Special ASUCD Spurious Commission on Heraldry & Superlatives

   Court meeting this evening. We (1) Set the time & place for the Case 34 Hearing as next Wednesday at 7:10pm, MU Mee Rm; (2) Granted the Plaintiff's motion to have two counsels speak for each side rather than one; (3) Elected a new Vice Chief Justice -- Tim Coady; (4) I read the new "Presiding Officer Suppliment" (to the Judicial Handbook which doesn't yet exist); (5) I introduced Judicial Directive 14, which codifies the position of Inter-Collegiate Judicial Federation (ICJF) Liaison, which already exists (Justice Coady); (6) We reported new contacts to the ICJF: contact has been reestablished with UCI; the UC Merced president will send me the Chief Justice's contact info as soon as there is one (apparently Justices were being sworn in down there this very same evening); we've made contact with Antelope Valley College, Puget Sound sometihng and something else (Iowa?); (7) We discussed the changes that had been made to Judicial Proposal 7.
   Though in an actual indictment hearing, on which this proposal is modelled, only the prosecutor presents, many people present at the IAC meeting on Monday found this hard to stomach. I found myself arguing with Lead Party Chairman Schwab against rights of Justices (their right to be at their own indictment), which I thought was rather funny. Anyway, regardless of the theory and precedent of real indictments, it became clear it would be very hard to make the Senate understand, so it was decided to instead disallow the prosecutor from presenting. Instead they would simply submit a charge sheet alleging specific charges over specific events that violate specific bylaws.
   To further clarify things, I went ahead and prepared an example charge sheet, in which the fictional Justice Vader is charged with various things such as sleeping with the Defendant and being the cause of the Deepthroat Incident. Calls on witnesses such as ASUCD President Neustrom & Chief Justice Kenobi.


The Special ASUCD Spurious Commission on Heraldry & Superlatives
   Once the Court meeting had concluded, the Special ASUCD Commission on Heraldry & Spuriousness (SCHS) convened. ( Warning Gratuitous Nerdery )

it has been officially determined that Steven "Darth Steve" Ostrowski cannot be considered a "Sith Lord" nor given the title of "Darth," but should instead be rightfully considered "Sith Ostiarius Ostrowski."


   Then Justice Harney & I went to dollar pint night at Sudwerks and I met up with my friends RoseJean Weller & Shemek.

Changing of the Guard

   At Senate today the six senators elected a year ago made their farewell speeches and were replaced by six new senators. In their farewell speeches, Senator Spencer Higgens announced his intention to run next quarter as the Focus Presidential Candidate, Senator Kareem Salem announced his intention to run as the Lead Presidential Candidate, and Senator Jonathon "Independant" Sanders --who almost exactly a month ago left the Lead party with "no plans on running for office on another slate in the future" announced his intention to run as the Focus Vice Presidential Candidate. The ASUCD Advisor / SGAO then completely overstepped their authority and gave the six outgoing senators the certificates of election that the Elections Chairman had refused to issue last year (stating that he could not in good conscience certify the election after the qualifications for office had been retroactively changed). Technically this would finally make these outgoing senators real senators, at least for a few minutes until the new ones were sworn in -- but lacking the Elections Chairman's signature I guess they're not really certificates of election.

   As I'm still in office, this bring the total number of Senators I've served with as Chief Justice to 57.


Inaccurate Tasering
   I was also very amused today that our paper the Cal Aggie carried a "guest editorial" from the UCLA Daily Bruin titled "UCSA Taser Resolution Inaccurate, Uninformed." Coming from a school that not only is still a member of UCSA (the UC Student Assn), but was the location of the tasering incident itself, this chastisement is so much stronger than if it had come from us.
   In conclusion, the staff of UCSA should be tasered.