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It’s all Albert O’Connor‘s fault, really. Last term, when I was President of MathSoc and Albert was Vice-President, Activities and Services, he ran a logo contest.

MathSoc with 30% more StebilaMathSoc with 30% more Stebila Things have gotten a little bit out of control since then. There are logos for MathSoc, MEF, and Godspell, the balloon, and the dictator survey. Read more to see the rest.

MEF with 80% more StebilaMEF with 80% more Stebila The MathSoc and Math Endowment Fund logos are the fault of one Yolanda Dorrington, troublemaker extraordinaire.

That caused Lino Demasi and Greg Hines to do this: the Guess the Dictator website. If you input this sequence of yes/no: nynnnynnnnnnnnnnnnynnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnny, then you’ll see that I’m a small-time dictator for MathSoc. (You can also go directly to this link.

Godspell with 80% more StebilaGodspell with 80% more Stebila Kirk Schmidt created this logo for Godspell. And true, as stage manager I am god, but to have a logo is a little too much, even for me.

Balloon with 37% more StebilaBalloon with 37% more Stebila Then there’s the balloon for Campus Day that Marshall Drew-Brook wrote on while I was standing unawares in the MathSoc. I later had to wear the balloon to a presentation about Combinatorics & Optimization and give tours to impressionable high school students.

I don’t understand. Why me?

Update 2003-04-03: I was just cleaning out old papers and came across an old issue of mathNEWS. Apparently I’m not just a small-time dictator, I’m a large-time dictator: MathSoc Vows To Proceed Unilaterally With Assault on Iraq.