The Agrinautica

A Shocking Revelation
   Today I went up to the dreaded Third Floor of the Memorial Union, the imperial seat of the ASUCD government, and my world was turned upside down.

   It is generally known that during my first quarter at this esteemed institution, ASUCD Vice President Beaman authored a constitutional amendment which changed the ASUCD Supreme Court to the "ASUCD Student Court," and its Chief Justice to "Chairman."

   Today however, ASUCD Senator Adam Barr and I were looking at that legislation, and much to our complete shock, it does NOT make the changes it is believed to. It changes the Supreme Court to the "ASUCD Court," but doesn't even mention the Chief Justice.
   I checked all the constitutional amendments since that time and none of them made the change. The current editions of the ASUCD Constitution and Judicial Codes refer to my position as the Chairman, and the court as the "Student Court" however. Without changes via constitutional amendments the only explanation can be that the changes were NOT made through "legal" ASUCD process!
   Student Gov't Administrative Office (SGAO) head Kristin Heinen herself was extremely perplexed by this and was kind enough to volunteer to thoroughly investigate.

   I really am truly shocked by this. I've spent the last two years resenting that officially I was a chairman where I should be a chief justice, now it appears that there may be no basis for the chairman claim at all?


Does This Add Up?
   The background for 2001 ASUCD Constitutional Amendment #1 states that in the seven years the Court had existed at that point, there had been eight cases, five of which were in 1995. A year ago we were working on Case # 21, the first of six cases we heard last year. This means in a little over a year there'd have had to have been 12 cases in order for these numbers to add up.
   Seriously, wtf people?


Big Brother Comes to ASUCD
   While I was up there it came to my attention that the president a member of the inner circle of our local chapter of Students for an Orwellian Society is going to be running for senate this quarter. We had a brief discussion of how Big Brother's benevolent philosophies relate to ASUCD election codes.
   A nearby aspiring ward heeler*, the infamous Ken Bloom who was worshipping him at the time, asked me what I knew about the current IRS investigation against ASUCD. I denied any knowledge of the existance of such an investigation or any such "IRS."


   Incidently yesterday in an interview with our staff here at E.M.O.S.N.A.I.L., initiator of the investigation Mr. Birman said he was "totally in favo[u]r" of blogging, and in reference to pot pies said "I rank them higher than haggis and steak and kidney pies."


*Today's word of the day


In Other News: FLOGGING MOLLY tomorrow (Thursday)!!!


Related
   Year Ago Sunday: Proxy Wars in the ASUCD Courtroom - Case # 21
   Year Ago Tuesday: ASUCD Retreat '03 - All the top officials of ASUCD spend a weekend in three cabins up by lake tahoe. Throw in alcohol and hot tubs, is it a new MTV reality show? No its the annual ASUCD retreat! Apparently though this year its gonna be on halloween?? I sure as heck won't be going if its on halloween and I have a feeling no one else will be either.
   Year Ago Yesterday: Taking Back Monday - Taking Back Sunday plays on the quad. Like so many other things last fall, this would cause some a little ASUCD drama later on.
   Year Ago Today: Snapple Piracy - I actually defied all odds and got back the $2 a snapple machine stole from me. Also I learned in PHY137 that in order to firebomb a city there must be 5 lbs of combustable material per square foot.


This Entry Rated: PG - for references to ASUCD