ASUCD Scandal Apocalypse
Feb. 10th, 2005 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Daviswiki officially has the Aggie's pictures of the upcoming ASUCD presidential candidates up before the Aggie does, such sauce!
Today user "SenateScandal" started commenting again on the contentious "Budget Hearing Scandal" (which I believe had been deleted previously). This time the situation became even more apocalyptic than before, with user "DPSforLife" eventually posting serious incriminations against most of the members of Senate (note, anonymous names such as these are extremely rare). Just a FEW of these allegations (quoted verbatim) are (and keep in mind I make no claims whatsoever on the veracity of any of these):
[other reports indicate he sold people patently bad drugs]
The entry has since been deleted. If it has been resurrected, it would be here.
This posting caused such a stir that not long after the editing began I received a frantic call from the senate office on campus from a Senator who wanted to know what I knew about the situation and the legality of it all. Apparently over on the third floor the entry had caused mass panic.
Incidently at this moment Senate has just begun for the day. For once I have no business there and can actually make use of my Thursday evening. I'd like to see the current state of everyone though (keep in mind nearly all of them were named in a devastating way in the entry).
A major continuing topic of discussion on that page is why the Aggie never picked up on the Budget Hearing Scandal (that certain Senators smoked the cannabis during budget hearings). One source associated with the aggie points out this timeline:
[Theron] was at The Aggie, she covered senate stuff, including the meetings
Also this whole thing caused me to make a nerdy entry on the Wiki Ethics page (currently last entry - look for US v Spinelli in bold).
Also Dyanna Quizon is back on the list of people allegedly involved in the Budget Hearing Scandal.
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Date: 2005-02-11 02:59 am (UTC)Paloma's Piercing.
Date: 2005-02-11 08:48 pm (UTC)The real question is how did the writer know about it? Does their knowledge of it narrow down the list of possible writers? Or does it NOT narrow it down? O=
Re: Paloma's Piercing.
Date: 2005-02-11 08:50 pm (UTC)Re: Paloma's Piercing.
Date: 2005-02-11 08:55 pm (UTC)Re: Paloma's Piercing.
Date: 2005-02-11 09:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-11 04:09 am (UTC)Anyway, they've gotta learn the following:
DON'T PANIC.
Relax, it will all be okay.
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Date: 2005-02-11 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-11 08:10 am (UTC)Really though, who the hell does coke in Davis. That is the least convincing fake rumor since forever.
Beeman
Date: 2005-02-11 08:54 pm (UTC)Security of this entry is tightly controlled. I don't anticipate this entry aggravating the rumours overly much.
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Date: 2005-02-11 06:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-11 06:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-11 04:38 pm (UTC)Excitement on the Third Floor
Date: 2005-02-11 10:04 pm (UTC)How were things at the senate meeting yesterday?
Mystery 1/2 solved
Date: 2005-02-14 10:51 pm (UTC)http://www.daviswiki.org/index.cgi/Environmental_20Policy_20and_20Planning_20Commission?action=info
Hover over Karly's name and Dps' name. Same IP. Edit made within a minute or so. She was obviously logged in and forgot to log out.
Anyway, with this in mind, checking the revision history on "Budget Hearing Scandal" and seeing the most shocking edit:
http://www.daviswiki.org/index.cgi/Budget_20Hearing_20Scandal?action=diff&date2=1108073794&date1=1108073700
That was made by the DPS account (same one Karly used above), but from a different IP. Doesn't prove Karly made the edit, but it proves she knows the person who did or might be the person who made the edit.
Personal opinion: She made the edit. Who else would know that much?
Re: Mystery 1/2 solved
Date: 2005-02-14 10:54 pm (UTC)(so it's more like 99.9% solved now)
Re: Mystery 1/2 solved
Date: 2005-02-14 10:58 pm (UTC)Re: Mystery 1/2 solved
Date: 2005-02-14 11:03 pm (UTC)Awesome work. I do get the sense the dark side is seething within her. It makes a lot of sense.
Re: Mystery 1/2 solved
Date: 2005-02-15 03:18 am (UTC)Re: Mystery 1/2 solved
Now I'm tempted to post an entry to the affect of: "We know who posted the dirt on everyone in ASUCD -- will sell their identity to highest bidder."
Re: Mystery 1/2 solved
Date: 2005-02-15 03:21 am (UTC)Just make sure that they know that Karly's comments were in response to the original "SenateScandal" account and she was attempting to make the point that the wiki shouldn't be used for rumor mongers. In the process of making her point, however, she pissed the shit out of everyone and make folks upset.
Re: Mystery 1/2 solved
Date: 2005-02-15 03:23 am (UTC)Re: Mystery 1/2 solved
Date: 2005-02-16 06:35 pm (UTC)DpsForLife was created just to edit this page and only made edits on this page and the page Karly accidentially edited.
DpsForLife went through a series of IP addresses while it was in use. The IP address that matched Karly's was the Senate Computer's IP, as traced by Alex Park. Because of the fact there was no edit by that same computer (IP) in the time between the mean-ass DpsForLife post and Karly's accident, it's likely the case that the computer was simply logged in as DpsForLife and someone forgot to log it out.
Now: The other 3 IPs used by the account during the few hours it was making posts..2 of them point to University Village, the housing complex. Those IPs match up exactly with several (and by several, I mean practically all) of Darnell Holloway's edits. There is a third IP that doesn't match to anything.
Does this mean Darnell did it? Maybe. The IP was used by Kenji Yamada at some other point, as well, but it's probably a public computer. Darnell works for University Village so it's probably him that had the senate freaked out.
Why would he do this? He had the most to lose if the original accusations were not dropped -- that he and a few others smoked out, and that Caliph was a drug dealer. So by slinging incredible mud at everyone else, he succeeded in discrediting the original, also anonymous, mud-slinger.
*whew*
Re: Mystery 1/2 solved?
Date: 2005-02-16 07:28 pm (UTC)