Previously, on EMOSNAIL
You know I've been ridiculously busy when I haven't been keeping up with livejournal entries. This week I had a midterm in Israeli History for which I had a lot of reading to catch up on, and then we had one day to write the take-home essay portion (comparing and contrasting Labour Zionism, Religious Zionism, & Revisionist Zionism).
Last Weekend
We had our second annual Mock Model UN conference, where we pretend to be at a conference pretending to be at a UN conference. Incidently a year ago last wednesday we had the first such mock conferences for our incoming MUNers.
We didn't actually get on to our second chance but it looked like we might, so I set up for the emergency topic I've been waiting to do for awhile: the militant secession of Quebec from Canada to form an independant communist state. Towards the end of the day I'd periodically make announcements such as "Its been discovered that weapons of mass destruction were smuggled out of Iraq prior to the fall of the Baathist regime... they're now in Canada!" and announced the actual secession in the last five minutes. Incidently Canda was represented by the infamous Paul Amnaypayout.
Kritsy and I went on a trek down to SF to see the Plain White T's at The Pound. Turns out The Pound is located between shipping container storage areas on some docks in the middle of nowhere. PWTs were preceded by Army of Freshman, a band that struck me as very boy-band-esque. We got there as AoF was ending, saw PWTs and promptly left for the long trek back to Davis.
This Weekend
We had our second annual "Crash Course in Chairing" (CCC) in preperation for Contra Conta County MUN Conference (CCC MUNC) 2003. Once again for this CCC(C) I was teaching the uninitiated How To Score. Being as I am the expert in this area. And by score, I mean evaluating people's performance and attributing a numerical grade to it.
We followed the tradition I started last year for this and had people represent historical countries which no longer exist. I represented the Khanate of the Golden Horde, also present was The Ottoman Empire, The Confederate States of America, The Roman Empire, Oluwaseun-Okusanyastan, and a country called Bican (which I referred to as Bacon), among others.
Previously On EMOSNAIL - the erstwhile events of yesteryear
23 October, 2003: Return of Officer Chang - I randomly decided to stop by an ASUCD Senate meeting, when who should manifest himself to the displeasure of my conscience, but the odious Officer Chang. The very officer who dismissed it as just a fight when I was set upon by three wanna-be gangstas and left unconscious, refusing to follow the leads we did have. And why was he before the ASUCD Senate this time? Well because he had been fired, because, well, he's probably a terrible officer if my experience is any indication. Why does this involve ASUCD? It doesn't, but he thought he could get their sympathy by claiming he was discriminated against in his termination. And I believe he did and following a general publicity campaign on campus was reinstated.
24 October, 2003: Tough on Crime - The Further Antics of the Davis Police - Under-cover officer in pink shirt nabs skinhead?
Year Ago Wednesday: Tear Gas & Thai Food - More unusually unruly incidents at Kristy's former complex, Stirling Apartments. It would later be the site of a major riot that took several dozen officers in riot gear to put down and is probably responsible for the tough-on-partying doctrine the police currently employ.
Also the fallout from the Taking Back Sunday Incident develops further. This section was later cited by ASUCD President Sara Henry in her second attempt to remove me and I believe Lydiana denied making the statements I attributed to her. Incidently I know she did because I wrote it down the moment she said it and it probably appears in the minutes. One thing I can't stand is people who lie and she lost more respect from me in her denial than she did for making the statements or for voting for my removal.
Year Ago Last Thursday: Judicial Foreshadowing - I speculate about the fat guys in cowboy hats who seem to be in the back of every large poli sci class and feel the need to share with the professor their every thought as if the rest of the class needs to know as well. And I mention the malevolent loop-hole which is just about to make a mess.
Year Ago Last Friday: ASUCD Misprocessing - Previously mentioned malevolent loophole accidently activitated. Apparently my email got lost in former Senate President Pro Tempore Raj Gupta's inbox, causing the problems. Working with him later on I was left ultimately with a thoroughly good opinion of him.
Also I ran this livejournal through this flesch-kincaid reading grade level calculator. Doing it again just now I find that this livejournal is now rated at grade level 10 rather than eight; words per sentence are up to 20.78 from 16.44 and syllables per word are up to 1.52 from 1.49.
Year Ago Yesterday: State of the Court, Fall 2003 - with three appendices!
Last Halloween: Party at the Unlistoya House - featuring citizene's amazing blue brew.
Today: looks like Kristy and I are going to the party at "the Pirate House"
The ASUCD Political Parties
obisan69 reproduced in her lj the top five interests shared by respective members of the two ASUCD political parties as listed on thefacebook.org. In the interest of giving our readers a better feeling for the differences between the two political parties, and seeing as it is an objective reproduction of listed interests, we shall reproduce the results here, but first, obisan69's disclaimer:
Disclaimer: This is an objective reproduction of interests listed elsewhere, as computed from groups participated in by the members of each respective slate. There should be no valuative judgements construed in this reproduction... Even if there were, I'm not an ASUCD official anymore so you can't closed session me :P
- Lead: ASUCD, Democrats, Bush is an Idiot, Vote for Kerry, Davis College Democrats.
- Student Focus: A-Town Pimps & Hos, THE PERV Fanclub, So Cal Connection, Norcal, Party'ers.