I had a dream last night in which Wally Adeyamo stole my leftover egg salad sandwich.

I don't like egg salad sandwiches.

My first thought was Jonny Moseley? Wtf? But the more I thought about it, the more this makes a whole lot of sense. Although recent history has had very prominent political figures speak at commencement (and I had my money on another former Clinton administration member, given his warm welcome to campus, perhaps even Hillary), but there is a history of eclectic and entertaining speakers coming to campus for commencement.

While Moseley doesn't have any direct ties to Berkeley, he is a Bay Area native and does have a good story to tell. He also seems like a good and comfortable speaker, based on his appearances on talk shows and Saturday Night Live. Kudos to the Californians for deciding to go for a speaker that is (potentially) not controversial, calling for class and campus unity in this particularly tumultuous period. That decision took courage, desptite what others might say. Of course, we still need to see if he does, in fact, give a good speech. I look forward to hearing the reports.

Now, just out of curiosity, who do you think should be the next two commencement speakers? Weigh in fellow bloggers and students and let me know who want for your commencement speaker.

For Spring 2004, I'd really like to get a prominent author up to speak. Kurt Vonnegut and Lawrence Ferlinghetti are both on list, though they're also quite old at this point. A good surprise/counter-culture pick could be punk-rock/literary polymath Henry Rollins.

Hmmmm, Henry Rollins for Commencement 2004. Not a bad idea.

Oh yeah, I hope all 41 members of SJP up for hearings get suspended at least for being self-righteous and stupid, if nothing else. Also, anyone else notice that Salam Rafeedie was strangely silent in this article?

Ronald Cruz is a fucking irrational moron. Trying to use the UC system to make up for inadequacies in high school education is like trying to cure a brain tumor with aspirin.

Angry Clam is very very anti-Gray Davis, I don't see anything particularly wrong with this. While I will admit that it is a veyr politically-driven move, it is something that could stand to be corrected, particularly since the reparations would go to non-profit groups and not to individuals. I wouldn't exactly call it slavery reparations either, it's very focused and specific, unlike the broad-based reparations proposals that have been bandied about in the past (and which I'm adamantly against). This, however, is essentially rectifying insurance fraud by providing funds to disadvantaged communities as a whole. Seems more or less kosher to me, more so if this wasn't an election year.

Thanks, Rory.

Hey, Rory Milner! While I appreciate your referencing our conversations on Nazism/Socialism in your blog, my name's Dave Duman, not Durham.=^)

CalStuff is more or less on the nose with regards to the Greek violations, although if there was a staffing issue at Chi Psi Luau it must've been an amount of staff and/or alcohol-serving staff issue, since they did have some security there, at least guys working the entrances and the street in front of the house.

With regards to the issue of Greek sanctions, I don't see this as having much of an impact since only a fraction of parties were ever registered anyway. If anything, the rules for throwing parties should become more lax, this would allow more houses to have parties that were university-registered since they wouldn't have to deal with red tape. Leave in the requirements of outside security and the time curfew, but cut back the ohter restrictions. There will be more registered, and thereby safer, parties.

Glad Berkeley decided not to vote on their moronic divestment proposal in any form.

Also, to CalStuff. To be fair, if you look at timing, I was the first to post on the suicide from Evans, although I didn't write anything expansive since I didn't want to speculate and make unfounded statements and then subsequently have to remove posts out of embarassment.=^)

Cheers.

We just had a blast with this all afternoon in the Squelch office. For your greater edification:

World RPS Society

Here's to wasting time and not studying.

Oh yeah, please read AngryClam. His feelings on this potential Berkeley City Council resolution is echoed by me.

It's a steaming load of hypocritical horseshit.

I just couldn't resist. For those of you who are interested, here is my exact post (from April 11th) that this mysterious "Alicel" took issue with. It's good to see that the SA political machine is at work trying to remove any damaging material about their candidates (as if this really affected any votes).

NOTE: Repost from 4/11/02
"For the first time, Praglib is posting ASUC insider information. Apparently, beloved icon of ASUC-lifers, his chin-ness Tony Falcone, is already recruiting people for the Academic Senate. This is particularly strange considering that he is the AAVP candidate and has not, in fact, won the office. He is using the Office of the President to do this right now. Now, this tactic is definitely unethical (not sure if it violates bylaws) because he could be influencing votes in this manner by making recruitments and appointments for authority he doesn't have. Wait till you've won the election, Tony, then you'll have all the time in the world to buy friends with appointments.

Also, many ASUC politicos say that Tony will win because he has the frosh dorm vote. This may be true, but I have a friend in the dorm in which he is an RA, and nobody that I've talked to there can stand him.

And of course, in one last tasty detail:

Tony Falcone, that intrepid RA, is one of the RA's in Putnam hall, where the now-infamous UC Berkeley amateur porno was shot. Read about the video at Angry Clam.

I got this in my email today. In the grand rhetorical tradition I'll just let the text deconstruct itself.

To:
Subject: criticism about a posting


Hi,
Awhile ago I read an entry about the suspected spammer of the anti-student action emails. I remember you writing that he/she lived next door to ASUC candidate Tony Falcone, and that "Noone can stand him." This opinion about Tony was either written at the same time that you talked about the spammer or at the same time you talked about the sex video in the units in which Tony was an RA. (I forget which.)
My point is this: I think that "Noone can stand him" is an extremely inappropriate thing to post. It does not serve to make any sort of point. Even if it DID serve to make a point, you STILL should NOT be posting things such as that.
I would like you to reply to me saying that you will delete that part of your entry from your website and that you will post an apology.
Thanks.

Alice