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WELCOME TO THE ANNUAL STUDENT COUNCIL SIGNUPS

A large, colour sign seems to be tacked up right next to the school cafeteria, there is no way to miss something that blatant and obvious, especially with the addition of a blinking neon arrow pointing . It kind of looks like a little frightschooler went crazy with their crayons and created this giant, colourful monstrosity of a banner, complete with balloon frogs and rubber snakes streamers.

An over-eager third year, sporting quite a magnificent pin collection stares at you and smiles. She looks familiar -- wasn't she here last year, too?

"Hey there, would you like to try out for student council?" She attempts to shove her clipboard in front of you.

(( OOC: WHAT IS STUDENT COUNCIL

ALL ENROLLED STUDENTS are eligible for student council. Students can apply for any position available on the clipboard, but you can only apply and run for one. If you have two characters and both run for different positions, you may only win ONE position on Student Council.

Once again, the positions are:

• President You are the figurehead of the student council and are the person who makes announcements and talks on the ickycom regarding student council decisions. You cannot however make a decision on your own without the approval of at least two of your council members.
  
• Vice president If the president is busy, you are the person to go to to manage the remaining issues. You help the president as well on making the big decisions or planning ideas.
  
• Secretary You manage and organize events and do all the paperwork. You are more of a planner, not a thinker.
  
• Public Relations: The student who creates all the ads, the banners, the colourful posters and anything they can think of in regards to an event. You help organise and manage actual events student council has thought of.
  
• Treasurer You (ICLY) organise all the money and funds student council has as well as how much costs you are alloted to what event, granted to you from the school. You can also fundraise from students to help with council events.

- ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN HELP PLOT OR PLAN EVENTS, propose them and make them into reality!


So what happens after I sign my student up to run?

- Advertising Campaign: Once sign ups are closed, you will have a bit over a week to ICly create an open thread with their 'voting campaigns' , or do rps with their voting campaigns to attract more votes, whatever you like. Make buttons, make banners, be as creative or as fun as you would like for it! You can even do such things as ICly getting your 'friends' to stand up for you or to pass by buttons or the likes in an open rp. They can even pose outside the school yelling their lungs out, the options are limitless.

- Public Speaking: Near the end of the 'campaigning', the 'public speaking thread' will open up. Students will get exactly one post of 500 words or less to convince other students to vote for them.

- Voting: A few days after the public speaking, the actual 'voting process' will begin. All approved enrolled students are eligible for voting! Students wanting to vote must POST icly their character going into the ballet box and voting. All votes will be pmed to the MULE and tallied PRIVATELY. Students can vote for one of each, but it must be submitted in one 'voting sheet' as to not create confusion

- Results: Results will be announced and the new student council shown for the semester!

NOTE: The student council runs EVERY SEMESTER. That means come Febuary/March after exams, there will be a new election. Old student council members can still get renominated.



WHAT CAN STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS DO?

- It is like a glorified student club. Student council members have their own exclusive club which they can choose to create club rps for or not. There they can discuss events they want to run. THESE WILL BECOME STICKIED into orp events, such as an idea for 'spirit week' will be treated like how the 'monster ball' is being treated currently. Whatever open rp events they want to come up with is up to them!
- They can also propose smaller scale 'meta' events that might affect all rpers. This again is up to them how they want to deal with it, all proposals can be brought up with admin staff and approved before getting started. This could be anything from something like a "school mystery hunt" to a "student council auction week" (where you sell the a student for pumpkin seeds to 'buy for a day', sounds familiar??)
- Student council will also be able to hand out an exclusive 'student council' minipet themselves (each council member has this ability).
- Each student council member also gets their own shiny status badge. Ooooh! ))

This was it. The moment he had been waiting for.

Official Student Council Signups.

Sparrow had been eagerly awaiting the moment he would be able to sign up. Besides the fact that he highly enjoyed the interaction along with the idea of being able to handle the school's money (his inner nerd was quite interested in the mathematical aspect, though he was attempting to hide this), and learning to assist with school-wide events, the fact was that he was still relatively new and unknown within Amityville High.

The Student Council was, in fact, the perfect way to change that.

Smiling brightly at the ghoul, Sparrow reached out and took the clipboard from the third year, attempting not to be blinded by the obscenely neon colors of the stand.

"Thank you, my dear," he said cheerfully, and scrawled his name neatly onto the paper.

The hunchback shifted, feeling increasingly anxious about his decision. But... both of his Masters were running for Student Council, it only made sense for him to be there to help. Of course there was only one position he would possibly fit. Hand shaking, he scribbled his name onto the clipboard.

There was so much to do, and so little time. Other plans would have to be put on hold.

And hopefully special accommodations would be made for him when it was time for Speeches... An overhead projector at the very least.

Hell's Bells, he had some letters to write.

Shehk had barely enough time and effort to be home over the break, just to find out she'd missed some publicity for running for Student Council. Certainly she'd had a few lovely people helping her out in her absence, but she made one main point:

She wasn't going to let the fact she'd vanished out of the blue suddenly put a damper on her attempts.

However, she did pause to look at the name above where she was going to be putting her own, then the position they were running for. The pricolici bit her lip for a moment, before shrugging. Whoever won, won. She wasn't going to kill herself over not getting it. Besides, it was a platform for her to do something else altogether.

Because she'd learned to be a sneaky little bugger.



There.

It was done.

Barth was a little heavy for carrying, and very slow when it came to being dragged, but did manage to make it all the way over to the cafeteria to sign...most of his name.

The problem with signing his name to things was that one, it was very long, and two, shortening it to initials presented a number of problems. B.M. was...obvious. B.U.M. was worse.

The word President he carefully wrote out in full.

It was inexcusable, that Riley's current hobby, if one could call it that, was making her late to most of the errands and appointments she'd had going for her in the last few days. It didn't matter that she was covered in small white bandages, but it mattered that she was letting herself get behind on things she wanted to do. It had to stop, and soon.

Soon. As soon as she had mastered herself.

With newfound determination, she found her way to the cafeteria, stopped at the bright and audacious booth, and took the clipboard from the cheerful third-year, nodding quite swiftly.

More than you can imagine. Riley murmured back, her hand flourishing her name, and title, against the clipboard's surface. She handed it back to the ghoul, and gave her a grateful expression. Then she tapped her finger on the clipboard, where she'd written in elegant scrawl that was just a tiny bit bigger than Barth's, by comparison.



Remember that name, she emitted proudly. You'll be hearing it again soon.

It was strange being back at school when she had been away from it for so long, though a good strange. It was like being back at home after a long vacation. And it was even better with the fact that she was coming back more mature, physically and mentally and...she was a knob! Ohhh she was till so excited about that! She hadn't known of the board until a trip to the cafeteria to feed Her, having neglected Her lately in favor of actually doing enjoyable things. But when she saw the board she was reminded of what she had wanted to do this year. Her hair lifted with excitement as she searched around for a pen, giggling when she felt the snake pen wriggling up her sleeve. Noooo! Stop that! She needed you, Snake Pen!

It took a few minutes to coax the stubborn snake out but she did eventually manage it by scooting it further and further down her sleeve until she was able to grab it, letting it wrap comfortably around her hand while she quickly wrote her name down on a new board beside the full one. This was going to be so much fun!