Dugba
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The Director of University, Governmental, and Budgetary Affairs (the Dugba) is a lobbyist for the ASMSU Academic Assembly. As the only member of the Academic Assembly's staff, the Dugba works closely with the Student Assembly's lobbyists, collectively known as the E-Staff.
Trivia
- The Dugba was originally called the "Director of University Governmental Budgetary Affairs" (Note the lack of commas). His/her job was to lobby solely on University-Governmental-Budgetary Affairs, (i.e. state appropriations.) In 2000. The commas and the word "and" were added to allow the Dugba to lobby on university affairs, governmental affairs, and budgetary affairs. While this gave the Academic Assembly more power, the Student Assembly E-Staff complained that the Dugba was stepping on their toes. An informal entente was reached where the Dugba specializes in lobbying on budgetary affairs unless collaborating with the E-Staff.
- The acronym Dugba was originally pronounced DOOG-buh. To fan the flames of the rivalry, the Student Assembly members started pronouncing it DUHG-bah in the year 2000. This infuriated many members of Academic Assembly at first, but somehow ended up sticking. As of the year 2004 DUHG-buh is considered proper, and DOOG-buh is deemed archaic.
- The word Dugba also inspired ASMSU to adopt similar acronyms for other positions, such as the DREPSA (Director of Racial, Ethnic, and Progressive Student Affiars), the DOTWA (Director Of Technology and Web Affiars), the DOCA (Director Of Community Affairs), and the DOLA (Director Of Legislative Affairs) None of these names stuck, with the exception of DREPSA.