When my friends were running for student government, we originally ran as the Students for an Orwellian Student Senate Slate (SOSSS, pronounced /s?sss/) to differentiate ourselves from the club we were in, Students for an Orwellian Society (because 2015 is 31 years too late). The next time we got non-club members to run, like Rob Roy, the preeminent figure of the Pirate Ship, a local party house. So we needed a new name.
We were running against a slate called L.E.A.D. (which was horribly bacronyized from Leadership, Empowerment, Activism and Determination), so Chad comes up with a great idea: We would be the Friends Urging Campus Kindness. The name was mostly inspired by our vendetta against the Elections Committee, which had decided that censorship of our previous platforms was a great idea so we would provide them something new to censor. Hey, it wasn't our fault that the EC Chair's boyfriend had stolen those books from the bookstore.
Most of the joke came from the fact that we wouldn't use the acronym to describe ourselves. We'd call ourselves "Urgers" or "Friends", like some sort of foul-mouthed Quakers. With a ten-page platform that was much more detailed than anyone else. That was my work. I never actually ran because I was in the process of becoming a grad student at the same school, but Rob totally won office. I became a technocrat instead. Three years later, I ended up being a highly-respected elder statesman, because institutional knowledge is always useful.
Anyway, 10 years later, someone has revived the name of the Friends Urging Campus Kindness, and is running for office right now. It's nice to know my work wasn't forgotten, two generations later.
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We were running against a slate called L.E.A.D. (which was horribly bacronyized from Leadership, Empowerment, Activism and Determination), so Chad comes up with a great idea: We would be the Friends Urging Campus Kindness. The name was mostly inspired by our vendetta against the Elections Committee, which had decided that censorship of our previous platforms was a great idea so we would provide them something new to censor. Hey, it wasn't our fault that the EC Chair's boyfriend had stolen those books from the bookstore.
Most of the joke came from the fact that we wouldn't use the acronym to describe ourselves. We'd call ourselves "Urgers" or "Friends", like some sort of foul-mouthed Quakers. With a ten-page platform that was much more detailed than anyone else. That was my work. I never actually ran because I was in the process of becoming a grad student at the same school, but Rob totally won office. I became a technocrat instead. Three years later, I ended up being a highly-respected elder statesman, because institutional knowledge is always useful.
Anyway, 10 years later, someone has revived the name of the Friends Urging Campus Kindness, and is running for office right now. It's nice to know my work wasn't forgotten, two generations later.
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