acka-voting Digest Saturday, December 19 1998 Volume 03 : Issue 233 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Acka: Proposal 3928 From: jtraub@dragoncat.net Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 01:07:14 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3928 Paper that says you're smart Studge Due: Sat Dec 26 01:07:13 1998 Create Rule 861 titled "Ackanomic University" with the following ACKA_U delimited text. ACKA_U Ackanomic University is a lavish building and a common location near the library. Players must be at the University to become a student or submit a Thesis. ACKA_U Create Rule 445 titled "Dean" with the following EDUCATIONDESPOT delimited text. EDUCATIONDESPOT The Office of Dean is an political office with one seat. The duties of the Dean are: 1. To be the hearing harfer for all Educational Hearings. 2. To make Theses publicly available. 3. To shamelessly promote the usefulness of higher education. If no player nominates themselves for Dean in an election, then the Hearing Harfer shall be given the office. The Dean recieves the SHF as a salary. EDUCATIONDESPOT {{Studge is made Dean in an acting capacity.}} Create Rule 390 titled "A Degree Proves You're Educated" with the following LEARNINGPROCESS delimited text. LEARNINGPROCESS Section 1 The Student A player may gain the title student by paying the SHF and announcing a major as a public action. Acceptable majors are those fields listed in Section 5 of this rule or "Visionary". No player may become a student in a major that e holds a PhD in. Before submitting eir thesis it is considered good form for a student to conduct surveys, make experimental proposals, and generally pretend to be involved in a study. Section 2 The Thesis There is a general class of untradeable entity called the Thesis. All Theses are of some type and must have more than 500 words. Players who are and have been students for a month may create a thesis by paying the SHF and posting it publicly such an action causes em to stop being a student. A thesis' type is the same as the student's major. The Thesis should: 1. Demonstrate the erudition of the student in the student's major. 2. Contain at least three footnotes referencing Rules, Proposals, CFJs, old messages, or other Theses. 3. Be consistent with every Thesis that has already been accepted or contain a lengthy explanation of how and why a Thesis is wrong where the new contradicts the old. Section 3 Grading The Thesis When a Thesis is created, the Dean must call an Educational Hearing on its acceptability. Valid responses are "Burn the Heretic!" and "Students who THINK? What will they come up with next..." for the Thesis to be accepted, more than 1/2 of the valid responses should be "Students who THINK? What will they come up with next...". If the Thesis is not accepted it is destroyed. If it is accepted, then the player who created it gets a degree in the whatever major the Thesis was for. Each time a player gets a degree in some major they get the lowest degree they do not already have in that major among BA, MA and PhD (where the degrees are listed lowest to highest). Section 4 How Majors Work If a Thesis is Visionary it should propose a new major and fill the above Section 2 requirements for that new major instead of an actual major called "Visionary". If the Thesis is Visionary then more than 2/3 (not 1/2) of the valid responses must be "Students who THINK? What will they come up with next..." for it to be accepted. If a Visionary Thesis is accepted then its type changes to the major it proposed, this major is added to Section 5, and the player who created the Visionary Thesis gets a degree in the new major, not a major called "Visionary". Section five of this rule serves only to indicate what majors are available at the Ackanomic University and is therefore a list of major names and Thesis types incapable of actually authorizing wholly new systems in Ackanomic. {{[This paragraph is just outside-chance scam prevention]}} Section 5 Majors Custom Harfology History Inter Nomic Relations Jurisprudence Legislation Scamology Treasure Hunting LEARNINGPROCESS ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V3 #233 *********************************