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OPEN MIC STUDENT COUNCIL QUORUM

((OOC: let the games begin. GO! (edit: Bingo Cards are done! Yay! Now go play.)) (second edit: This will be open for discussion until 10pm US CST, Friday, 10/7. If you want to chime in, do it before then. After that time, comments will be locked.)

"Hello and welcome to the Open Mic Student Council Quorum. This is going to be a cross between a Crossfire event, a debate, and a party. We want you to get to know your Student Council candidates - all of them - better. A lot better. To that purpose, we've invited all of them here tonight. However, as this was not a mandatory event, we don't have a roster yet of who will show up. Feel free to write your questions in, we'll make sure they all get them whether they show tonight or not.

Here's how tonight is going to work:

1) Each Student Council Candidate will be asked 5 questions from the quorum directors (that's us), and they will have 1 minute to answer the question to the best of their ability. We'll be keeping score and awarding points for how accurately each question is answered, as well as style and delivery. At the end of the night, the representative with the most points will win a prize.

2) When the 5 questions have been answered, the floor will be opened to the audience for the Crossfire section - to ask the Candidates anything they want. HOWEVER, the questions must be on topic. Questions phrased with vulgar or offensive language, or questions about personal lifestyle choices or habits will be striken - and the asker will be asked to leave. So phrase your questions carefully. We're here to learn things and have fun.

3) The Candidates may ask each other questions in the Crossfire section. Feel free to go head to head over your issues. Well, verbally, anyway.

4) I mentioned fun, and to that effect, we have Buzzword Bingo going. Each of you was handed a set of Buzzword Bingo Cards and a pencil as you entered. Here's how it works: Each card has the name of a Candidate on it, and many, many buzzwords pulled directly from the debate last night. When you note any Candidate using a buzzword in any of their answers, tick it off on their Bingo Card. The first player to declare a Bingo wins a doorprize. The first player to get Bingos on more than five cards gets the grand prize.

The Prizes:
Single Card Bingo: First 12 people will each win 1lb boxes of chocolates from Wonka's Sweet Shop
Two Card Bingo: First person to get one wins a $15 gift certificate to Deb's Diner and Retro Store
Three Card Bingo: First person to get one wins a $30 gift certificate to Deb's Diner and Retro Store
Four Card Bingo: First person to get one wins a $50 gift certificate to The Emporium
Grand Prize: a $100 gift certificate to Red's Tattoos

((OOC NOTE: For the sake of our sanity, here's how it's going to run.

The "(Candidate name) Questions" threads will be locked to only the Candidates - please, no ooc comments or non-Candidate posting in them.

The "(Candidate name) Crossfire" section will be open to any IC comments. Please direct your questions to the Candidates in their threads.

Please keep all OOC comments in the "OOC" thread" - we ask because we'll be cutting and pasting from the other threads as the night goes on.

This post will remain the same - a secondary post will be linked for people who want to catch up without scanning a billion comments.

If you have questions for the moderator - and for right now, that's me - there will be a seperate post in my non-comm journal and you can ask them there. I am turning email notification for this thread off.))

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Angela shrugs. "Whatever you say," she says. "But I think that if you polled the student body, at least 90 percent would read it the same way Anakin and I did."

Maia looks at Angela with no emotion on her face. "Then I am very sorry that they do not understand the presentation of a candidate who is independent of the two major 'political' parties of this school."

"Okay, but ..." Angela pauses, unable to believe she is getting this involved in a discussion about student politics. "I know Phoebe. She's smart, she's loving, she's dedicated, she's compassionate. And if you said that about her, you might get some votes. Saying she's not part of the JA or Parker-related -- which is basically all your email said to distinguish her, since Draco and Six are students and individuals too -- is implying that anyone who is part of those parties is bad in some way."

Angela looks at the other girl. "I can't believe you don't understand that as a campaign manager."

Maia stares at Angela in total confusion of how a simple slogan was misrepresented. Maia shakes her head. "Phoebe approved the slogan. She saw it the same way I did. If people assume that just because Phoebe is not associated with a group they are bad, then maybe the fault lies with the clubs themselves and not with a stupid slogan Phoebe and I thought up when we were half drunk and exhausted."

Maia rubs her head and looks at Angela. "I'm sorry Angela, this is stupid to get upset over. Its a dumb campaign slogan that was obviously not taken well in the test email and so will not be presented again. I have had a very long day, Sara almost knocked herself in to coma and I am thinking I have a very long night ahead of her because I have to make sure that she does not slip into a coma from the concussion. So please, don't be angry or upset with me over something Phoebe and I came up with when we were drunk."

Angela shrugs, letting it drop. "Sorry you had a rough day," she says,. "And I hope Ms. Sidle is all right. I didn't mean to yell at you, I was just trying to figure out what point you were trying to make."

Maia sighs and stares at the candidates again and then looks at Angela. "Thank you I am sure she'll be fine. And to be honest the point we were trying to make" Maia pauses and then sighs again "I don't care anymore about the point we were trying to make. I want this damn thing over with I am sick of it."

Maia stares again then looks back at Angela. "Did you get a dress yet for homecoming?"

Angela gives a weird laugh. "You're the third person I've talked to today to say she's sick of the elections. I wasn't even paying attention until a few days ago, and I think I'm sick of it too."

"And yeah, I got a vintage dress at Deb's. Have you found anything? Are you going with Sara?"

Maia smiles for the first time since she sat down at the debates and blushes slightly. "Well she is one of the chaperons so can't really be my date but we are going to take our picture together and arrive together I think. She was kinda out of it today with the whole concussion" Maia laughs for a second and shakes her head. "Poor baby I rounded the corner and there she was flat out on the floor." Maia chuckles again. "Oh my dress is red Gucci. Floor length. I just couldn't do an 80's theme like some of the other girls."

"Sounds like an awesome dress," Angela says. She is doing an 80's theme, but she knows it isn;t for everyone. "Do you know what knocked Sara out?"

Maia supressed another giggle then cant help it and starts to laugh a little. "She was running through the hallway" Laughs "And she hit some water and went flying" Maia shakes her head, "I shouldn't laugh but" Laughs again "I mean now I know she will most likely be ok I can. Its just I mean, I came to find her to give her a message and out of the blue she is laying on the ground in front of me."

"Sounds awful," Angela murmurs, turning her attention back to the debates.

Maia stiffles her laugh worried she has offended Angela. "She is ok though. Honestly I would not be laughing if she wasn't. I-I" Maia instantly looks serious almost close to tears now "I think if something were to happen to her, I would want it to happen to me to just so I wouldn't have to face anything without her." Maia frowns now very sorry that she had a lighthearted moment.

Anakin furrowed his brow. "I'm a member of the Junior Achievers, and as far as I remember, there was never anything put out that would say that the beings from JA were running as a group. They are in JA because they are ambitious. They are running for office because they are ambitious. I don't see the two being connected in any other way."

He looked at Angela. "And if you were trying to run a candidate as merely being separate from the parties, why didn't you include Batsh*t Insane? Or refer to Parker's group by their formal name of the Hottest Ticket in Town?"

Maia sighs audibly and turns away from the boy who seemed to be pushing her into an argument she did not have the time for.

Anakin watched Maia turn away and wondered why she wouldn't respond to his perfectly reasonable questions.

He shrugged and turned his attention back to Angela.

"Well yeah, that's true too," Angela says. "Maybe it's supposed to be obvious Phoebe isn't Batshit Insane, or something." She's relaxing. She hasn't gotten to talk to Anakin much, but she doesn't get the creepy vibe from him she gets from some of the other JA members.

"Oh, and you have to tell me about where you're from sometime. I don't even know what a Padawan is."

Anakin smiled at Angela. "Padawan's our version of student." He pulled at his braid. "It explains the stupid haircut."

Angela appraises the braid. "Oh. I thought you were, like, a refugee from a New Wave band, or something. I mean, not that it looks awful or anything, just kind of ... " Angela isn't sure how to finish that sentence, so she settles on smiling and hoping it's clear she didn't mean to insult him.

"What were you studying? Beka told me you like to fly."

"Well, at home I'm not the only one with the haircut, but I'm not sure it improves matters when there's 200 beings with the same silly ponytail-braid combination."

He turned his full attention to her. "I'm studying to be a Jedi. They're very pretigious warrior-diplomats in my galaxy." He looked at her, wondered where she stood on the whole magic issue, and decided to tell her anyway. "With, um, special powers. Telekinetics, mostly."

Angela tries to picture 200 people with Anakin's haircut, a whole school full of them.

Yep, they'd all look like missing members of Kajagoogoo.

But then, her sense of style might look pretty silly to someone from another galaxy too, and she doesn't even have the excuse of prestige.

"Telekinetic," she says. "So you can move things with your mind? I think Paige Matthews can do that, but she's just from Earth."

He nodded. "Yeah, like that. I can pick up on emotions, too, but I can't read minds or anything."

[OOC: Bwahah. Stupid Jedi hair.]

Angela blinks. Her experiences with psychics at the school have been a little unsettling, but it sounds like what Anakin can do is a different and hopefully less freaky.

"I'm not going to ask you to read me," she says, putting a little hint of laughter in her voice. "But if you wanted to, like, telekinet some drinks from the bar for us, I so would not hate you."

Anakin grinned. "Anything you'd like in particular?" He looked over at the bar. "Or whatever looks closest?"

Angela cranes her head to look at the bar. "Um, a bottle of Heinekin would be fine," she says. "I don't wanna make you try and mix a drink with your mind."

Anakin closed his eyes and concentrated. Two bottles of beer came floating across the room and into his hands. "My old teacher would kill me to see me using my powers this lightly," he said with a laugh. "But it was a long walk."

He thought about what she had said. "I don't know if I'm good enough to mix drinks from this far away, either. Might have to work on it--it'd be a heck of a party trick."

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