Portland, OR - Looking to resolve the problem of a lack of respect shown to marginalized members within their ranks, the 107ist and the Timbers Army announced that they will empower a new committee to form a committee to analyze the work on the committee on diversity.

“We need to really understand the black experience, anyone know anyone? Wait… Heather… didn’t you write your thesis on the lyrical influence of the albums of Kanye West when you attended Reed?”

“After consulting with our consulting committee, we decided to form a committee to help form a committee to analyze the work of the committee on diversity. Our agreeance committee has agreed to this notion,” stated the announcement. “We’ve worked our way through Roberts Rules of Order which state that, ‘A Committee is a body of one or more persons appointed or elected by an assembly or society to consider, or investigate, or take action in regard to, certain matters or subjects, or to do all of these things,’ and we feel that our committee to form a committee to analyze the works of the committee on diversity falls under that purview. We read some post highlighting these issues and our hearts broke. That's not the 107ist and Timbers Army way. We immediately knew we had to form a committee on this but also another committee to make sure we keep that committee accountable. In order to form that committee we needed to gather together another committee to ensure that the correct members are appointed to the first committee to keep the committee accountable.”

The message to the membership continued to state, “Yes, all of our committee committee committee members are white, but the diversity committee that we are trying to form will help make that change as we reach out to the committee committee members to help detail who we need to add to make the committee on diversity a diversified committee. We promise to have a thorough report available when the committee delivers their report on the work of the committee investigating the committee in approximate 12 to 18 months. In the meantime, you will definitely see T.I.F.O showing that we are changing. Our T.I.F.O committee will make sure of that.”

The Nutmeg News will have more on this as the committee chairman on diversity claims that there is no limit to the number of times a member may speak, and unless the committee is very large, it is not necessary for any one to rise and address the chair before making a motion or speaking, nor does the chairman rise to put the question, nor does he leave the chair to speak or make motions, nor are motions seconded.