So here's the dilly, yo, on the statue rally. Just about every semester people get worked up because there's statues of some confederates on the South Mall. Then last year they erected a statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the East Mall. You could say we caught statue fever. Being mostly nerds and/or geeks, we felt left out of the whole affair. Being a bunch of pro-active nerds and geeks, we felt like taking matters into our own hands. We had a little trouble deciding what statue we felt would best represent the nerds, so we narrowed it down to a few choices, and put the vote to the student body. We gave them the choice of Han Solo frozen in carbonite, a hand giving the "live long and prosper" salute, a joystick, an F7 key, an anime character, and an AD&D character (specifically, a gnomish half-mage, 15th level). We had a table set up on the West Mall with models of each of the proposed statues and had people vote on their favorites. Over the course of the day we battled over the microphone for which one people should vote for, and also to get people to sign our petition to get the statue erected on campus. I proposed that the statue be erected in front of the RLM (the physics/math/astronomy building), where it would be most appreciated. After one day worth's of work, Han Solo frozen in carbonite was the clear choice of the student body. We also received over 150 signatures on our petition. Not bad for one afternoon of badgering the student body.

-Chi Chi S. Preston, Esquire

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