almost there

Less than one and one half hours til the nomination period for VP Social closes. How exciting...

Elections

I see why Scott Bedard uses Arpie Gee as a proxy. They're both long-winded and aggressive. He thinks the board should throw out the CEO and such since elected officials acting in these positions is undemocratic. Should he get his way and the process restart, we will not have an SFUO VP Social for the fall semester.

Update: the motion passed. Also, in an unusual turn of events, Ted Horton, notorious for abstaining last year, was the only member of the SFUO executive to vote on the motion.

Fun fact

Standing for the anthem "facilitates knee-jerk, blind nationalism."

<3 SFUO Exec

Jay-G dramas

Seamus admitted a few minutes ago in his exec update at the BOA meeting that there were interesting allegations brought forward about former VP Social John-Sofie Billy, that there was a full day of professional mediation, and that the Disciplinary Committee was called about it.

Unfortunately there were no details given out, and he asked board members to wait until the in-camera session to ask any questions.

That's a lot of drama for someone who resigned to raise a child - perhaps I was mistaken about his reasons for departure. Why was the Disciplinary Committee called? that's a pretty rare happening. I bet he ate a guy.

Jean Sofia Guillaume: A Resignation, or, Post-101 Week News

Many a word has been spoken about J. Sofia and his departure from the SFUO. Not wanting you to wonder about the gossip any further more, I readily bring to you all of the truthfacts.

Once upon a time, in early June, Sofia and David Auguste, former HSS VP Social Franco, were making sweet, sweet love while doing handstands. Sof later discovered he was pregnant with Davey's lovechild. He made an Executive decision to keep the child, and leave the SFUO so he could focus on being a good father (mother?) to the darling baby. To avoid the embarassment Ted Horton will surely face when he soon starts to show his baby belly, JSG ran long before coming to term. Dave Dave followed behind so they could get married and start a family, becoming the third VP Social this year not to complete a full term.

The first was, of course, WSSA VP Social Bethany Schock, who left the post very early in the summer due to a bad case of gingivitis. I don't really blame her; you can't run a smooth 101 Week with bad breath and swollen gums.

Thanks to all of our lovely VP Social friends, there are few student governments at uO currently not in the throes of bye-bye election. Wanting to be like all the cool kids, Catriona Czyrnyj broke free of the shackles of 101 Week and got her filthy drank on with her Chapeaus-noirs, or Survivors for the laywoman, and 101ers. Superpowered ESS President Zac Brunet summarily impeached her for it. To top it all off, CSSA VP Social Carson Wilcox was never elected, merely appointed for the summer by the executive, and has been forced to step down and run in the by-election to make things more legal. If not elected, he'll bring our total to 5 departed socials. Boo-yah.

While we're down in south campus, there's a referendum happening right now to change the current Engineering Students' Society / Computer Science Student Association structure to be CBY vs SITE. When asked to comment, a fencesitting Computer Engineer replied, "We have a students' society?"

At the last city council meeting, Moose and Rocks didn't stand up for the national anthem, Ken Joly reported. I don't have a joke here - only a plea from former US President George W. Bush for Canadians to man up and declare them terrorists.

That's all the news for now. Irregularly scheduled updates will continue as always.