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\ufeffAfter a contentious motion was pushed through by a faction of the Booth House Council, tensions abounded this past Sunday, multiple sources reported. \u201cI had always expected it to be a tough vote, with this being such a hot-button issue,\u201d said Social Chair Michelle Jiang, \u201cbut I never expected the tensions to escalate to the levels that they did.\u201d <\/p>\n
Emotions are still very raw after the marathon debate session, which was punctuated with a three-hour filibuster against the motion by\ufeffHealth Czar Max Titsworth.. \u201cI\u2019m simply repulsed by the council\u2019s decision,\u201d said Titsworth of \ufeff the previous night\u2019s tense meeting. <\/p>\n
Barbs were traded between council members under the pretense of friendly jest for the duration of the tense meeting. Comments including \u201cNo wonder no one likes you,\u201d and \u201cDie,\u201c were followed by hollow laughter and forced smiles as the thin facade of civility restraining the council members from showing abject disdain for one another began to fade.<\/p>\n
Halfway through the meeting, the Vice President, Michael Modak-Truan, is reported to have stormed out in disgust after the fourteenth vote on the motion. Modak-Truan has since characterized his spirited departure as the result of \u201cA sudden urge to vomit.\u201d After making a particularly bitter remark , Modak-Truan is reported to haveremarked that, \u201cHe was only saying what everyone else was thinking.\u201d Residents of the building reported that shouts were often heard emanating into the hallway from the charged meeting, including thosefrom an especially candid screaming exchange between the Treasurer, Sean Reynolds, and Fundraising Chair, Hype Augustine. <\/p>\n
The meeting culminated in half of the council’s resignation in protest, leaving the house in disarray and with a potential constitutional crisis on its hands. House President Julian Martinez expressed surprise at the controversy the vote created, \u201cQuite frankly, I\u2019m shocked that a vote deciding what color our House t-shirts should be was this controversial. I mean, who doesn\u2019t love mustard yellow?\u201d At press me, council members were said to be organizing impeachment proceedings againstPresident Martinez on grounds of \u201chigh crimes and misdemeanors against humanity,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Timi Koyejo April 25, 2013 \ufeffAfter a contentious motion was pushed through by a faction of the Booth House Council, tensions abounded this past Sunday, multiple sources reported. \u201cI had always expected it to be a tough vote, with this being such a hot-button issue,\u201d said Social Chair Michelle Jiang, \u201cbut I never expected the tensions to escalate to the levels that they did.\u201d Emotions are still very raw after the marathon debate session, which was punctuated with a three-hour filibuster against the motion by\ufeffHealth Czar Max Titsworth.. \u201cI\u2019m simply repulsed by the council\u2019s decision,\u201d said Titsworth of \ufeff the previous night\u2019s tense meeting. Barbs were traded between council members under the pretense of friendly jest for the duration of the tense meeting. Comments including \u201cNo wonder no one likes you,\u201d and \u201cDie,\u201c were followed by hollow laughter and forced smiles as the thin facade of civility restraining the council members from showing abject disdain for one another began to fade. Halfway through the meeting, the Vice President, Michael Modak-Truan, is reported to have stormed out in disgust after the fourteenth vote on the motion. Modak-Truan has since characterized his spirited departure as the result of \u201cA sudden urge to vomit.\u201d After making a particularly bitter remark , Modak-Truan is reported to haveremarked that, \u201cHe was only saying what everyone else was thinking.\u201d Residents of the building reported that shouts were often heard emanating into the hallway from the charged meeting, including thosefrom an especially candid screaming exchange between the Treasurer, Sean Reynolds, and Fundraising Chair, Hype Augustine. The meeting culminated in half of the council’s resignation in protest, leaving the house in disarray and with a potential constitutional crisis on its hands. House President Julian Martinez expressed surprise at the controversy the vote created, \u201cQuite frankly, I\u2019m shocked that a vote deciding what color our House t-shirts should be was this controversial. I mean, who doesn\u2019t love mustard yellow?\u201d At press me, council members were said to be organizing impeachment proceedings againstPresident Martinez on grounds of \u201chigh crimes and misdemeanors against humanity,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3339,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/3339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}