Nomination Form -- Spring 2006 Awards

Instructions:

On the next page you will find the ballot for the Spring 2006 awards.

Please circle one candidate for each category. We ask that you only vote in categories for which you have seen most of the presentations. You may vote in a category if you've missed one, but please abstain from categories for which you feel unable to make an informed judgment. The word "corpus" indicates that an individual's nomination is based on his or her performance in more than one debate during the course of the semester.

Deadline &Announcement:

Awards will be given out during the Elections Meeting. The Deadline for returning the ballot will be 10 pm Tuesday, April 25^th.

Please drop off hard copies of the ballots at tomorrow’s OC or at the WASH-Weatherman debate on Tuesday evening. If this is not possible, e-mail responses to keithedwhite@gmail.com (just click reply).

Some VP Appreciation:

I give my sincere thanks to the many members who lent a hand during the nomination process. Gene Lepley and Ben DeForest provided excellent records and other considerable aid.

And finally, thank you to all the people that gave such excellent literary presentations and debates throughout the semester. I hope every future Vice President can have such a high caliber membership to draw from in following semesters. Culling down the considerable work of the Society was no easy task, speaking volumes about the quality of our members.

Provisional Literary Presentation:

1) Tim Gray: Classified section of the London Times

2) Ethan Hamlin: Three Poems ‘Girls are like Cigarettes’, ‘You Asked me where you would go and I said, ‘August 23^rd, 2003)

3) Lauren Palmer: ‘The Down Beat’

4) Chen Song: (corpus: Politically Correct Bedtimes Stories, Time Traveler’s Wife, ‘Parsley’)

5) Dan Herrmann (Donald Barthelme’s short story ‘The School’)

Member Original Literary Presentation:

1) Jamie Trowbridge: ‘Choose your Own Language’

2) Caitlin Stapleton: ‘History Part I’

3) Pablo Mann: ‘Tribute to Girlfriend’

4) Tara Ebrahimi: ‘Turtle’

5) Gwen Kirk (‘Feeders Keepers, Losers Weepers’)

6) Mike Dindoffer (Corpus: ‘I’m the man that Killed your Family’ & ‘Valentinius’)

7) Nicole Eickhoff: "Whisper"

Group Literary Presentation:

1) Evan Monez, Gwen Kirk, David Rodenbaugh: ‘Percussion Ensemble’

2) Emmett Synder and Doug O’Reagan: ‘Sci-Fi and Wrestling’

3) Vadim Elenev and Sarah Begeman: “How Painful, Darling, and how Foreign’ by Alexander Kochetkov

4) Kelly Webster and Shannon Gorman (Alice in Wonderland)

Member Serious Debate:

1) Dan Wiser: (corpus: Mao is Dead, PM, God Debate, MG, Smith Simpson Tryout and Debate)

2) Trevor Dobson (Smith Simpson Debate)

3) Charlie Mason (God Debate, PM)

4) Meg Olson (Immigration Debate, LO) and Wiretapping Debate, LO)

5) Steve Gottschling (God Debate, MO)

Provisional Debate:

1) Rohan Pai: Melting-pot assimilation vs. Salad Bowl assimilation, MO

2) Tim Gray: ‘Anarchist Senator Debate: Do It,’ MO

3) Dan Herrmann: ‘Do not allow illegal immigrants to attend public K-12 schools,’ MO

Member Non-Original Lit. Presentation:

1) Michelle Unterbrink: ‘Guts’, in Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk

2) Katie Bray (corpus: Beatles White Album & Faulkner, The Foxfield Weekend by Tucker Max)

3) Andrew Morgan (‘Tell-tale Heart’)

4) Mary Butcher (‘Laughing Wild’ by Christopher Durain)

5) Ben DeForest (‘On a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes’ by Thomas Gray)

Service to Society:

1) Caitlin Stapleton & Joy Arcangeli: Banquet Slide Show

2) Jen Swalec: Poetry Readings/Readathon

3) Katie Bray: Handcopying Constitution

4) Peter Trauernicht, Trevor D., Preston Gisch: Sound/Music Contributions for Parties

Member Humorous Debate:

1) Evan Stewart (Humorous Debate)

2) Mike Dindoffer (Humorous Debate)

3) Gene Lepley (Humorous Debate)

4) Meg Olson (Ice Debate, LO)

5) Trevor Dobson (Ice Debate, MO)

Alumni Literary Presentation:

1) Amy Hawkins: ‘Interview with Dan Savage’:

2) Nathan Royster: ‘I Hate Bohemians’ from The Hate Verses

3) Sara Driskell: ‘What to do if your Neighbor Used to be a Nazi’

April 13th

Literary Presentations:

Hallee Morgan: An original lit. written by Andrew Carroll, talking about how Jesus must have been a graduate student.

Alex Rixey (provisional): A eulogy describing (insert) and his attempt to construct language and his approach to memory

Caitlin Stapleton: A WASH zombie story set two years in the future. Charlie apparently gets naked.

Trevor Dobson: A sci-fi story where a homicide detective uses a reanimation technique to bring a murder back to life for his recollections of his murder, leading to painful consequences.

Evan Monez, Dave Rhodenbaugh and Gwen Kirk. An air percussionist piece called “The World is Round”.

Sarah Tweedt (provie): Selection from a short story by (?) discussing a child’s effort to buy wine for his parents with the aid of his neighbors

Debate:

I. Division of the House (Negative 2-1) Sentiment: 4-19-6

II. 7 pm Debate Resolved: NASA is worthless, stop funding it.

Government:

Dan Wiser

Jessica Lee Nute (Provisional Debate)

Opposition:

Charlie Mason

Keith White

Result: OP 1-6-1 (Sentiment); 2-4-2 (Quality)

April 6th, 2006 Meeting

Literary Presentations:

Original Literary Contest (Washington Society members only)

• Vadim Elenev: Shattering a Glass of Wine

A piece exploring memory and love, set around the historic train crash in Russia.

• Dan Herrmann: An Afterthought

• Gwen Kirk: Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers

An extended essay documenting the curious behaviors of a young women and her penchant for collecting interesting objects.

• Tara Ebrahimi: Turtle

The story of an older bother coercing his younger sibling into slamming a turtle with a hammer. One sees the action unfold both from the younger sibling’s point of view and the turtle.

• Lauren Palmer: The Down Beat

Debate:

Bush wire-tapping story. Resolved: Several days before a presidental election, you (a newspaper) gain knowledge of an controversial wiretapping policy by the White House.

Resolved: Print the story.

Government:

Katie Bray

Vadim Elenev

Opposition:

Margaret Olson

Lauren Palmer (provie)

Sentiment: 12-13-1 Quality: 8-18-4

March 30th, 2006 Meeting

Literary Presentations

Dave Rhodenbaugh: Scott Adams; the Dilbert Future. Documenting how future technology would impact the lives of the human race.

Rohan Pai: ‘My Life in Club Clemons’ An original lit that talks of how Clemons Library has impacted the life of Mister Pai.

Peter Traurnicht: “The rap about back to the future, the 1985 classic.

Featuring Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd.”

Emmett Snyder: Long rambling Sci-Fi story with a wrestling ending. Latter part accompanied by Doug O’Reagan.

Meg 0lson? : ?

Debate:

A day after swearing in, a US Senator from your state dies. Your state’s governor has the power to appoint a replacement for the remainder of the 6-year term, and wants you. But there’s a hitch: You’re an anarchist.

Resolved: Take the job.

Government:

PM: Michelle Unterbrink

MG: Marguerite De Voll (provisional)

Opposition:

Lo: Chen Song (provisional)

MO: Tim Gray (provisional)

Winner: Government

Sentiment: 20-11-3 Quality: 18-9-7

March 23rd, 2006 Meeting

Literary Presentations

Vadim: Patrick Henry Speech

Bud Lobb (provisional): A non-original literary presentation that humorously charted the progression of English literature from Chaucer to Yeats.

Chen Song (provie): Second Provisional Lit. About some dictator in Latin America killing people. Original Lit.

Trevor Dobson: “Flashman Adventures in Afghanistan!”

Rachel Mulheren: WH Auden Poems “Law like Love”

Dan Herrman: Reading a Donald Bartheleme short story “The School”; students coming to grips with death with the aid of their teacher and teacher’s assistant.

Jessica Nute: Read the story of a newly hired professor (a former worker at the Manhattan project) who manages to sleep on the couch for his first night at Columbia.

Debate:

An attack of unknown origin has completely destroyed the three braches of government except for you. You were the Secretary of Education, so now, by law, you head the Federal Government.

Resolved: Officially hand over your powers to the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Government:

Nicole Eickoff

Alex Rixey (provie)

Opposition:

Steve Gotlschling

Ethan Hamlin (provie)

Winner: Opposition

Sentiment: 0-26-1

Quality: 3-22-7

March 16th, 2006 Meeting

A lot of things happened at this meeting.

Short listing

i. Smith Simpson Try-Out Round
ii. Literary Presentations
iii. APDA-Demo Round

I. Smith Simpson Tryout Round

Resolved: (?) America Should Pull Out of Iraq. (?)

Trevor Dobson and Dan Wister

Anne Gilbert and Emmett Snyder

II. Literary Presentations

(Provisional) Tim Gray: Selections from the classified section of the London Times

Ben DeForest: Thomas Gray; Cat drowning in a fish bowl

Floor Lits

Peter Tauernicht: Article on Articulation

Hallee Morgan: Her sister’s short stories about New Year’s and Australia

III. APDA Demo Round

Names: Need to Get

March 9th, 2006 Meeting

Spring break. Alas, there was no meeting.

March 2, 2006 Meeting

Literary Presentations

Trevor Dobson: “Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural” Picking books based on aesthetic appeal rather than content.

Elizabeth Xia: “213 Things You Can’t do in the Army”

Ethan Hamlin (Provie): Original Lit. Don’t have title and tag-line.

Rachel Mulheren: “The Highest Branch on the Tree” Non-original lit. about a kid peeing from a tree.

(Provie) Steve Young: “Unbearable Lightness of Being”

Nathan Royster aka ‘Dick Randolph’: Dorothy Parker, I Hate Bohemiansi from The Hate Verses

Mike Dindoffer: Original Lit. “I am the Man Who Killed Your Family”

Debate

Resolution: You’ve found incontrovertible proof that God does not exist. Resolved: Show it to the world!

Government: Charlie Mason and Dan Wiser

Opposition: Nathan Royster and Steve Gottschling

Sentiment: 13-16-1

Quality: 9-18-13

February 23rd Meeting

Literary Presentations:

Chen Song: Time travel piece

Peter Trauernicht: Asimov piece, Science Fiction.

Katie Bray: Beatles “White Album” and then relating it to Faulkner. A compilation work.

Anne Gilbert: “Myth of the Male Orgasm.”

Amy Hawkins (alumna): Interview with Dan Savage.

Chris Ray: “I’ll tell you what I would do if I were gay” (I think this was a piece off the internet which was then customized to the WASH, but could be wrong)

Greg Ullom: “27 reasons why beer is better than a Woman” (Internet Piece)

Debate

Soup vs. Salad Assimilation. Resolved: Soup.

[Keith short and old take on the night]

This is one of the Society’s classic debates. In what seemed to be a great set-up, the debate fell into what really makes soup, and how different is it from salad?

Rohan got an award for being the only articulate debater of the night. It was a rough night—but truly hilarious.

Government:
Trevor Dobson and Steve Young (provie)

Opposition:
Allie Schneider and Rohan Pai (provie)

Winner: Opposition

Sentiment: 17-13-9

Quality: 8-19-13

February 16 Meeting

I. Mike Dindoffer and Allie Schneider accepted nominations for the position of Finals Orator. Mike Dindoffer won by unanimous acclaimation.

II. Mike Bartosch was absent, did not present three events of the week, and was fined $0.50 for dereliction of duty.

III. Literary Presentations:
Meg Weckstein: Leila Sayes of the University Chicago's "I haven't been this cool since the early nineties."
Kelly Webster and Shannon Gorman: The Duchess and Alice at the Queen's Croquet Game from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
Vadim Elenev and Sarah Begeman: "How painful, darling, and how foreign" by Alexander Kochetkov about a train crash translated from the Russian by Vadim himself.
Marguerite DeVoll: PROVISIONAL LIT! A piece explaining the various uses of the f-word from Monty Python.
Michelle Unterbrink: from Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted--quite possibly the most disturbing lit I've ever heard in my life.
Peter Trauernicht: Isaac Asimov's "Buy Jupiter" (from the floor)
Allie Schneider: from The Preppy Handbook (from the floor)

IV. Debate
You are a typical state government. Resolved: do not allow illegal immigrants to attend public K-12 schools. PM: Noah Peters MG: Bud Lobb (PROVISIONAL DEBATE!) LO: Meg Olson MO: Dan Herrmann (PROVISIONAL DEBATE!).

Sentiment: 13-25-2

Quality: 8-22-9

V. Adjourn to the College Inn

Signing of the Roll Meeting--Thursday, February 9

I. Announcemnents: Including, but not limited to: Banquet--email Lauren Maloche with the information that you're coming, and pay John Wass. Provies: MANDATORY Lit and Debate Workshop on February 14 at 6:30 pm--come for lots of info and fun!

II. Signing of the Roll--Unfortunately for anyone aspiring to the illustrious role of Secretary in the future, Gene raised the bar by actually having the minutes book available for the provisionals to sign. We had 11 people become provisional members of the Society tonight! Pictures to come on the flickr account shortly...

III. Three Events of the Week--in lieu of actual events, Mike gave us some of Robert Frost's poetry, including "Acquainted with the Night."

IV. Lits
-- Rachel Carr told us about interviewing with the Jeff, and suggested that anyone who comes to Jefferson Hall on a Thursday night will "never be the same," reading "Ode to Jefferson Hall" by Joseph Freeman.
-- Jacqueline Minneman, in the spirit of Valentine's Day, offered several short selections from author Nicholas Sparks before offering her own description of Jefferson Hall in his style.
-- Preston Gisch read Orson Scott Card, but not the science fiction for which he is famous. Instead we got an often enlightening, often humorous, and often disgusting discourse on toilet paper.
-- Lindsay Riegel read the first chapter of Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, an excerpt which located its narrative in the experiences of a missionary's wife with her four daughters in Africa.
-- Gwen Kirk read a thought-provoking children's tale of fulfillment when a small fish named Arlene gets to become what she always wanted to be a sardine (by definition, a small fish stuffed in a tin can with oil). Arlene the Sardine provided many lessons for us all.
Then a number of unscheduled lits were given from the floor.
-- Peter Trauernicht read a chapter on jokes about the death of JFK and a comedic birth from Lewis Blacks' Nothing Sacred.
-- Mike Dindoffer offered the "true" tale of St. Valentine (which had some really striking parallels to events that I may or may not remember...) and gave flowers to his girlfriend. Very cute.
-- Katie Bray, piggy-backing on Ally Gold's Absinthe Donuts story by Tucker Max from last year, told how she had gone to the Tucker Max book signing that afternoon and then read a brand-new story, The Foxfield Weekend (about UVA's very own sundress-wearing, booze-drinking outdoor cocktail party--add horses to taste) from his new book, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.

IV. Mao is Dead; You're the new Chairman of the CPC; Resolved: Maintain traditional Maoism. Dan Wiser (PM) and Vadim Elenev (MG) against Kelly Webster (LO) and David Rhodenbaugh (MO). This debate was particularly fun for two reasons: the debaters actually clashed and developed their points (as opposed to merely reiterating them) and they all had a really good sense of context (everyone was "Comrade" and the glorious party came first, etc., etc.). There was some confusion about the vote, but the opinion poll came out 9-16-1, and the quality of debate poll came out 12-12-5, with Ben breaking the tie in favor of the opposition this time.

V. Adjourn to the College Inn.

Humorous Meeting, February 2, 2006

I. A particularly rowdy bunch is called back to order in Jefferson Hall. Mr. Lepley, our esteemed secretary, recites the motto, "Quam fluctus diversi, Quam mare conjuncti," and reads minutes from the last meeting.

II. Announcements include but are not limited to: Ms. Olson with a book club meeting at her place on Friday (February 3) to discuss Harlan Ellison and with a Superbowl party (lots of free food) at Curley's (February 5). Go Steelers!. Ms. Maloche announcing the banquet, February 25--please pay $50 (vegetarian or chicken) or $55 (beef) to John Wass by February 16. Email her with your information. There was a sumptuous description of each entree. Mr. Mason and Ms. Bray welcoming provies-to-be.

III. Humorous debate. "Wait!" you exclaim, "I thought the debate was after the lits." Well you thought wrong, didn't you. Actually, Mr. White, our vice-president, switched it up for "fun" this week. You are God: Resolved: Give up on Earth and make a new planet. Arguing for Slartibartfast and the government of Magrathea were Mr. Michael Dindoffer and Mr. Andrew Morgan. Arguing for the continuance of life on earth, and supporting LBJ's infamous Daisy commercial were Mr. Gene Lepley and Mr. Evan Stewart. By a vote of 37-28-4 the Society decided that the government won.

IV. Lits.

Ms. Sara Driskell: “"Dealing with an Ex-Nazi Neighbor” Organize and politely kick them out. McSweenys.

Mr. Pablo Man: Superman having sex: will it kill you?

Mr. Chris Ray: “If I Were Gay" an Onion Article

Mr. Peter Trauernicht: “Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny” Pop-culture piece.

Mr. Charlie Mason: Dennis Leary: “Life Sucks, Get a Helmet.”

Floor Lits

Meg Olson: Poem, “Uriel” by Emerson about the God Uriel

Dave Rodenbaugh: Sex, Drugs, and Something.

Ben: “Heavy Sorority” (Chuck Norris jokes from Internet)

V. Adjourn to the College Inn

I. So Chapel meeting doesn't actually mean, "meeting that occurs in the University Chapel," because the Washington Society is too smart for you... or because another group for the past several semesters has reserved the Chapel every Thursday night. But we assembled in lovely Clark 108 and spent 10-15 minutes exposing the president's (Ben's, not George W.'s) scandalous past through thefacebook.com before we actually came to order, and Gene recited the motto, "Quam Fluctus Diversi, Quam Mare Conjuncti."

II. Although Ben has specifically requested a funny roll call response from members, mostly it was just "here." Get on that--I'm looking at you! And provies-to-be, don't worry, you'll be part of roll call after Signing of the Roll. Gene also read his minutes here. You may have noticed that they were typed and funny--this is not typical secretary behavior (usually they're scrawled on the back of homework), so don't expect it next semester.

III. Ben gave a mercifully short Presidental Address, for the second time this semester. He talked about where we've come from, and why we weren't actually in the Chapel. Funny, but the President's chapel address I remember best (which is the one I'm going to talk about for the rest of this section), was the one I heard my provie semester (actually in the Chapel, actually), when Chris Zirpoli told interested folks that we were a society of storytellers. I thought it was an excellent message; at any rate it convinced me to join (a mixed blessing for the Society, I know).

IV. Announcements: Charlie and Katie got up and welcomed the Provies-to-be and outlined requirements (go to the Provie home page for the details). Patrick Lee says the Banquet is February 25 in the Special Collections Library, and you can throw the money ($50 for vegetarian/chicken, $55 for beef) at basically any elected officer, who will then embezzle it and run to Rio. Or you could give it to Lauren Maloche, the Banquet chair, and actually go to dinner. Anna Katz made an APDA (American Parliamentary Debate Association--you get to go to other schools and crash on debate kids' floors, but the parties make it totally worth it) announcement. Go to meetings, Monday nights.

V. Three Events of the Week--When I joined the society, the illustrious Meghan Sullivan held this esteemed and heredity position. She was funny, often grouping her events around a particular theme. When she became less active, she passed the position onto Keith White, who founded WashPUB rather than actually presenting the three events. From there it temporarily went to Jim Kim, but now it's safe in the hands of Mike Bartosch, who actually has gone back to the themed approach (alcohol stories last week, basketball stories this week). Hip hip hooray! Hip hip hooray! Hip hip hooray!

VI. Literary Presentations
A. Mary Butcher--A passive-agressive, social awkward, whiny, needy woman wonders why the world doesn't roll over and die for her.
B. Caitlin Stapleton--In another installment of her wacky and wonderful adventure stories, Ms. Stapleton told how the Wash saved the world from the Olsen twins, with the help of Mr. Rogers and Angelina Jolie.
C. Nicole Eickhoff--A story--perhaps original?
D. Andrew Morgan--"The Tell-Tale Heart," Edgar Allen Poe--a nervous, very nervous, young man tells how he killed the old man with the evil eye.
E. Trevor Dobson--Trevor closed out the program with a selection from the Cato letters. Carefully edited as to not make us die from 'excitement', Trevor read a old but still surprising relevent passage on the ills of party politics.

VII. Break. The sign up sheet for Provies-to-be was circulated since apparently no one in the Society knows how to write and pass.

VIII. Debate: Yogi Surendranath and Anna Katz take on Emmett Snyder and Doug O'Reagan in "You are the United States. An unstable regime in a volatile region is about to conduct their first atomic test and you have the ability to prevent the test through air strikes. Resolved: Don't stop the test." Yogi and Anna think nuclear proliferation is good and will help stabilize the world and bring it to peace. Doug and Emmett pointed out that it's easy to have peace if everyone's dead. The society voted 5-20-14 to stop the tests, but, on the merits of the debaters, voted 16-16-2. Ben (the chair) broke the tie in favor of side government.

IX. It's only midnight! Let's go to the College Inn.

Topics Meeting-- January 19, 2006

I. And so it begins...

Washington Society Meetings, like all social gathers, have unofficial and official start times. The unofficial time starts with dinner, and lingers into the bodies that come walking into the hall from 7:45-8:10. This meeting followed that general template. People milled in the hall, sat on the stoop and, for those covert fellows, squeezing in through the side door.

Looking upwards, I was happy to see that the roof, as was reported earlier, was no longer suffering from a growing breach.


II. Meeting Opens

Ben openned the meeting; Gene knocked off the roll (without the roll book) and gave minutes of the following meeting.

a. Some of the Annoucments:
-Banquet is on Feb. 25th, costing $50/$55 dollars a peice
-Evan Monez's tall tale of how she got her arm-cast: high-speed police change; passenger pain; her amazing abilities of avoiding poles; the tradegy of malfunctioning automated doors.

III. Ben's Address

Ben gave an address to the Society (excerising his Constitutional duty to address the Society at any time). Note, this was not his inaugural address-- that was saved for the Chapel Meeting.

IV. Three Events

Mike Bartosch continued his role of the three events speaker (following in the steps of Meghan Sullivan, Keith White and Jim Kim, among others)

V. Literary Presentations Start Up

a. Tracey Grimm:
i. "College Finals from Hell"
This peice off the internet documented the horrors of finals by college major.
ii. "The Secret Life of a Squirrel" by Sam Howell
This peice documented, with an excellent dilivery, the hidden life of a member of the
memory-challenged squirrel family. Some lines:
"I am a stupid squirrel." (Envinced after becoming trapped in an empty trash can; failing to get food)
"I really need to get some nuts today." (Remember that he is, indeed, hungry and must
remember to eat.)
Fortunately the story was hilarious without it ending with the sorry fate of so many rodents: road-kill.

b. Chen Song

Chen read from the "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories" book. He showed the society a new take on "The Three Pigs." Some of the provocative lines Chen read with a smooth and rich voice were the following:

"A big bad wolf with expanionist ideas."
"Got to hell you carnivorous opressor."
"they sang songs of solidarity and wrote letters to the U.N."

The story ended happily, with the expanionist wolf getting his just desserts for all that heavy breathing and eating: sudden heart failure. But remember everyone, no real animals were hurt in this story. They were just merely "metaphorical constructs."

c. Jamie Trowbridge

Jamie read an one of his own works, "Choose your Own Language"

In it he provided the Society with an interesting introduction to Linguistic Theory. He discussed the role language plays in both framing and articulating thought. He utlized many oratorical techniques to keep the audience engaged and ready to hear more: from shout outs to Italians, smallpox, and Native Americans, linguistic terms and definitions, and a very unorthodox experiment using Gwen Kirk. I must say, Gwen responded with deadly force. Jamie, indeed, left the hall both enlightened and in stitches.

d. Vadim Elenev -- Bill Maher "New Rules"

Vadim ended the night by giving some recent words from Bill Maher. Some of the more protocative points were as followings:

i. "Massachusetes: Where the nation was born, but not your baby."
ii. New Rule: I'm not impressed by what college your kid is going to. George Bush went to Yale. The End. Besides, these days, kids only learn about two things in college: drugs and bisexuality. And you don't need to send them to college for that. You can send them to my house.

You can find them all at: http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/new_rules/

VI. Topics Debate: There is too much ice in the World

Government: Charlie Mason (PM) and Michelle Uterbrink (MG)
Opposition: Meg Olson (LO) and Trevor Dobson (MO)

Charlie openned the debate bemoaning his lot in life, arguing for a lost cause. This gambit paid off well: with Charlie disguising devasting points in the imprentrable guise of weakness. The lynch pin: Ice in alocholic drinks = less party.

Meg, though, was ready for any such mechination. She blasted the gov't points with her own: the growth of beach front property, the safety of Santa Claus from polar bears, and iced drinks.

Michelle delivered a cynical rejoiner, asking: who wants a Santa Clause that can't take on some polar bears? Furthermore, she reconstructed Charlie's case with devasting precision. And she closed: "You can't eat cake and have your ice too."

Trevor Dobson took Michelle on arguing: "What about icecream cake!" And then blasted through the points, arguing persuasively that beach front propery was in need.

Closings:
Meg gave a mathemtical demonstration point out that when circle expand area that their circumference expands too. This simple tactic took a harash floor speech to the ground.

Charlie came up, again arguing for the sancticy of parties and sanity to vote for his side.

The result: Opposition won.

VII. Closing and College Inn

Welcome

Dear any and all readers,

This blog is a very late attempt to accomplish a small goal: have an on-line hub for all the Washington Society meetings of Spring 2006.

Why? Because I was Vice President, and thought people might want look back one day.

This site builds on the work of Charlie Mason and Katie Bray (my two provie chairs), and a past web-site. The first five meetings are taken verbatim from the old site, with the remaining meets filled in from my records.