Also, I’m running out of trustworthiness. So if you need to rely on me for something you have about a month left to do it.

No word on how he died, but I’m assuming it was a band of flumphs led by a tarrasqolich. Oh, and apparently he made a last-minute edit to the “religion” field of his CS as he saw the end approaching. No comment.

So I’ve gone ahead and started circulating a petition around campus. It lists the ways in which the current VP Students & Equity has not been doing his job properly, and demands that he resign. If he doesn’t, it demands that the Board of Directors remove his powers.

This comes on the tail of months of trying to get him to perform the duties outlined in his job description, with no appreciable progress. It’s ridiculous that this guy is being given 14,000$ of student money to sit on his ass and not represent student needs.

The full text of the petition is below; you can also get this in PDF format, and if you feel inspired to spread the word, print out a few copies of the signature sheet and circulate the petition. Drop off the petition in the LGBTQ Lounge before 5 on Friday, March 7, so I can bring it to the board meeting. Note that this is for students of UTSC only — love and support from elsewhere is greatly appreciated, but reasons of legitimacy I need to limit the actual signers of the petition to current students.

Petition to Ahmad Jaballah, SCSU Vice-President, Students and Equity and to the SCSU Board of Directors

WHEREAS the VP S&E has neglected to co-operate with the Special Advisor to the
Principal on Equity Issues, Aysan Sev’er, and has failed to attend a single
meeting or event organized by Professor Sev’er,

WHEREAS the VP S&E has failed to establish a positive working relationship with the
LGBTQ Resources & Programs Office and other Equity Offices, violating
the terms of his job description, viz: “Maintain communication with the
Equity Officers of the University of Toronto.”

WHEREAS the VP S&E has failed to establish a positive working relationship with
and has attended no meetings or events of the Sustainability Office, the
Cultural Affairs Office, Student Housing & Residence Life or the Athletics
Centre, in many cases never even having met with representatives from
these offices and departments,

WHEREAS various other departments and organizations have so little faith in the VP
S&E that they have given up on trying to contact him for events and
campaigns,

WHEREAS the VP S&E has attended no meetings or events organized by the UTSC
Advisory Committee on Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities, UTSC
Cultural Affairs Committee, the Equity Matters at UTSC Committee or
the Positive Space Committee, violating the terms of his job description,
which mandates that he sit on these committees,

WHEREAS the VP S&E has made no efforts to promote positive space on campus,
violating the terms of his job description, viz: “Ensure the accessibility,
inclusivity and quality of all SCSU services and events. [...] Promote
equity, diversity and inclusivity goals of the organization”,

WHEREAS the VP S&E has repeatedly been resistant to meeting with the coordina-
tors of the LGBTQ Lounge,

WHEREAS the VP S&E has repeatedly failed to attend meetings of the Standing
Committee on Students and Equity, the UTSC Council on Student Ser-
vices, the UTSC Advisory Committee on Campus Safety and Security, the
SCSU Clubs Funding Subcommittee and the UTSC Advisory Committee
on Equity, thus violating the terms of his job description,

WHEREAS the VP S&E has repeatedly failed to comply with the recommendations
and directives of SCOSE, violating the terms of his job description, viz:
“Undertake other duties as assigned by [...] the Standing Committee of
Students & Equity and the Board of Directors.”

WHEREAS the VP S&E has already been censured by the SCSU Board of Directors
for not fulfilling the requirements of his position,

WHEREAS the VP S&E has violated the terms of said censure, specifically “The VP
Students and Equity [shall] write a formal letter of apology to the Board
of Directors and a major media publication before January 30th.” and has
thus violated article 8.01 of By-Law 1, “The Executive Committee shall
execute all resolutions of the Board [...]”

WHEREAS the VP S&E has, by his own admission, been unable to perform his duties
and has failed to arrange for his mandate to be fulfilled, and has thus vi-
olated article 9.05 of By-Law 1, “The Vice-Presidents of the Corporation
shall carry out their assigned duties as directed by the Board, the Execu-
tive Committee, the SCSU Operational Manual, and their respective job
descriptions”,

we the students of UTSC deem Ahmad Jaballah unsuited to the position of
Vice-President Students and Equity, and demand that he resign his position
immediately.

Should Ahmad Jaballah refuse to resign his position of Vice-President Students
& Equity upon presentation of this petition from the student body demanding
that he do so,

WHEREAS the VP S&E has shown no inclination to fulfill the mandate of his position,

WHEREAS the SCSU Board of Directors has set a deadline on the terms of his censure
and this deadline has passed without the terms having been met,

WHEREAS the VP S&E has shown no inclination to fulfill the requirements of his
censure,

WHEREAS the VP S&E has flouted the rules and procedures of the SCSU board of
directors,

WHEREAS the VP S&E has refused to take responsibility for his delinquency by
resigning his position,

we demand that the SCSU Board of Directors entertain a motion to proceed
with a tier 3 removal of powers of the VP S&E.

Signed,
The students of the University of
Toronto, Scarborough Campus

Until recently it seemed like a cool project that wasn’t really going anywhere, but the author has been writing a bunch of production notes on his blag, and the Evil Hat folks are on board too. This look like it’s going to not only be a real, live product but also be the sort of professional, good-looking product we have learned to expect from Evil Hat Productions.

Check this summary out:

She is the strongest human being alive, her muscles super-charged by her own scientific processes. She’s fought dinosaurs barehanded and lived to tell the tale. But she can’t join any professional society for engineers, or even hold the patents for her inventions in her own name.

He is a supernaturally good poet. He can smell truth and lies from across the street. He’s saved the life of one president, two prime ministers, and a future pope. But if he goes out for a gourmet meal with friends, managers will insist he go in through the servants’ entrance.

Two men share a mystical union, pooling their health, knowledge, and magical essence. They bind demons and champion the falsely accused in courts on three continents. But if they ever once acknowledge the love they share along with their power, they’ll be disbarred and shunned by decent people everywhere.

The band of five fought in two wars for liberty, first against invading armies and then against tyrants at home. They free serfs, fight the architects of murder, and have twice stopped mad schemes of genocide. But they’re communists, and can’t even get visas to visit other heroes and scholars in the US.

Brother and sister are heirs to a millennia-old family tradition of serving justice and knowledge. Their ancestors commanded armies, delved into ancient tombs to lay ghosts—and worse things—to rest, taught the founders of new schools of philosophy and military strategy. But in the New World, he’s barely tolerated as a ditch digger—and she’ll be deported if she teaches English to other immigrants.

These are the other heroes, the ones who must fight for their dignity and liberty just as fiercely as they take on the challenges all pulp heroes face.

New Horizons is a new supplement for Spirit of the Century. Each chapter addresses a marginalized group from the pulps, kept outside by their sex, their race, their lifestyle, or their beliefs. In New Horizons you’ll find information about real-life heroic individuals and teams, the challenges they face and some of the solutions they find to the problems of dealing with 1920s society. You’ll also find heroes and villains ready for use, plot hooks, and ties to the mysteries around the Century Club. The life of heroes outside the mainstream may seem as strange as the secret language of Atlantis, but can be as exciting and powerful in play as a zeppelin armada.

No use trying to fight it, you’re an eight-sided die, a d8. A fine example of simple elegance, the d8 is one of the least appreciated types of dice, and is often neglected. You are known to be quiet and shy, outward traits that conceal viscous sarcasm and mean wit. You are very smart, yet wise enough to hide your intelligence the quicker they found out how smart you are, the sooner they’ll put you to work, which is something you can do without. People call you dark and pessimistic, or moody and cynical. You find little point in arguing.

Take the quiz at dicepool.com

This survey is completely scientific. Despite the mind-boggling complexity of mankind, the billions of distinctly different personalities found on Earth can easily be divided into seven simple categories that correspond to the five Platonic solids, a pseudo polyhedron, and whatever the hell a d100 is. The results of this quiz should be considered not only meaningful but also infallible, and pertinent to your success as a fully realized individual. If you feel the results of this examination do not match your perceived personality, you should take whatever drastic measures are needed to cram your superego back into proper alignment, as described by the quiz results.

1. cracked pepper
2. with a little glam
3. lucy at the river
4. the word is good
5. kelly watch the hole
6. she’s slipping
7. love kite
8. it’s far too late
9. hawaii 64
10. struttin’ rita
11. good pressure
12. cracked pepper (reprise)
13. a sky blue rhapsody

And for your enjoyment:

Hi-res artwork: full – cover

And all of the tracks and artwork in a tarball.