Fighting For Justice

ASUCD: Not a Government?
   So I went to the ASUCD Internal Affairs Commission meeting yesterday, to counteract the arguments made last week about how ASUCD does not need a Court.
   It is unclear whether the discussion last week was pre-planned, or just kind of happened. IAC commissioners first said "we were just kind of getting ideas out there to see how we felt about it and then we were going to talk to you if we wanted to do something," implying a planned discussion, but later other commissioners said it just randomly came up and bristled at the implication that they couldn't randomly bring up whatever they want. The minutes are unclear, since they indicate a jump from talking about something completely different to an in depth discussion about why we don't need a court with no transition at all.

   Commissioners insisted at length there was no room for a Court in a "business model," I tried to point out that it says in the first article of the ASUCD Constitution, and in the ASUCD Administrative plan, that ASUCD is explicitly not a business, but the commissioners didn't seem to be very open to seeing ASUCD as anything but a business... and businesses don't have Courts.

   I was also asked "how non-elected officials can serve this purpose." Honestly I wasn't at all prepared for such a complete lack of understanding of the American government system. Next week we are going to be prepared with choice quotes from the Federalist Papers.

   There were also some choice quotes in last week's minutes, such as "I have no respect for their legal opinions" (coming from "The Goodly Kai" himself I think). I'm going to try to get my hands on a copy of those minutes for more in depth review here.

   Next week its Round III at IAC, 5pm Monday in the MU Garrison Rm. Should make for an interesting debate about the very nature of ASUCD.


UCDMUNC 2006
   This weekend we hosted the UCD MUN Conference. I chaired Special Political & Decolonization Committee (SPD), discussing Chechnya & the Spratley Islands. I forgot my camera the first day, so I only got pictures of the clean-up afterwords.


Picture of the Day

Davis City Council candidate Rob Roy speaks during the ASUCD candidates forum. ASUCD president Darnell Holloway looks attentive while actually listening to his Ipod.
   I recently pulled some 99 pictures off my camera (all from the last week!), so there's a bunch on flickr already and will be more going up in the coming days as I get a chance to get around to them.

Previously on Emosnail - (Spotlight on Two Years Ago)
( 'The Best Week Ever,' the Shins Show, & UCDMUNC 2004... )

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Man I crave a burrito.