The Agrinautica

   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.

   The UCSA Board of Directors voted No Confidence in their chairman our own Brent Laabs. Laabs subsequently resigned. This is not expected to improve relations between UC Davis & the UC Student Association.
   At the same meeting UCSA voted to oppose Proposition 209, which is all good and well but well, its ten years too late. The UC Davis Grad Student Assn (GSA) voted against the No Confidence vote and against the Affirmative Action support bill -- UC Davis Undergrad representatives were avoiding the meeting entirely.

   Really I'm just writing this to scoop the Aggie. (=


   In other news, I think I'm getting sick. )= Also I played poker again today. Allan Rae went all in, but him and this other guy had been doing that a bunch just to scare people I think, and I had a pair of aces which I thought was pretty decent so I called him on it -- but he had some magical combination of cards that I didn't really understand but apparently it was better. d=


   Also, thinking about writing a Letter to the Editor to the Daily Cal (the UC Berkeley paper) regarding the current attempt of their student gov't majority party to use $22,600 for their personal benefit. On the plus side, a letter from the ASUCD Chief Justice would probably be pretty novel to them, on the negative side though, even though its not my jurisdiction, its an equivalent jurisdiction, and I'm not sure how appropriate it would be for me to weigh in on it like that.


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