Oh hello I am a bunch of bricks with people's names in the Physical Plant lot. For some reason I am not in the ground with other bricks.

Feel like this is almost legitimate journalism/muckraking. Why aren't these bricks on paths with other donation bricks?

Feel like if I bought one of these I would feel ripped off/used/lame/sad.

Hope one day they get to be made into a path for people to walk on. Hope I get to buy one and put "Hope u are on a walk of shame" and then someone gets to walk of shame on it.

UPDATE: Someone's last name is Cooch...Thanks to Brian Van Parys for the tip.

Pie Eating Contest

I stopped by the Math Department's 3rd annual Pie Eating Contest.  I find the math department very intimidating because all of the professors have been drinking way too much coffee and were way too happy and upbeat and it was a change of pace from the history department.  I was not able to handle it.  

They had a lot of pies to choose from, which I thought was pretty cool.  The rules were to eat as much pie as you could in 31.4 seconds.

Senator Van Parys entered, along with Senator Caffey.  Brian Van Parys won the first round, but after that I left.  So I'm not really sure who won, but hopefully it was Brian Van Parys.

Edit:  Senator Brian Van Parys in fact won.  He got a tiara as a prize.

SGA Meeting 2/17/09

SGA Meeting awesome dude

8:08 - Meeting has started

8:10 - Student speakout - girl that is studying abroad is angry about the departmental budget cuts. I think it might be Lauren Ramsey. Either way, I think she has a good point or something. Oooo maybe it is Kait Hines because this girl seems pretty well informed about SGA, and Kait is abroad.

8:12 - Dr. Michael Cain is speaking about stuff now! He is in charge of the Center for the Study of Democracy.

8:15 - He is talking about the Center for the Study of Democracy. I don't know much about it, but it seems that he has gotten a lot of money donated to get the Center started.

8:18 - Apparently he was in the news 80 times last year. This is awesome and a sweet accomplishment.

8:19 - Andrew Bounds just told me that he did not vote last election. This is disgusting.

8:22 - I just realized who this guy is. He organizes all the political speakers and discussions on campus. I once emailed him saying that he should screen The Battle of Algiers because of its parallels with the war in Iraq. He seemed really enthused about it, and wanted more information, but I never got back to him. I think I will now.

8:39 - Dr. Cain is still talking, he is a good speaker. Also, Matt Fafoutis is looking very cute.

8:44 - People want to form a Paranormal Club. I could say a lot about this, but I think I will stick with that I am planning to vote against it. Many of my constituents groaned when I mentioned this club.

8:49 - Matt Smith has some legislation. He wants to urge the college not to cut funding from the Health Center. This is rad. Our Health Center is really lame. Okay it passed sweet!

8:54 - Resolution to show support for the abolition of the MD Death Penalty. Death penalty sucks cause it kills people which is hella lame.

8:57 - Senator Van Parys and I believe that we should create the New York City from the hit 80s film Escape from New York. This is a solid plan.

9:10 - Resolution about credit hours or something, I didn't pay attention/don't feel like writing about it.

9:24 - SGA is cutting its budget, woooo

9:33 - John Campbell just walked in, he is looking quite dapper.

9:36 - SGA may donate money to the academic departments. This is cool.

9:50 - blah blah blah

9:53 - Iben Ricket just said my name!

9:54 - Iben just said that I found environmentally friendly paint and Lauren Ashley clapped. I am so honored by her clapping.

10:08 - Meeting Adjourned

SGA meeting 2/10/09

SGA Meeting hellz yea bro!

The row of seating in Goodpaster 195 where Senator Van Parys and I usually sit has been taken up by administrators for the past two meetings. It's really lame, but you can't just ask them to move, cause it's kinda rude. Like I'm sure they would understand and move, but I don't want to be mean I guess.

8:06 - Meeting Started, Marlena Weiss is doing the roll call woooooo party hard

8:09 - Student Speakout

Stephanie Hartwick is complaining about departmental cuts. She is, as I guessed, from the Chemistry Department. A lot of kids in the chem dept. are pretty pissed due to the lack of being able to keep the big machine running (I don't know what it's called) and the lack of chemicals.

Even thought it's only the chemistry department complaining about budget cuts, I think they have a really valid point.

EWWWW she wants to use special carry over and SGA funds to support the academic departments. Lame. We need that money to buy pizza for every club! All kidding aside, I don't think SGA funds should go towards this.

8:12 - She is still complaining about stuff. Now complaining about the new paper towel and toilet paper dispensers.

8:13 - Sunny is responding to the student speakout. She is wearing a very nice green shirt, I approve. Also a cool necklace. I am paying more attention to her fashion than to her actual speech.

8:18 - Sunny wants to put SGA funds towards assisting the academic departments

8:22 - Okay apparently most people are in favor of putting funds towards the academic departments, so I guess it probably is a good idea since they are all smarter than I am.

8:25 - Career Development Center presentation! Amanda Walker is our guest speaker, and she graduated from SMCM in 2001. She handles internships and federal jobs at the Career Development Center.

8:26 - Okay now another lady is talking about the Career Development Center, I don't know who she is though. It's in Glendening Hall, and the Center is very pretty.

8:28 - LOLZ Calvin Richards was about to walk in here, until he realized an SGA meeting was going on. The CDC has a website, and it's pretty cool I guess. I am still set on lifeguarding for the fourth summer in a row, so I'm somewhat disinterested. Also I just found the Spellcheck function on Blogspot, which is very useful.

8:31 - Actually this site is pretty sweet, I'm going to check it out. Here's the link.

8:42 - I am really hungry. When I get back to my room I think I will eat Cheez-Itz.

8:45 - That was a pretty solid presentation on the Career Development Center.

8:46 - Culinary Club wants to become a club. I was going to vote against this, but the student proposing the club is from Prince George, so I think I will support her.

8:47 - Cartoon Club wants to become Illustration Ink. We passed their resolution!

8:48 - Chris Rodkey wants to give three hammocks from SGA to Rotoract for Christmas in April. These are the same hammocks that SGA set up during the summer that broke due to rain rusting.

8:55 - blah blah blah more stuff

8:58 - Announcements etc.

9:02 - Goddamit, Carbon Leaf won the thing for World Carnival. I was really hoping for bloc party or cobra starship

9:17 - Meeting Adjourned

SGA Meeting 2/3/09

8:00 - When I got to the meeting I got a call for hospital Duty. So I drove for two hours from SMCM to the hospital before I could finally get back to the meeting.

10:00 - Okay just got here. We are discussing the footbridge. I am on the Buildings and Grounds Committee, and I have spent hours talking about this.

10:07 - I am really glad I missed this meeting due to Hospital Duty. Thank you student that was feeling sick. This meeting is really boring.

10:15 - Chip Jackson talked about the various options again. I think he would make a really good Dad.

10:17 - I am in favor of the bridge. I think I am in the minority. I just really like bridges a lot.

10:23 - Finally done. SGA has voted to not consider the idea of a footbridge.

10:24 - Liam is talking about making a committee thing to look at if the college is keeping the students rights or something. He is cute so I voted for it.

10:32 - Talking about the search for a new President of the college. I don't really get it. Sometimes I think I suck at SGA.

10:34 - Senator Van Parys just told me that I in fact don't suck.

10:41 - Adjourned

I got mentioned in The Point News!

Okay Kinda mentioned. My good friend Michelle Ladas wrote an article about the lice outbreak from a few weeks ago, and how to protect yourself. I liked the article because I recognized all the people that were interviewed.

I especially liked it because of what Brian Van Parys said: "I saw some of the PG RA's wearing swim caps and gloves during checkout".

That was me, protecting myself from lice with a swim cap. It's really the only protection from lice. So, I was excited. The last time I was in The Point News they used a really ugly photo of me, so right now my grudge has been lessened, but it is still there. Never forget.

Also the article gave further proof that Anna Kasicky's mom is insane. When I met Anna's mom during my first Reading Days, she took Anna, Ryan Whiteis, and myself out to dinner. She accused me of various illicit activities, which I did not appreciate, especially when Ryan was there, and he actually does such things. Regardless, I still love Anna's mom.

Overall a pretty excellent article! I think it's like on Page 3 or 5?

SGA Meeting 11/18

SGA MEETING YO!

8:05 - Oh snap we are starting early tonight! I am in fact present for tonight's meeting, much like the other meetings.

8:08 - Oooo Mary Walters is here to talk about the English Club. She is so nice! Mary is trying to resurrect the English club, exciting!

8:09 - Student Investment Group Amendment. They are debating it. I don't really follow because I stopped caring about the SIG after I found out it was about investing. Lamesauce.

8:17 - Oh goodness we all started clapping and I am not sure why. I think Jeremy Pevner thanked Nathan for all his hard work, and then Jesse did the same thing. How cute :]

8:18 - Officer reports, goodness the meeting is almost over already!

8:22 - Matt Fafoutis told us all to be thankful. Senator Van Parys and I hugged each other. It was cute. :]

8:52 - Meeting Adjourned

woooo