Yesterday (Cont.) - Crazy Preacher Man

   Picking up where I left off, no less than ten minutes after making my addendum to last entry, I met with my roommate Adrian and some friends of his where they were sitting with their guitars on the quad. There, with a number of other bystanders, we were amused for about 40 minutes by the antics of a crazy religious man on the quad.

   Unlike other crazy religious men, this one actually referred to himself as a prophet or oracle. He alternated between shouting his sermon at the local student traffic, occasionally singing, and at one point suddenly adopting a conversational tone for five minutes. Adrian used his new tape-recorder & attached microphone to record most of it.

   At one point I hippie tried to offer him a cup of water but he pointedly refused to make eye contact with the hippie, turning his back to him continually and addressing the crowd in different directions.

   Eventually a someone from SPAC (Student Programs & Activities Center I believe), a girl who looked to be a student herself, came to tell him that he had to speak on the other corner of the quad, the "free speech corner" to which they always attempt to exile counterprotestors ("Yes, you CAN counterprotest, but over there in the appropriate designated location ::points to distant and forlorn corner of quad::") and other undesirables .
   To these attempts the crazy religious man responded "this is America, I preach whereever I want.. we have this thing called freedom of speech in America, I don't know how they do things in Somoa or whereever you're from" followed shortly by "you're not very pretty you know."
   I don't think Jesus would approve of those latter comments.

ASUCD Senate Renounces Sex, Approves Up to Third Base

Yesterday (Thursday) III
   Yesterday I had the misfortune of having to sit through four hours of the ASUCD Senate meeting. This was because I had to make the Quarterly Court Report, and the presiding parliamentarian, Vice President Paloma Perez and her boyfriend the Senate President Pro Tempore Chris Goran loathe me and manipulated the agenda so what ordinarily would be one of the first items on the agenda, "reports," didn't occur until four hours into the meeting.
   Perez also showed us her parliamentary skillz by speaking on substansive matters during a time when only senators, ie not her could speak, and after Senator Adam Barr called her on it, claiming she did somehow have that right.

   One major topic covered during the time I was there was whether or not ASUCD "promotes sex." Its true.
   A resolution under consideration contained the line "...while ASUCD does not promote sex..." (qualifying an endorsement of sex education for incoming freshmen) to which Senator Barr responded "I dunno about the rest of you, but I promote sex." Another senator pointed out that in order to claim that ASUCD officially doesn't support sex they'd have to have a resolution on the subject and vote on it. Eventually they concluded that ASUCD supports up to third base.
   No not really about the third base thing.

   Another major topic covered was whether or not a resolution supporting state legislation to prevent professors from indoctrinating students by requiring them to present both sides of ideological questions was inherently demeaning to students by the implication that students opinions are so easily swayed.


Today
   Today Kristy and I saw a peacock on campus. For really.