Last night an EMOSNAIL Commando Team made up of Tarisha, her friend Sherri, Brent Laabs (orwell_troll), Witless_Nerd, my roommate Jason and I, and another guy, went exploring for steam tunnels on campus ( Read more... )

   From Wednesday afternoon until early this morning I have been in Davis. The main reason for my visit was that before I filed for graduation I had to file for my minors, and I could only do the latter in person ( Read more... )

   The Opinion for Case 34 has been published   Case revolved around dispute as to whether if a closed session was called on Controller Savaree-Ruess, and Savaree-Ruess motions for it to be open, can then-senate-candidate Peake who was involved in an altercation with Savaree-Ruess, require that it be closed (based on ¶3 of the relevant section, ( Read more... )

The ASUCD Supreme Court

CASE # 35

Laabs v. Holloway

12/06/06, accepted

WRIT OF CERTIORARI
Before: Chief Justice Fricke; Justices Harney, Aguilera, Sraboyants, & Wheat
Fricke, C.J., delivers the opinion of the Court:

I. The Prima Facie Merits of the Case
   The ASUCD Constitution, Article III § 4 ¶ 4 states in part:The President shall ( Read more... )

   Court meeting this evening. We (1) Set the time & place for the Case 34 Hearing as next Wednesday at 7:10pm, MU Mee Rm; (2) Granted the Plaintiff's motion to have two counsels speak for each side rather than one; (3) Elected a new Vice Chief Justice -- Tim Coady; (4) I read the new "Presiding Officer Suppliment" (to the Judicial Handbook which ( Read more... )

   As before, I'm having the Vice Chiefs pretty much run things. At today's meeting: Justice Aguilera: "Hey how are you?" Me: "I don't have my laptop, I don't have an agenda, I don't have anything, its great not having to stress about that anymore!" ... a few minutes later Vice Chief Wheat comes in and asks me how I'm doing as well "I have no idea ( Read more... )

   The UCSA Board of Directors voted No Confidence in their chairman our own Brent Laabs. Laabs subsequently resigned. This is not expected to improve relations between UC Davis & the UC Student Association ( Read more... )

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   I spent six hours at a Senate meeting on Thursday. Then I wanted to die. I'm glad I only ever came within 24% of enough votes to become a Senator. Moreover, I'm glad choice voting wasn't in place at the time, otherwise I surely would have been subjected to 6+ hour Senate meetings for an entire year.

Today (Friday) I went down to the ( Read more... )

   My primary method of staying sane this last finals period was to observe the recent changes in Daviswiki. It gave me the feeling of poking me head out of my burrow much like a meerkat and observing the outside world. This observation was suprisingly entertaining, shockingly dramatic, and deplorably distracting ( Read more... )