Slabs vs Stone
Slabs vs Stone?
The ASUCD Supreme Court is set to hear a case that has plagued man since the neolithic: slabs versus stone. Case # 29: Brent S Laabs vs Daniel E Stone.
Yesterday we were to have the Hearing for Case # 29, regarding whether or not the statement in the bylaws that "All ASUCD websites will be stored on the ASUCD server [and]Creation of all websites will go through Media Link" applies to our paper, the California Aggie. Putting it extremely concisely, the Plaintiff appears to intend to argue that the newspaper is a unit of ASUCD and its activities are not in accordance with ASUCD guidelines; while Defense intends to argue that the principal of freedom of the media from government intervention applies to the relationship between ASUCD and the Aggie. Though unlike other cases this one doesn't have a huge scandal at stake, I think it promises to be one of the more interesting and intellectually challenging questions we've faced, with serious potential ramifications.
I planned on fortifying myself in the ASUCD Conference Room all day to prepare for the case, but mysterious "auditors" had possessed the Conference Room. Damn you Igor Birman for summoning auditors!! (not really, I think these are unrelated auditors). Anyway, it turned out that one of our justices has a bad case of mono, and as we're kept at half a court, we can't make quorum without every one of us. Detractors point at our frequent inability to make quorum as a weakness of the Court, I'd like to point out that if any other ASUCD body could not function if one member was missing, they'd all fail to make quorum twice as much as us.
The case has been rescheduled for Tuesday next week, 6:10pm, ASUCD Mee Rm.
Last week the Yolo County Superior Court and I bounced calls off eachother for several days. I also discovered that the county DA's office phone number starts with 666 -- a coincidence, I think not. Then I showed up to Senate armed with the paperwork for a lawsuit, highlighting the fact that malicious intent + reckless disregard for the truth + "tends directly to injure him in respect to his office, profession, trade or business, either by imputing to him general disqualification in those respects which the office or other occupation peculiarly requires"" IS slander (or libel if written). Fortunately the involved persons apologized and the situation was amicably resolved.
Most importantly, however, I was able to make a pun I've been meaning to make for some time now: there's as much evidence that we were using voodoo black magic to summon the spirit of Tiqula Bledsoe as there is that we were in violation of the spirit of the brown act.
Kristy went home this weekend so I was intent on hiding in my lair all weekend and being grinch-like. However Ben ruined my evil plans by dragging me out to The Grad with him and Jadine on Friday night.
Monday evening Kritsy and I went to G Street Pub where a number of people had gathered to celebrate Olivia (pygmypeach81)'s birthday.
Picture of the Day
Kristy at G Street Pub with the Swedes last quarter.
Previously on Emosnail
Three Years Last Thursday: Hard Core Show at Hippie Cafe - which the hippies eventually pull the plug on because its too violent for them. Also, I introduce all 12 of the livejournal friends I had at the time, and first experiment with putting a picture in an entry.
Three Years Ago Last Friday: A(i)my/ies Explained - Because I know a bunch of A(i)mie/ys, I decide to talk about them all.
Three Years Ago Monday: Coffee House Personalities - Another critically acclaimed Emosnail expose. Get the real story about "Visor Lady," "Fatigue Guy," and Tharen (AKA "Hugging Guy"), two years before Daviswiki even existed! Also, while working as a cashier in the Coffee House I meet Antoinette. And my heater is finally fixed.
Three Years Ago Yesterday: The Girl That Had a Boyfriend - I tell the epic story of "the girl that had a boyfriend." Also I first learn that Chief Justice Turner intends to prevent the new justices from sitting on the D1 case.
Three Years Ago Today: Fifth Floor Discovered - Alyssa visits, and I discover the MU's Fifth Floor. Also I discover via Jackson Pritt's livejournal that the space shuttle Columbia has exploded. )=