velu@eneevax.UUCP (Velu Sinha) (11/21/85)
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Keywords: monarchy, king, student govenment
Hear Ye Hear Ye.
NEWS FLASH *** NEWS FLASH *** NEWS FLASH *** NEWS FLASH *** NEWS FLASH ***
The University of Maryland, on November 20, 1985
the Royal Maryland Monarchist Party
was swept into office
as the new
Executive Council of the Student Government Association
of the University of Markland
His Highness King Tom II has announced the coronation festivities to commence
December 3 on the grounds of the College park Campus. Also swept into
office were Lord High Chancellor Duke Sir Paul, Her Majesty Queen Virginia,
and Chancellor of the Exchequer James.
The first item on the agenda, according to King Tom, is to build a beer
filled moat around campus. According to University officials, this proposal
is under consideration - but unlikely since the drinking age in Maryland is
21, and it would be impossible to control access to the moat - which is to
be filled with 28 different brands of lager and stout ale, to be seperated
by a system of locks. 27 of these brands are to be imported from the Old
Country, while the 28th is to be a domestic brand, Knoxbrau, from the King's
private brewery.
Each of the officers was elected into office by 54 percent of the voting
student population, with the exception of the King, who recieved 56 percent
of the vote.
The oldest continuous political party on campus, the Monarchists have
participated in no fewer than 13 SGA elections, but until recently, they
were unable to capture any significant percentage of the vote. After
winning a 20% block last semester, the party changed their campaigning
tactics this semester, abolishing the under $20 budget of previous campaigns
and replacing it with a zero-budget strategy.
more to follow...
David Hsu (hsu@eneevax) Velu Sinha (velu@eneevax)
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Long Live King Tom.
(this is NOT a joke)lee@rochester.UUCP (Lee Moore) (11/26/85)
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I remember the Monarchist Party from when I was a weedhopper at the U. of
Maryland. They ran the only minority candidate during (I believe) my
junior year. At the presidential debates people kept asking him
why he dressed like a viking warlord when he was, in fact, black.
Something about historical accuracy... I believe he had some story about
black Irishmen or something...
The Monarchist party really only had one serious plank
and that was a system whereby the student activities fees would partly be
distributed on the basis of number people who checked-off on a form
which clubs and organizations that they thought should get their money.
(The Monarchists called this the "Chekhov System" but its the same thing.)
Thus each check mark that a person puts down is worth a certain amount
of money. The system was partially tried one year. The forms were given
out and collected but the Student Gov. decided not to give out any money.
Never the less, the results of the tally were interesting. Most clubs
didn't even have a tiny fraction of the 30K students as their members but
many people checked-off clubs that they weren't members of. For
example, the Science Fiction Club was in line to get their budget
quadrupled by this procedure. Presumably, all the SF reader gave them
a check. A bad part of this whole procedure was that some clubs
started advertising for votes. The Comic Book Club was particularly
bad.
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