“A Farce Led by a Posse of Clowns”: GSSC Dumps Niko Cunningham, Who Announces Self President-for-Life
Well, Columbia's General Studies Student Council may be filled with inept constitution breakers bickering about minutiae in the least popular corner of the university, but at least their meetings are dramatic. Take the recent potentially unconstitutional reattempt to impeach President Niko Cunningham, for instance.
The machinations began when Council members at the latest meeting waited for the pro-Cunningham people to leave, because evidently most of the people on his side leave meetings early. Then Junior Class President Karly Curcio introduced a motion to impeach him, and voting began. On BWOG, Cunningham describes his cunning political reaction: "I immediately got up and walked out."
To the untrained observer, that might seem like exactly the kind of petty, stupid move that has made Cunningham-impeachment proceedings such a hot GSSC fad. But Cunningham was trying to break quorum, since they needed everyone present to maintain it. So, assuming it's even possible to break quorum after a vote has started, it was actually a petty, devious move.
Despite losing 12-3, meaning that even more people dislike him than at last week's impeachment hearing, Cunningham has decided not to recognize the vote, and still considers himself president. Meanwhile, Vice President of Policy Nancy Saunders argues that the vote was legitimate, but she becomes President if he leaves. It's difficult to find an objective opinion, which is one of the major problems with GS infighting: No one else at Columbia cares about GS, so disinterested parties are pretty much always uninterested parties.
Meanwhile, the entire GSSC elections committee resigned the day before the impeachment hearings because of a fight with the Judicial Committee, so the GSSC has decided to dissolve the judicial committee, which should bring back the elections committee. Or something.
Perhaps our old friend Chikodi Chima, who missed the impeachment vote, summed it up best when he said, "This impeachment was a farce lead by a posse of clowns."
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April 10th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
It’s is a bit confusing but if I am reading this right the next logical move is for Palpatine to dissolve to Imperial Senate permanently and restore peace and order to GS.
April 10th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Good luck to whoever wins the election for next year’s GS President….
April 10th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
apparently GS-ers are just as geeky as weird as the rest of the league.
I don’t know much about GS politics, but that Niko guy is da shiz. President-for-Life. lol
April 10th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Cunningham might not have been the perfect GS prez, but he is at least competent. Thats more than I can say of GS presidents in the past. Look, the student council isn’t there to run the damn school. This isn’t a full time job. I’ll be the first to admit that Niko didn’t pull his full weight, but neither did a lot of the other members of the council. So he “rendered GSSC irrelevant.” Student councils are barely relevant to begin with. To go through the process of an IMPEACHMENT of a member of a STUDENT COUNCIL? Unless he did something downright illegal or clearly immoral it seems like a waste of energy to me. Vote him out of office at the next election. Or better yet, council members, pick up the slack and do the damn work yourselves. So Niko won’t meet with Awn? Whats to stop the VP from doing so? Document his failures and move on. For crying out loud.
April 10th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
There’s more going on behind the scenes. Cunningham may well have done something downright illegal. The spectator might break it soon.
April 10th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
The guy is pretty sharp (I should add the obligatory GS dumping here not that I believe it.) He picked up on the rules and the situation on the spot to foil what looks like a bunch of petty petty busybodies. He also took advantage of the lack of an elections committee. Good for him. And all the while he is affably dismissive. Future shifty political type who would use his head to game the system as soon as actually work? Maybe. But it just proves that GS is producing just the sort that we see sprinkled throughout the Ivies. I’m sure he will be successful. But what’s with the GS hate? I’m not familiar with it but is it like a way for legacies to look down? Do they make snarky comments about Barnard students too? Oh Columbia…
April 10th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
For every time a baby cries in a crowded lecture hall, and I feel our US News ranking slide another peg below Duke; for every time I smell an old person fart in class, amd I realize why we’ll never have the hoties; for every tedious story that sucks the oxygen out of class… for every leering, twitchy weirdo trying to talk to me… I understand why Columbia will never be HYP, the answer: GS
April 10th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
” Posse of clowns “, should refer to the slime you refer to as skull and bones, and masons and illuminatti. Y’all must be fucking kidding. You slimey satan worshipping yanks in the ivy leagues aren’t much judges of character, look who you repeatedly elect, fucking brain dead morons who reserve the right to mass murder, torture, mass theft , and lie about it all. You yanks are the anti thesis of love just like the rothschilds created you to be, america the anti Christ, the mass murderers of the planet. I imagine you thought it was cool the way the rockefellers and fords and prescott bush supported the rothschilds son in WWII, you yanks won the world by supporting the rothschilds son adolf hitler and his unprovoked mass murder( profits for bankers provocation instead ). In 1776 the rothschilds formed america and the house of rothschild in the same year, how quaint, satan and satan inc. Fuck are you yanks in the ivy leagues pathetic. Actually the whole country is the same : evil and loving it. Apophis, Apophis, Apophis. Au revoir lemmings.
April 11th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Is the guy who wrote a quasi-anonymous fairytale-innuendo blog about his giant penis really accusing other people of being clowns?
PS. Rules don’t really seem to matter to these guys, but after a motion is made and seconded quorum has been established.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
GSSC is irrelevant, bunch of self serving “look at me” types. If they’re not busy organizing useless events theyre trying to impeach somebody. I say go get a farkin life already. As for the self absorbed broad who claims GSers stalk here, she’s smoking big crack. Most columbia broads aren’t worth fucking. Not even with Mr chima’s big schlong. Fucking columbia girls while living in NY is similar to eating mickey d’s while living in paris. get over yourself honey he might’ve just been twitching becuase you’re buttugly. GSSC sucks, just as all student councils suck. in regards to a spectator scoop about supposed illegal activities by Niko, probably will be about him having a threesome with the chaste(her words not mine) Ashley “I suck dicks while my boyfriends out of town” Foreman and the big bad wolf, but dont quote me.