Minutes of the DLS: January 9, 2003

Minutes for January 9^th, 2003

            I thought today was a good day to give you a guys an update on Bobby’s New Years Resolutions.  I know he told us some last week, but these are this private ones.

1)      Watch less porn and more cooking shows with Julia Child

2)      Keep up with school work and have a good semester.  Broken:  January 9^th, 3:30 pm

3)      Don’t dye hair same color as car….yet to be broken

4)      Stop having sexual thoughts about Mr. Miller’s robe.  Broken:  January 1^st, 12:04 am.

5)      Keep pants on during meetings (check under table….broken at that time)

 Well, we had 2 first time guests, and no returning guests.

 In committee reports, Ms. Winchell spoke for the Bicentennial committee, and, well, she’s scared.  They need more help folks, so do what you can.  There’s only 5 weeks, so we better get working.

 Ms. Ramsay spoke of PR expenses and we accepted her report

 Ms. Hines was fined, absolutely justifiably during her committee report.  PR is putting up bus placards and we’re painting the street tonight!

 Ms. Ballou told us in old news that the unholiest book of them all was taken.  It totally ruined my weekend.

 Then Ms. Parker spoke on the evils of internet censorship and how the internet should be unrestricted by the government, even in public places.  She presented:

 The risks associated with internet filtering outweigh the benefits of its wide spread use.

Res sub Rachel E. Parker.

 Mr. Addison said that filtering stops children from looking at things they shouldn’t look at.

 Ms. Ballou said she supported the resolution because people can’t get to what they want and that parents should take more of an interest in what their children are looking at.

 Mr. Purdym said that Ms. Parker’s speech had a lot of scary numbers.  He said there was no real harm presented.

 Mr. Moulds said that the government should be about to “adjust” our public opinions on computers they own.

 Mr. Grosse had heard no benefits of filtering.  Filters will not stop anyone who is motivated.

 Ms. Prabhakar said that free speech has nothing to do with the resolution.  The issue is that the poor are being limited by the government while us rich kids have full access.

 Mr. Gallagher said that while filtering may be bad, the federal government can’t just give access to bad things.  At this point, Mr. Patton brought a big mirror upstairs and we all laughed a little.

 Mr. Lewis said he doesn’t like the resolution.  He being the internet god, he said that no one can stop an adolescent boy from getting to porn.  He used a lot of technical jargon and I just have one question:  ENGLISH, DO YOU SPEAK IT?!

 Mr. Lerner said that you can’t just turn it off.  He said that free speech should be maintained regardless of income.

 Mr. Vick said there is no such thing as partial freedom.  We should choose what is right and wrong, not the govt.

 Mr. Miller said that filtering would encourage a lack of parental supervision.

 The Resolution passed 14-8

 Ms. Webb said she was disappointed by Leiberman’s war cries.  There is no longer a difference between the democrats and republicans.  The democrats are losing real liberals to more liberal parties.  She presented:

 The Democratic party should dissolve itself to make way for a real liberal party to take national prominence.  Res sub Mary Webb

 Mr. Lewis says that people drive politics.  The country is conservative and the problem is with America, not the democratic party itself.

 Mr. Patton said that the Democrats believe in nothing and supported the resolution

 Mr. Miller gave some Libertarian propaganda rant and said that democrats are stupid and so are the republicans

 Mr. Purdym says that this society has gone soft and probably would have continued with “Back in my day,” but at his age, who can remember?  Democrats believe in nothing, he said.

 Mr. Grosse said that the Dems have no beliefs

 Mr. Stone says that Dems have a platform, one example being Universal Healthcare

 Mr. Smith said that the parties just don’t go far enough.

 Fails 6-11

 Ms. Webb rose again to talk about vegetarians and how it just doesn’t work to be a vegetarian and also be pro-choice.  She presented:

 It is morally inconsistent to be both vegetarian and pro-choice.  Res Sub Mary Webb

 Mr. Miller rose in favor of the resolution.

 Mr. Cull said that it’s all a matter of eating.  Vegetarians are against the eating of animals after will kill them.  We all snickered at the idea of eating children, until we realized they were children

 Mr. Lerner said that evolution was the reason to eat meat.  He then showed his lovely incisors.  A steak apparently has no human characteristics.

 Ms. Parker agreed with Mr. Lerner and said that you just can’t be both. 

 People kept bringing weird crap up here. 

 Mr. Wesley tortured us and left the resolution tide 8-8.  I was thinking that didn’t look good, especially with the ANM coming up.

 Maybe Ramon was unaware of the fact that I hate Styx, but as if to torture me, he and Red presented something about Voltaire becoming Mr. Roboto or vice versa.  It was whack.

 Red said that men destroy things.  I’m sure that bust could destroy things, too.

 Mr. Lewis told all of us to keep our grimy, cookie covered hands off Voltaire or he’d send us to our rooms without dinner.

 Thankfully, due to the fact that STYX SUX, the resolution failed 7-13.

 We heard Mr. Addison’s critics report and rushed off Little Italy, thinking about porn, democrats, vegetarians, and Mary’s bust...er….Voltaire.