CalMUN Anaheim & the Rest of Last Week

   Last Week Monday I was at G Street Pub, and I ran into my former roommate Adrian.
   Later on I'd walked halfway back to my car (which was parked a few blocks away in front of the Foyerhouse) When Allan called me to report that he'd found Adrian looking none too lively on a parkbench. I hastily returned to G Street to retrieve him. As I walked back with him to the Foyerhouse again and we were passing Aggie Liquor, we saw Taylor & Matty (who had been lollygagging in front of G St when we left there) pull up and run in for more alcohol. Silly. Anyway, I reinstalled Adrian on the couch he always used to pass out on in our apartment.


   Last Wednesday I dropped my car off at the mechanic and then stopped by the police station to see what the status of the case was. The bad news is that they couldn't tell me anything because the DA is still deciding what to do with it, but the good news is the DA apparently is thinking about doing something about it. Also, the officer at the front desk came out from behind the bullet-proof glass to talk to me, which I thought was a nice touch.


   Last Thursday evening my internet was down and my car was at the mechanics, and my internet was down so I walked from campus to this party at I & 5th.
   As I was walking past Bistro 33 with a 40 of Steel Reserve (high gravity lager!) in a brown paper bag, I noticed that on of the two well-dressed gentlemen waiting in front of Bistro had handcuffs on his belt. Then I noticed the other had a police badge on his. Then that guy asked me how I was doing. wtf, DPD detectives?
   Anyway, since I had to be back in that quadrant in the morning to pick up my car anyway, and it would otherwise involve walking across town to get home, and then back again in the morning, the residents of the Foyerhouse were kind enough to let me slumber there (Thanks again guys, Team S unite! =D )


   Friday morning I drove down to So Cal without incident. Except I hit LA around rush hour so a normally 7-8 hour trip took 10 hours. Stopped by the hotel in Anaheim where the conference would be and then continued to Mission Viejo. Kristy had come up from San Diego right after work and was already chillaxing with my family when I got there. We went to local / most awesome ever Italian restaurant Salvatore's.

   Saturday I had to scamper asap back to Anaheim since the conference began at 8am. I chaired the International Law Commission again, this time discussing Reservations to Multinational Treaties. About 31 delegates in the committee, and they were suprisingly good especially considering it was the first time for most of them. I really wish the UC Davis team would return to CalMUN Anaheim, its a great way to start the year.
   My friend Nidia came by to help out on staff but we ended up not needing her. That evening more staff than usual had scampered off whence they came so the usual festivities were rather lacking. In particular, Saturday night activities just can't be the same without technical services director Vern.
   On the subject of Vern in particular, I thought it was pretty funny that when we were reading the conference evaluations afterwords, generally negative feedback was only met with laughter. "DPI [Dept of Public Information - Vern] wasn't very courtious" "everything was good but DPI could me more accomodating" "DPI was a jerk!" etc, we all look for the best ones to read aloud for our amusement.
   So the usual antics being somewhat lacking, I scampered off to Nidia's, which it turns out was within walking distance. There an impromptu party was quickly developing. Among others who showed up, I was particularly suprised to see some of Aaron's friends (since Aaron knows Nidia through me, a chain of acquantances is developing here).
   Anyway, it was irking me that Kristy was only about an hour away, and I missed her, so eventually I scampered off down to San Diego.

   On Sunday then, my drive back to Davis was even longer because I was coming from San Diego.

Court Minutes 06-10-25

   Okay that was so fun last week, I'm going to once again do a general summary of our Court meeting minutes, so you can all marvel at what an august body we are.

8:10 - We have quorum with five justices, but Justice Coady is running late so Vice Chief Harney, who is presiding, holds off calling to order. While we are meeting informally Justice Wheat urges us all to vote no on Proposition 90, saying it will in effect allow the government to seize by imminent domain a lot of lands that would otherwise be protected environmental areas. Justice Harney disagreed, and it went back and forth until someone else (jokingly) suggested they schedule a debate in the coffee house.
   Next I announced my distress at seeing the Wikipedia article of the day declaring that .999... equals exactly 1. Particularly alarming, at least two of the proofs offered were very easy to follow and seemed compelling. I, however, remain suspicious that the problem is with our math system and not reality.
8:18 - Meeting called to order. We discuss the latest developments in the ASUC Berkeley scandal, discuss the case we discussed last week just a little more (as Harney had been absent at the time and had some thoughts). It is proposed that for further practice and to really hash out our thoughts on the subject we will cobble together a brief unofficial opinion on our take on the case - Justices Wheat & Coady volunteer to head this.
   We unanymously accept the Senate's recommendation that "Student" be stricken from the Judicial Codes where it erroniously says "Student Court." We discuss who will Vice Chief for the next two weeks, in accordance with our Partitioned Vice-Chiefship Plan, and parli pro starts to get a bit wacky. Coady: "Lets move on to the next agenda item then, nominations for Vice Chief" Harney: "Alright its moved that we take nominations for Vice Chief, do I have a second?" Coady: "I second" Harney: "you can't second, you moved!" Coady: "No, I recommended, YOU moved, so I can second!" We were of course joking, we're not that anal-retentive. Coady declined a nomination, Wheat was nominated and accepted uncontested as the new Vice Chief (for the next two weeks).
   Then we got into a discussion as to when exactly one is impeached. We know that an impeachment that is not successful is still an impeachment (for example I was impeached three times but never removed), but the Chief Justice before me resigned the morning of her impeachment, so was she technically impeached?
   Harney brought up that he'd talked to Student Judicial Affairs and they had said they might consider transferring review of parking ticket appeals to us. While this seems at first kind of an odd thing to add to our repetoire, a lot of Chief Justices at other universities I've talked to have mentioned having such a duty as well, and I think it might be a good addition to our role, didn't seem to have any major drawbacks (other than increased workload and potentially less interesting cases, but I think we could deal), and students would probably feel better about appealing their parking tickets to us than to faceless SJA droids. We were all interested in having Harney look into this further.
8:50ish - Meeting adjourned.


   In other news, the ASUCD Bill to formally remove us from UCSA has been written and introduced I believe. It was written by none other than former UCSA Chair Brent Laabs.
   Also, regarding the Berkeley scandal, apparently the attempt to pilfer the ASUC Berkeley treasury has been dropped from the Senate Bill. Now all it does is say that everyone should work on better bylaws. Now there's a shocking new policy. Maybe we should legislate that we should legislate as well!


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