Intellectual Destitution

   The Model United Nations club at UC Davis (MUN) recently received $750 from Club Finance Council (CFC) to partially subsidize the upcoming UC Berkeley MUN Conference (UCBMUNC '05). In order to qualify for this money, MUN officers had to convince SPAC that they needed the money.

   During this conference, the MUN officers have planned a "team dinner" whereupon the 37 participants from Davis will eat at a $40 per person restaurant, and it will be subsidized by MUN club money down to $20 a plate (a $740 total subsidation).
   Club officers emphasize that this money is not the CFC money. I stated that the argument that there is no relationship between the two sources of money is the kind of financial knavery I'd expect to only hear only during an ASUCD Senate meeting.

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   When it was discussed at the meeting I grilled the officers but they were recalcitrant on the subject. Shortly thereafter we were served up the topic of "sovreignty" to practice debating. After numerous people loudly grumbled that it was a boring topic, I suggested that maybe we practice debating by using the "Team Dinner" as a topic. Secretary General Myung pointedly ignored the suggestion. I found it quite distinctly shady.

   In addition to it being in all likelihood grave misuse of CFC funds (in that we obviously didn't need the CFC money), I object to this because the dinner is STILL way out of my price range.
   I have an appointment with the Club Finance Council Program Director tomorrow morning at 9am, at which point I shall probably file a formal complaint and the SPAC people will contact the MUN officers to establish a hearing.

Correcting All Wrongs

One day Fricke will learn to be a man. Until then, he will continue to exercise his perceived divine right to 'correct all wrongs' and inflate an already bloated ego, which is only representative of his own insecurities. It all comes down to self-image...

-Anonymous comment, IP address 67.182.174.115.

   Two more things about Ms Johnson's claim that I'm a privileged white man: (1) I'm a first generation immigrant from Brazil! (bet you didn't see that coming); (2) Just the other week I was being accused in the Opinion Section for being a COMMUNIST, and now I'm accused of the opposite?!


   Tomorrow at 9am as mentioned I have an appointment with the CFC Program Director (to "correct all wrongs!"), at 11:30 I will be speaking during the Coffee House forum in favour of the "Judicial Reform Act," a ballot measure for next week's election (how I've missed the campaign speeches!), and during the Senate meeting in the evening I'm going to speak in favour of the bill I wrote which would allow Court members to join everyone else on campus in the ability to write legislation (its our "divine right!"), on the condition that if challenged such legislation goes to Campus Judicial Board, not us.


Picture of the Day

Kris & Kristy

   I finally got the film that was in my pentax for literally around two years out and developed, and then decided to live cheaply and just scan the negatives on campus. They were all grainy, including the unexposed sections, which leads me to believe its either from the film being in the camera so long, the scanner, or otherwise not my fault. I really wish I could get the graininess out of this picture and others but alas I lack the skills.

Previously on EMOSNAIL
   Two Years Ago Today: Cake or Death -or: adventures with shrimp -- listening to Therion and kickin it in Bixby
   Year Ago Today:
      Being Unforgiving -RECENTLY DECLASSIFIED -- and fishing for parking
      Related -Kristy and I have dinner at Ben & Bev's.


Related
   Jesus thinks I am divine.
   Alternate versions of todays picture. (it was originally b&w, not sepiatone)
Tonight DCR endorsed their former archrivals, the Lead ASUCD political party. Another clear sign of just how weird things are getting. (Last I heard DCR was making their endorsement contingent upon Lead expunging Tiqula "the Black Caeser" Bledsoe from their party)