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Former VP Social Matt Joseph was denied a return to the BOA by the students in Common Law. Former VP Social candidate Alex Chaput was welcomed with eight sets of open arms to the job he almost earned last winter. Former Presidential candidate Tyler Steeves continues to win seats everywhere but the SFUO Exec, and he just might get the big job next year if he keeps up the reputation building he's got going on. It seems like the Socialist Party of Campus might not survive another election.

But you already know that. Other bloggers feed you news or gossip. Fed For Thought feeds you lulz and exaggerations. However, you may not know that at yesterday's meeting, two members of the CSSA Executive have tendered their resignations. In two weeks time it will be official, bringing them to five vacant positions. If you're a computer scientist looking to get involved, this looks like a good time.

Lulz: Their executive *still* consists of six members, which is half again the number of filled positions it had two years ago. Under Christopher Millward's presidency, there were merely four executive members. Also, word on the street is that all the drama down south is over a girl. Silly awkward nerd boys. You shouldn't let the vaginal sex interfere with business.

One last thing: I received an email from someone(s) calling himself/herself/themselves "Hikin," indicating that "big things are coming", and you should all "watch the horse." What horse? The Gee-Gee? The zodiac year of the horse, coming in 2014? The Rideau Carleton Raceway? The uO Equestrian Club? Some other horse entirely? Do we even have an Equestrian Club? So many questions, so few answers. I'm at least as curious as you are.

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.

skandaluz!!

If I waited til tomorrow, I could say I hadn't blogged in a month. I'm taking that away from me. I'm such a dream-killer.

Why the lack of updates you ask? The summer isn't nearly as exciting as the elections were. Probably because how little else goes on besides constant planning. Still, there's enough n00z for an update once every just-under-a-month.

Now. I blog. I write. Computers to donate words for those students scholarly reading weblogger ado in the internet. Keep Seamus in review. Type til the executif has no visible shortfall about ... it.

That was some blog poetry for pi approximation day. Now to get serial.

As you have heard from the other bloggers I am sure, our new Marketing Assistant is a CFS cultist from Sudbury, our Federation speaks English as flawlessly as they speak French, and the last BOA wasn't terribly blog-worthy except for a mild outbreak of heterosexism, which is sexually transmitted, by the way. That, and the horrible case of privatization I caught from a wild night with Larry. I'm still trying to wash that off.

What you may not have heard is the latest scandals behind the scenes.

My favourite? Ted Horton is pregnant, and doesn't know who the mother is.

He isn't the first male politician to carry a child, nor the first to have a terrible movie made about it, but he might be the first to require a maternity test. I'll have to do a little more research.

Confused? Understandably. Men don't usually carry children. But according to ancestry.com, Ted's great great great great grandfather had a child out of wedlock with a seahorse. Apparently the bastard somehow ended up human enough in appearance to attract a woman, and Ted inherited his childbearing hips from this lineage.

Until the deal to partner with the administration is finalized, Mr. Horton is the SFUO's bike sharing program. Even yours truly has to give a blood sample because I might be the other parent. Results aren't expected until mid-September, which if he decides to keep the child, will be into his second trimester.

The other major scandal of late is that Roxanne might be embezzling. At the very least she's redirecting almost half of what should be levied to the federated bodies elsewhere. The money allocated for federated bodies this year is 44% lower* than it was last year, which she attributes to a 5% decrease in the estimated number of incoming students. That doesn't even pretend to make sense. She also claims that the numbers from last year were wrong. But she was VP Finance last year too. So she either made a massive error and gave tens of thousands of dollars too many to the Fed bodies last year and perhaps should have been impeached for it, or she's making a massive error right now and, depending where it turns out that money is disappearing to, should be impeached for it. Hmm... you're making quite a mess for yourself, Roxy. We're all waiting to hear what this business is all about.

*The "44% lower" figure comes from the budget approved by the BOA, but the fed body VPs Finance are getting a lot of variance about what their numbers and levy will be. Every time she's asked she has new news for them, and usually it's that they have less money than she'd promised previously.

In other news, a BOA director is trying to take over The Fulcrum. Good thing we have all these bloggers now to keep the student politicians in line while the mainstream media has its puppet strings attached. Better thing that we bloggers have bloggers to keep us in line. But who will blog the bloggers' bloggers? Or blog those bloggers' bloggers' bloggers?

I won't say any more about the Fulcrum business though. I'll leave that to Ken Joly to better know this evil director.

I'd like to take a quick (and rare) moment of actual seriousness though to toss my sympathies out to the Fed exec and staff as many of them are close to Sunday night's tragedy. My bloggy heart goes out to you.

- AppleDave