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This year each officer has six, SIX ah ah ah pictures each. See if you can find them all! (Hint: hit refresh)
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[ The Glorious Hypnotoad ]
Manager
Qualifications: Amanda gets around (yeah you do!) - she's served as pretty much every officer position we have, plus making up her own weird combinations of them. I suppose that makes her well acquainted witht he Ins'N'Outs of the band. Despite her diminuitive size, she's hard not to notice! Amanda's been an integral part of running the band for the past three years, and we look for to a great year under her diminuitive dominion! When not managering, Amanda's been known to play the piccolo and conduct.
Assistant Manager
Qualifications: Ryland is the king of making crazy faces. If looks could kill, this man would've been tried for genocide by now. However, Ryland's in stiff competition with Sarah for the weirdest officer picture faces this year! Rylands quiet nature is betrayed by his bizzare physiognomic expressions, showing that on the inside he truly loves to have fun! But don't worry, if you're not having fun, he'll stare at you until you are. Ryland also plays the sax and arranges every now and then.
Job description: The Assistant Manager, aside from assisting the Manager in any way necessary is in charge of planning social events and the famous trip to Davis for Picnic Day.
Treasurer
Qualifications: Tsukasa's back for yet another year of
Job description: The treasurer is in charge of managing the bank account. Duh.
Secretary
Qualifications: Sarah obsessively plans and writes out every aspect of her day. Her calendar will probably makes some archaelogist very happy in studying the various rituals and habits of a new millenium pepbander. With all her know-how of organizing her own life, she'll undoubtedly do an amazing job keeping track of the band and recording everything we do. Just beware, she's become quite the master of crazy looks under Ryland's tutelage! Rumour has it her mystical flute was sealed in a pedestal and forged by the Sages of Hyrule. Rumour also has it that she has a thing for the hypnotoad. Band drama ahoy!
Job description: The secretary takes minutes at officer meetings, takes attendance, writes letters when they need to be written, and supposedly sends out birthday cards on the birthdays of our members.
Webmaster
Qualifications: Caleb is quickly becoming an ancient relic of the band, and is working on his curmudgeon face to scare the damn kids off his lawn. Here is the tale of how he became webmaster:
Caleb: I am your webmaster!
Pepband: Well, I didn't vote for you.
Caleb: You don't vote for webmasters.
Pepband: Well, 'ow did you become webmaster then?
Caleb: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Caleb, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your webmaster!
Pepband: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Caleb: Be quiet! Pepband: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a
Caleb: Shut up! Pepband: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some moistened bint had lobbed a sackbut at me they'd put me away!
Caleb: Shut up! Will you shut up!
Pepband: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
Caleb: Shut up!
Pepband: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
Job description: The webslave is in charge of keeping the website up to date. They are also in charge of handling any problems with the mailing list, and being the laziest officer of them all.
Historian
Job description: The historian(s) is in charge of taking pictures to document pep band events. They are also in charge of creating the quarterly scrapbooks.
Music Librarian
Qualifications: For some reason, Jason just keeps coming back to this position. I suppose he reeeally likes making photocopies of music. Or maybe it was the cute intern at imprints... Or maybe he just loves organizing the closet. Or arranging music. Or something like that; the world may never know. (Unlike tootsie pops!) Jason is another of the marching band aficionados, as shown by his traitorous uniform. He's plays trumpet mostly, but can also be seen tooting on a sousa when the others have neglected to venture out of their nests.
Job description: The music librarian is in charge of making, updating and distributing our the music to pep band members.
Public Relations Manager
Qualifications: Roze is resurrecting the tradition of having a pepband officer who is part of the pepband just because it's so darn fun, not because of any musical related activities. That's right, she's our official Groupie, and who better to represent us to the public? She also apparently thinks pepband music is a good thing when finishing homework, as evidence by her typical rehearsal activites. When not hanging out with the pepband, Roze is saving remote villages form infestations of pygmy shrews using only molasses and plastic spork. She can also be seen representing various organizations across campus, in her quest to create a secret society at UCSD which will soon give the Skull & Bones society a run for their money.
Job description: The PR manager is responsible for organizing events and promotions outside of athletics. This includes mostly community events.
Peptide
Qualifications: Brian returns for another year of losing his voice yelling at games, running around like a madman and trying to show UCSD what spirit is all about. This man has a strong affection for the athletic competition which we strive to foster, and also loves tearing down the competition with our vast array of cheers and heckles. Brian used to play the sousa, but let his ego get better of them and join the dark side of the trumpets. He'll also be your best friend if you feed him root beer floats, but only with high quality root beer!
Job description: The peptide is responsible for being our liason with the other spirit groups on campus. That means he has to attend a meeting once a month. They are also responsible for leading the band in fulfilling its "pep" role at gigs. This puts them as the runner up for being the laziest officer in the band.
Head Conductor
Qualifications: Scott triumphed this year in taking the reins of the pepband, and has taken the futile challenge of attempting to direct us using only the waving of his hands. Scott was drum major once upon a time, and was the AssConductor last year. He's also on of our budding arrangers, and we'll forgive him for the Ricky Martin arrangement in lieu of the Streetlight Manifesto piece he provided. Quick of wit, watch for treasured phrases of his like "That was awesome, except for all the wrong notes.". Make sure to ignore him as much as possible during rehearsal to harvest more of these gems! When not conductoring, Scott plays the godliest instrument of them all, the trombone.
Job description: The head conductor keeps the other conductors in line, plans what music we need to rehearse and, obviously, conducting the band.
Director
Qualifications: Paul borrowed the pep band's trombone and never gave it back. OK, so Caleb actually has the trombone sitting in his garage right now. Where it's been for half a year. But we still blame Paul for its absence ;) Well, the real story is it finally made it back to the pepband, and was actually in use anymore. But I refuse to delete past history.
He also has a knack for singing opera, arranging scavenger hunts, banging things with sticks and doing fancy tricks with cymbals. He likes staring into space, thinking of the finer things of life, which is always followed shortly by a dirty joke about the not so fine things of life.
Paul's been our front man for athletics for a few years now, and has accordingly gotten us to the point where we can actually get something done. He actually managed to get in some pictures this year, but he should be thankful I carefully cropped most of them...
Job description: Chosen by the athletic department as our go-between, the director is the messenger. So if something goes wrong, shoot him first.
Hypnotoad
Qualifications: ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
Job description: The hypnotoad has become an integral part of the officer corps, unfortunately this year we seemed to have filled every position. In honor of his dedicated service, we made an officer position specially for him.
