you’re entitled to be a prick (or a Republican). Maybe you think they’d be better off in jail? Or working minimum wage, showing you where the hardware aisle is at Target? Maybe instead of complaining about $400 of a $1.5 millon operating budget, you could, I don’t know, be more critical of the ASUC’s efforts to raise student fees (again) with no clear benefit guaranteed to the student body.