“A Farce Led by a Posse of Clowns”: GSSC Dumps Niko Cunningham, Who Announces Self President-for-Life

by J.D. Porter | April 10, 2008 at 1:20 pm

A Farce Led by a Posse of ClownsWell, 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.

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