UC Berkeley spends $2480 on conferences for Latin and Asian ‘queers’

Campus Reform ^

[oliverdarcy]

The student government at Berkeley University allocated $982 of student funds earlier this year to send a delegation of "queer and Latin" individuals to a conference designed to "educate and empower queer people of color."

Berkeley's Young Queers United For Empowerment (YQUFE), the organization that received the funds via a student senate bill, describes itself on its Facebook as serving "those who identify as queer and Latin."

The funds were allocated out of the student government’s “contingency fund” for conference fees, renting vans and “two queen beds,” for the 25 individuals expected to attend the conference, which took place at California State University, Northridge, about 360 miles South of the Berkeley campus.

[newzjunkey]

Two queen beds for 25 people?

[spawn44]

Other recipiants of the fund not mentioned that truly need to be empowered:
1) Queer midget members of a rare pigmy african tribe
2) Members of the Man/boy freedom sorority house
3) Gay members of the all inclusive OF COLOR Marxist book club.