Special ASUCD Spurious Commission on Heraldry & Superlatives

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   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. It currently consists of jurists & ethics experts such as Michael Aguilera, Tim Coady, Kris Fricke, Joe Harney, & expert on nerd-dom Brent Laabs (an ex officio member by virtue of being the President of DRAGON). The agenda at hand was the alarming inflation of people claiming to be, or claiming others to be, ASUCD Sith (remember, the dark side guys in Star Wars).
   Firstly it was decided that it must be recognized that there are various levels of Sithship. We have determined these to be, in decreasing order of importance: Sith Lord, Apprentice, Acolyte, Vicar, Deacon ... Ostiarius (derived from the last of four minor orders in Roman Catholicism, translates to doorkeeper). More or less.
   Secondly, 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.

Comments

[sostrowski.livejournal.com]

Although I would never seek the vain title of Master of the ASUCD Sith, I don't see anyone else considering themselves Sith. As such, for there to be a true ranking there would have to be people superior to me. But I do enjoy the connection you made between the Catholic Church and the Sith, recently the Church has been very Jedi like with this world peace deal.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Its not to imply the catholic church is sith-like, indeed I commented elsewhere that I was rather opposed to such a connection that seemed to be the only supporting evidence for "darth molnar"

A Sith Lord, Apprentice, & Acolyte have been positively identified in ASUCD. Remind me and I'll identify them for you in a week or two when there's less time remaining when I have to work with everyone (=

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

I meant to add, the Catholic Church just has the most excellent titles and I'm more familiar with them.

[sostrowski.livejournal.com]

I think recent events should allow me to appeal my title.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Explain.

[oeaschwab.livejournal.com]

I am not sure what I am more strangely proud of; getting Cari Ham to wear a LEAD shirt for a quarter or getting Kris Fricke to argue against the rights of the court.... tough call. So the question on degree of proudness lies on this comparison: Was Cari Ham more hardcore Student Focus than Kris Fricke was hardcore Court? Thus, whichever person was more hardcore, the act of turning them against their hardcoreness receives more of my pride.

However, one must also contemplate whether getting Cari Ham to wear a F.U.C.K. shirt or getting Kris Fricke to hate people with Mohawks would be more proud worthy.