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Vol. 2 Issue 4 February 2006 Monthly america We’re the fast food nation and we like it that way!! Page 5 It’s Good to Be The King WHAT’S GOING ON AT I’M NOT GEOSTROPHIC GEOFF! THE SMITH HAVEN MALL? Answers to questions on the never ending construction Page 3 THE BEST FILMS COMING YOUR WAY IN 2006 From Superman to My Super Ex-Girl- AGE 4 friend... Page 12 INSIDE: P This Issue USG Judicial Scandal By Justice Alexsandra Borodkin the president filled up the remaining seats- void and the document I had written re- --all without violating the USG Constitution placed them. I was appointed to the Undergradu- or the Judiciary bylaws of 2003. The court’s retaliation, however, was ate Student Government Supreme Court in That meeting was the beginning of the unprecedented. After receiving several very February of 2005 by former President Jared court’s descent into illegitimacy. The chief memorable e-mails, the remaining justices Wong. But my appointment had come in the justice due to the audacity of his charges, decided to risk the creation of a terrible prec- midst of a great power struggle between the disrespect for the senate, and flagrant tem- edent and the imminent downfall of the third president and the then presiding Chief Jus- per, at the end of the night ended up with branch of government. The chief justice al- tice Vlad Frantz. I remember sitting at the lowed his girlfriend, Justice Susana Katz to beginning of the senate meeting in which file a brief to their own court concerning the the chief justice was going to ask for the Judiciary bylaws with me as the defendant. Unhappy with both parties? impeachment of the president. I was holding One justice was filing a case against another, my notes in my hands, looking over them in front of a court that had already rendered There’s always the Libertarians. nervously. I was going to defend the presi- a negative opinion about its own governing Page 7 dent no matter what the consequences were. document. To make matters even more “help- I looked around and saw that the chief ful,” the supreme court placed an injunction justice was there already, and his girlfriend, on the new bylaws. So now the whole ju- Justice Susana Katz, was beside him. There dicial branch was left without a governing were no members of the Judicial Council in document: A dangerous free-for-all. the gallery, even though the former Chief For the case hearing, I chose the then Judge Artie Flynn, had helped me prepare Elections Board Chairman, Robert J. Ro- my counterarguments against the impeach- mano, to be my co-advocate. The Elections ment. Though it was not that apparent at the Board had many things to lose. The chair time, there was a significant rift between and the Elections Board members had spent the Judicial Council and the supreme court. a whole semester reorganizing the agency The Council was tired of the oppressive and and implementing reforms, including free- morally corrupt environment that members dom of speech, into the candidacy process. of the supreme court were forcing them to And now, with the new Elections Board by- work under. How deep the corruption ran, I laws, the agency needed to make sure that Right Wing Girls Are Hot... would discover soon enough. the candidates had the option of taking their Page 9 The reason for the impeachment fell grievances concerning the elections process more on the grounds of blackmail than it Justice Alexsandra Borodkin or results to the appropriate governmental did on “presidential neglect of duty,” as the body. That meant that the courts had to be WTF?! Picture chief justice claimed. At that time, before impeachment charges against him. And the working legitimately. Guy steals cell phone, takes photos my appointment, there were five members court remained at a standstill. After my ap- The case hearing lasted for over four sitting on the supreme court. But there might pointment, I tried to push in the few meet- hours, where I and my co-advocate defend- of himself, ending up on the net. as well have been two. The Associate Chief ings that we actually had (office hours were ed the document that had received practi- Page 14 Justice, Chris Macchio was in Amsterdam not required of the justices) to dismiss the cally unanimous support from the other for the whole semester, and Justice Christina injunction and move on with the court case, two branches of government. Justice Katz Rodriguez and Justice Matthew Mroz never or declare a mistrial. The court was willing complaint against the Judiciary bylaws in- XM Radio Vs. Sirius rendered any personal opinions on anything. cluded many strong, legal arguments, such Howard Stern or Opie and Antho- But technically speaking there were five “I rewrote the Judiciary as “justices holding office hours violate the ny? The case for XM radio. justices on the supreme court and the court principle affirmative action” and creating was functioning constitutionally. There was bylaws... and set up an supreme court accountability would “violate Page 7 no dispute on this fact, but there was a dis- accountability system. I the principle of double-jeopardy.” Justice pute involving the C.O.R.E. laws and the did not inform any of my Katz would later be offered by the current Canada becomes a “Red” State. case had been filed before the supreme court. president, Diana Acosta, the position of What about the liberal refugees? It was not a legal dispute, however, but a bit- colleagues on the supreme chief justice. ter, political one. We lost the case. The court had now Page 12 court.” That year the C.O.R.E. coalition had finally legalized its corrupt actions. It had al- gained significant seats in the senate and to do neither. I waited for over two months lowed four openly biased justices to sit on The Stony Brook Ice Hockey Team had begun to pass legislative reform involv- until I decided to do what I thought was nec- a trial, it had allowed a justice to file a brief ranked #1 in the Northeast. ing political and religious clubs as well as essary to save the Judiciary. With the support to her own court, and it had struck down its Page 13 organizations. At the beginning of the year, of members of the Judicial Council and the own governing document. The precedent set those involved in the opposition to C.O.R.E. president, I rewrote the Judiciary bylaws. I by the Katz v. Borodkin case was a disaster. filed a case with the supreme court against wrote a completely new document, I added My co-advocate, however, was a little less Ted Kennedy’s Drink of the the C.O.R.E. laws. The supreme court then office hours, created time limits for injunc- grim. In his opinion, we had won also. We Month: Angel’s Kiss decided to use that case as means of politi- tions and set up an accountability system. I had broken the court’s silence---it was the New! Drunk of the Month cal blackmail and placed an indefinite in- did not inform any of my colleagues on the first time in eight months that the court had junction on the C.O.R.E. case. Although the supreme court. After two senate meetings heard a case. Page 16 court could function constitutionally, it just and one executive council meeting, the old refused to hear any judicial business until Judiciary bylaws were declared null and Continued on page For the last 200 years, this country has stood for truth, justice, natural rights, individual liberty, freedom, and independence. Become a part of the tradition. Contribute to The Patriot. 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Proofreading Editor Contributing Photographer Byung Min Sa Megan Gaffey Mark Murphy Brett Denyer 2 The Patriot - February 2006 Smith Haven’s Big Plans The Pill Shown to Decrease Sexual Desire By Erica Smith The birth control pill may decrease sexual desire, even months after women stop taking it says a new study from Boston University Medi- cal Center. The leaders of the study were Claudia Panzer, MD and Irwin Goldstein, MD. Panzer is now in practice in Denver. Goldstein is Edi- tor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. The study appeared in the January issue of this journal. The study followed three groups of wom- an. 62 were using birth control pills of various kinds, 39 had used the pill for at least six months but stopped at the beginning of the study, and 23 had never used the pill. The average age for the groups was 32, 32 and 36, respectively. The researchers found that the group who continued using the birth control had increased amounts of a protein in their blood stream called “sex hormone binding globulin.” High levels of that protein can lower testosterone, which can cause decreased sexual desire in men and women alike.