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Posted on 1/21/10 at 11:05 am to MightyYat
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was obviously part of the douchebag machine
The machine is pretty awesome, fwiw.
Posted on 1/21/10 at 11:18 am to Golfer
Yeah, this sounds like a hoot. 
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In 1992, Phi Mu sorority member Minda Riley (daughter of current Governor Bob Riley) ran against Machine-backed candidate and Beta Theta Pi fraternity member Neil Duthie. In that election, Minda Riley made claims of harassment and physical assault, even though she belonged to a Machine-aligned sorority. Although her claims of alleged harassment and physical assault were never verified and remain unproven, the University nevertheless suspended the Student Government Association altogether, and did not reinstitute it until 1996. Minda Riley's brother Rob Riley was elected president of the SGA as a Machine candidate.[citation needed]
In 1999 African American Fabien Zinga-Kanza, a candidate for the SGA presidency, claimed that he was personally threatened and that his campaign signs were defaced. CNN covered the story, with references to the alleged history of intimidation attributed to the Machine.[citation needed]
Prior to the 2002 SGA election, the phrase "Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine" from Henry David Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience" was chalked on the outer wall of the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library. This caused a group of students, calling themselves "The Counter-friction", to interrupt then university president Andrew Sorenson's epidemiology class while chanting words of protest against The Machine. Dr. Sorenson resigned his post soon after.[citation needed]
Internet voting debuted in 2003, but the results were ruled invalid after allegations of fraud and the election was repeated with paper ballots the following week. During the next election in 2004 SGA senate candidate Emily Aviki detailed alleged harassment that she claimed she received for the Crimson White, which used it for an exposé entitled "You don't want to mess with us." Though her campaign was successful, Aviki transferred to Duke University
Posted on 1/21/10 at 11:28 am to BrooksnDunn
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Bama's Machine at it again...
- spend money that isn't yours. Check!
- blatantly disregard rules and procedures. Check!
- cover your tracks by calling it a "humanitarian mission" Check!
These folks will make fine politicians one day.
Yep. Already acting like our elected officials. Now all we need to read about is bribery and sex than all bases will be covered.
Posted on 1/21/10 at 11:36 am to NOLATide
frat buddies of mine weren't even allowed to mention the word 'machine' when we were in school. it was comical
Posted on 1/21/10 at 11:36 am to partsman103
They are sperate. There are more members of the machine who are not part of the SGA than the other way around. They have control of the greek system who are the only ones who vote in the elections which is why their people always win. Most of the senators and SGA members aren't actually in the machine. they just get their backing. They send a flyer to the fraternity houses of who to vote for and it works every year.
The Machine is just a coed secret fraternity. Kind of like The Friars at LSU except coed and they take one or two folks a year from all the old row frats and soroties. They do their own pledgeship and have their own letters. It's actually a chapter of a national secret society. It's not limited to SGA or whatever everyone makes it out to be.
Most of the ones I knew thought pretty highly of themselves. Whatever floats your boat. Some people get off on all that secret shite. Whatever.
The Machine is just a coed secret fraternity. Kind of like The Friars at LSU except coed and they take one or two folks a year from all the old row frats and soroties. They do their own pledgeship and have their own letters. It's actually a chapter of a national secret society. It's not limited to SGA or whatever everyone makes it out to be.
Most of the ones I knew thought pretty highly of themselves. Whatever floats your boat. Some people get off on all that secret shite. Whatever.
Posted on 1/21/10 at 11:38 am to NOLATide
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There is not a single reference to The Machine in this article. The SGA and The Machine are seperate enitites. You know not what you speak of.
^ obviously a member
Posted on 1/21/10 at 11:39 am to UPT
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Posted on 1/21/10 at 11:53 am to memphisplaya
"First rule of The Machine....there's no Machine!"
Posted on 1/21/10 at 12:00 pm to Golfer
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In a phone interview late Wednesday night, SGA spokeswoman Anne Elizabeth Davis described the rule violation as “an inadvertent admission” and said that she knew of no immediate plans to implement changes to ensure the rule is followed in the future
WTF is “an inadvertent admission”?
Posted on 1/21/10 at 12:47 pm to Golfer
As a Bama student this sickens me 
Posted on 1/21/10 at 12:52 pm to BamaFan89
You guys should really drop this before shite gets real....
Posted on 1/21/10 at 12:57 pm to I Love Bama
I dont pay much attention to the SGA or "The Machine" but doesnt stuff like this happen often?
Posted on 1/21/10 at 1:20 pm to Marines4Auburn
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2004 SGA senate candidate Emily Aviki detailed alleged harassment that she claimed she received for the Crimson White, which used it for an exposé entitled "You don't want to mess with us." Though her campaign was successful, Aviki transferred to Duke University
Holy shite, I went to high school with Emily, sweet girl too, thats messed up.
Posted on 1/21/10 at 1:26 pm to PhiBootaRoota07
and then you graduate, get a job, trophy wife, 2.5 kids and a mortgage. You have an issue at work and the boss says "I dont give a damn about this so called machine you keep refering to" and sudenlly you realize no one else does either.
Posted on 1/21/10 at 1:37 pm to MightyYat
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In 1992, Phi Mu sorority member Minda Riley (daughter of current Governor Bob Riley) ran against Machine-backed candidate and Beta Theta Pi fraternity member Neil Duthie. In that election, Minda Riley made claims of harassment and physical assault, even though she belonged to a Machine-aligned sorority. Although her claims of alleged harassment and physical assault were never verified and remain unproven, the University nevertheless suspended the Student Government Association altogether, and did not reinstitute it until 1996. Minda Riley's brother Rob Riley was elected president of the SGA as a Machine candidate.[citation needed]
Yep that was the year my sister was running (she was an Alpha Gam). She withdrew from the race when all this shite jumped off.
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