Meet the occifers:
This section is designed to provide you with a little more info on our fine
corps of "occifers". The pep band occifers are elected in the democratic
process during the final rehearsals of the previous year. The term is set to
one year, but all of the "major" occifers must be current students at UCSD.
These include positions such as Manager, Assistant Manager, and Treasurer. We
don't trust our measly budget to just anyone, folks!
This year each officer has six, SIX ah-ah-ah pictures each. See if you can find them all! (Hint: hit refresh)
Qualifications: Scott is moving up (down?) from conducting the band to running the band. He plays the One True Instrument(tm) which makes him more than qualified to do whatever he wants regarding the band. Scott has also been known to be one of the small group of pepsters crazy enough to march in a drum corps (the blue devils). During his offtime, Scott can often be seen trying to convince people Music is also a real major and perfecting the art of sassy remarks.
Job description: The Manager is the leader of the band. They are in charge of organizing events and dealing with anyone who needs to be dealt with. The Manager tends to get their greedy little hands into a bit of everything. Roze Eveleth
Qualifications: Roze is one of our pepband groupies, though she has seen the light and is learning how to play The One True Instrument(tm). She previously served as our Public Relations Manager. After spending some time in Costa Rica (where she was saving remote villages from infestations of pygmy shrews using only molasses and a plastic spork) she got a bit of a wild side and decided to help manage the wild and crazy aspects of the band. Unfortunately for her this means that rehearsal time is no longer a prime time to do homework!
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. Zack Taich
Qualifications: Zack is one of the freshman recruits into the officer corps. He enjoyed stealing our tuba so much last year that now he wants tosteal embezzle manage
the money for the band. He's also continuing a fine tradition of having jews manage the finances of the band.
We don't know much else about Zack, as he's a mysterious figure often shrouded by the gigantic
imposing bell of a sousaphone.
Job description: The treasurer is in charge of managing the bank account. Duh. Sarah Steinman
Qualifications: Sarah returns for another year to put her obsessive calendaring and note-taking skills to use helping out the pepband. I suppose she enjoyed taking meeting minutes and making birthday cards so much she just couldn't stand to miss out doing them again this year. In fact, Sarah has become so co-dependent on the band she becomes physically ill when she doesn't get her daily dose of pep. Now that, my friends, is true dedication. Go Sarah!
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. Caleb Crawford
Qualifications: Caleb officially holds the title of holding one officer position for the most consecutive years. He also holds the dubious distinction of being Staff, Student and Alumni all at once. In addition to playing The One True Instrument(tm) (that makes three officers!) he also is channeling his inner redneck and learning to play the banjo. When hes not slaving away hacking code on the website, he's typically defending the band from marauding ninjas and pirates. And if you were in doubt of his l33t sk1llz, try this on for size:
#!/usr/bin/perl
while(1){''=~('(?{'.('./).]{'^'^]@@)[').'"'.('~/]@{=?,@^{]//{~@^@?[]@/}'^'(@)%[~^@%<[;@][)%<-^()%]_').',$/})');}
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. Drew Mandinach & Lisa Matthews
Qualifications: One is an official groupie, the other comprises our entire horn section. Determining which is which is left as an exercise for the reader. We gave the position to two people this year for entirely strategic purposes: We can recruit a new groupie to play the tambourine all the time without losing our horn player during gigs, and we make sure that annoying horn player is busy taking pictures for everything else ;) We had to make Drew a historian to keep his facebook albums from rivaling our own picture section. Sources say Lisa is really a clone of Sarah, and that another copy of her has been seen running around SDSU. Beware of the impending army of Barbie pepster clones!
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. Sean Harrington Harrington Harrington Harrington
Qualifications: Sean is another new recruit into the officer corps. He won the race for sexiest librarian by a slim margin, and we fully expect him to wear the sexy glasses he found on the ground all the time. Sean has long lusted after the position of music librarian, salivating at the thought of photocopiers, boxes of music hole punches and that sweet sweet laminater. He guarantees to have any new music to you hot off the presses as soon as you need it, even to the point of procrastinating any actual school work. Now that is dedication.
Job description: The music librarian is in charge of making, updating and distributing our the music to pep band members. Daniel Hill
Qualifications: Daniel won this position based on who had the best goofy grin. He was also the best candidate to be the public face of the band, judging by his ability to enthusiastically dance with large, brightly colored phallic objects and stick straws up his nose. To top it off, Daniel checks his e-mail about every 37 seconds, an impressive rate that even beats the Webmaster for digital obsessiveness. No bit of digital correspondence shall escape Daniel's watchful eye!
Job description: The PR manager is responsible for organizing events and promotions outside of athletics. This includes mostly community events. Chris Reinert
Qualifications: Chris regularly shows his spirit by devising awesome costumes and ideas for crazy cheers. He's noted for regularly wearing a kilt to rehearsals. He's even been seen attempting to outshout or previous peptide officer! Other than pepband, he's a member of the Dance-Sport team showing he has grace as well as musicality. Don't ask about that last picture, I don't know either.
Job description: The peptide is responsible for being our liason with the other spirit groups on campus. They are also responsible for being the emobidment of 'pep' for the band, and making sure the band shows it spirit during gigs. They are also in charge of helping new band members out as needed. Tsukasa Takahashi
Qualifications: Tsukasa previously served as the Treasurer. This year he decided he'd rather lead the band musically instead of financially. As you can see, he also likes doing his conch impression every chance he gets. Tsukasa was conductor of the UCSD Marching Band for the duration of it's existence, proving he has the chops to wave his hands in front of the pepband.
Job description: The head conductor keeps the other conductors in line, plans what music we need to rehearse and, obviously, conducting the band. Paul David Terry
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 has actually been in use by Roze for the past year. 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 wheew we can actually get something done. He actually managed to get in some pictures this year, and we have proof that he's really a traitorous mole from the Davis band. The Glorious 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.
This year each officer has six, SIX ah-ah-ah pictures each. See if you can find them all! (Hint: hit refresh)
Jump to:
[ Manager ]
[ Assistant Manager ]
[ Treasurer ]
[ Secretary ]
[ Webmaster ]
[ Historian ]
[ Music Librarian ]
[ Public Relations Manager ]
[ Peptide ]
[ Head Conductor ]
[ Director ]
[ The Glorious Hypnotoad ]
Qualifications: Scott is moving up (down?) from conducting the band to running the band. He plays the One True Instrument(tm) which makes him more than qualified to do whatever he wants regarding the band. Scott has also been known to be one of the small group of pepsters crazy enough to march in a drum corps (the blue devils). During his offtime, Scott can often be seen trying to convince people Music is also a real major and perfecting the art of sassy remarks.
Job description: The Manager is the leader of the band. They are in charge of organizing events and dealing with anyone who needs to be dealt with. The Manager tends to get their greedy little hands into a bit of everything. Roze Eveleth
Qualifications: Roze is one of our pepband groupies, though she has seen the light and is learning how to play The One True Instrument(tm). She previously served as our Public Relations Manager. After spending some time in Costa Rica (where she was saving remote villages from infestations of pygmy shrews using only molasses and a plastic spork) she got a bit of a wild side and decided to help manage the wild and crazy aspects of the band. Unfortunately for her this means that rehearsal time is no longer a prime time to do homework!
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. Zack Taich
Qualifications: Zack is one of the freshman recruits into the officer corps. He enjoyed stealing our tuba so much last year that now he wants to
Job description: The treasurer is in charge of managing the bank account. Duh. Sarah Steinman
Qualifications: Sarah returns for another year to put her obsessive calendaring and note-taking skills to use helping out the pepband. I suppose she enjoyed taking meeting minutes and making birthday cards so much she just couldn't stand to miss out doing them again this year. In fact, Sarah has become so co-dependent on the band she becomes physically ill when she doesn't get her daily dose of pep. Now that, my friends, is true dedication. Go Sarah!
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. Caleb Crawford
Qualifications: Caleb officially holds the title of holding one officer position for the most consecutive years. He also holds the dubious distinction of being Staff, Student and Alumni all at once. In addition to playing The One True Instrument(tm) (that makes three officers!) he also is channeling his inner redneck and learning to play the banjo. When hes not slaving away hacking code on the website, he's typically defending the band from marauding ninjas and pirates. And if you were in doubt of his l33t sk1llz, try this on for size:
#!/usr/bin/perl
while(1){''=~('(?{'.('./).]{'^'^]@@)[').'"'.('~/]@{=?,@^{]//{~@^@?[]@/}'^'(@)%[~^@%<[;@][)%<-^()%]_').',$/})');}
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. Drew Mandinach & Lisa Matthews
Qualifications: One is an official groupie, the other comprises our entire horn section. Determining which is which is left as an exercise for the reader. We gave the position to two people this year for entirely strategic purposes: We can recruit a new groupie to play the tambourine all the time without losing our horn player during gigs, and we make sure that annoying horn player is busy taking pictures for everything else ;) We had to make Drew a historian to keep his facebook albums from rivaling our own picture section. Sources say Lisa is really a clone of Sarah, and that another copy of her has been seen running around SDSU. Beware of the impending army of Barbie pepster clones!
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. Sean Harrington Harrington Harrington Harrington
Qualifications: Sean is another new recruit into the officer corps. He won the race for sexiest librarian by a slim margin, and we fully expect him to wear the sexy glasses he found on the ground all the time. Sean has long lusted after the position of music librarian, salivating at the thought of photocopiers, boxes of music hole punches and that sweet sweet laminater. He guarantees to have any new music to you hot off the presses as soon as you need it, even to the point of procrastinating any actual school work. Now that is dedication.
Job description: The music librarian is in charge of making, updating and distributing our the music to pep band members. Daniel Hill
Qualifications: Daniel won this position based on who had the best goofy grin. He was also the best candidate to be the public face of the band, judging by his ability to enthusiastically dance with large, brightly colored phallic objects and stick straws up his nose. To top it off, Daniel checks his e-mail about every 37 seconds, an impressive rate that even beats the Webmaster for digital obsessiveness. No bit of digital correspondence shall escape Daniel's watchful eye!
Job description: The PR manager is responsible for organizing events and promotions outside of athletics. This includes mostly community events. Chris Reinert
Qualifications: Chris regularly shows his spirit by devising awesome costumes and ideas for crazy cheers. He's noted for regularly wearing a kilt to rehearsals. He's even been seen attempting to outshout or previous peptide officer! Other than pepband, he's a member of the Dance-Sport team showing he has grace as well as musicality. Don't ask about that last picture, I don't know either.
Job description: The peptide is responsible for being our liason with the other spirit groups on campus. They are also responsible for being the emobidment of 'pep' for the band, and making sure the band shows it spirit during gigs. They are also in charge of helping new band members out as needed. Tsukasa Takahashi
Qualifications: Tsukasa previously served as the Treasurer. This year he decided he'd rather lead the band musically instead of financially. As you can see, he also likes doing his conch impression every chance he gets. Tsukasa was conductor of the UCSD Marching Band for the duration of it's existence, proving he has the chops to wave his hands in front of the pepband.
Job description: The head conductor keeps the other conductors in line, plans what music we need to rehearse and, obviously, conducting the band. Paul David Terry
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 has actually been in use by Roze for the past year. 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 wheew we can actually get something done. He actually managed to get in some pictures this year, and we have proof that he's really a traitorous mole from the Davis band. The Glorious 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.
