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= The Five Most Loathsome Violations of the Season =

Number Five
The Council began its evaluation of the 2101- 2103 season in Vienna, in an attempt to reach out to the population of musicians and composers who have been the growing target of criticism and discrimination over the past six or seven seasons. As the Council members of the Poetic Analysis Subgroup opened their division of the eight-day Evaluation Event for the area, the proceedings were halted within the hour by a disgraceful anthology by Lukas Prock. Prock's anthology consisted of what he called "prose poetry," which he described as the ultimate form of free verse. Each piece of "prose poetry" presented dealt with what the Council later learned were Physics concepts. In each "poem," the concept was explained and then applied to an "Example Problem." In addition to this, he included computer-generated diagrams with each "poem." The Poetic Analysis Subgroup held a three-hour emergency conference in order to determine what the anthology intended to accomplish, and how to address such a unique violation. It was agreed that he would be sent to the Van Gogh School for Troubled Artists for two seasons for offensive themes and distracting forms. This is Prock's second offense, and he recently announced that he will be giving up his ear voluntarily in order to join the Art Preservation and Illumination team in the Work Force.

The Cairo Evaluation Event had an astoundingly low amount of violations this season. With a total of only fifteen over the course of eight days, Cairo 2101-2103 is ranked the third most successful Event in Council history. Of the fifteen violations, Suma Mubarak stands out the most. This was her first season, and her debut as a painter. But the collection she presented was completely void of paint. She presented a seven-piece sequential series in pen-and-ink, a medium that hasn't been seen since it was banned 25 years ago. While her work was admirably detailed, the Two-Dimensional Visual Arts Analysis Subgroup maintained that the area was reserved for paintings only. Pen-and-ink works were banned in 2078 because they failed to allow for expression through color, one of the most important aspects of the Two-Dimensional Visual Arts division of art, and because the left-handed population found them difficult to complete without smudging, and was therefore a discriminatory medium. Mubarak will attend the Van Gogh School for half of this upcoming season in order to learn less distracting techniques, and will return with a slightly smaller exhibit for 2104-2106.
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Number Three
French sculptor Pierre Arnaud, who has received the Council's Global Commendation for Exemplary Artistic Achievement in Sclupture for the past three seasons, shocked the world by presenting a piece with an offensive theme. After a painstaking analysis period of two days of the Evaluation Event, the Three-Dimensional Visual Arts Analysis Subgroup announced that "Bronze Bunny" expressed feelings of conceit. Council member Harold James attributes this startling shift to Arnaud's recently cancelled engagement with James' daughter. Elaine James and Arnaud's upcoming wedding had been projected to be the event of the century, and the power couple had a promising future as Council Directors. "After Arnaud called off the wedding in order to focus on his work," James explains, "his hidden egotism was unintentionally revealed in 'Bronze Bunny' - particularly in the ear positions." This is obviously Arnaud's first violation, and he will spend a complete season in the Van Gogh school - half a season devoted to remedial theme study, and the other half spent teaching techniques of sculpture.

**Number Two** Linda Bryant appeared at the London Evaluation Event //wearing// her piece. She spent her season experimenting with textiles, and somehow managed to acquire fabric and a sewing machine from the Work Force. The Council has launched an investigation to locate her provider. Her piece was done in Council White, as opposed to Artist Black, and was covered in collars, which adorned sweater necks early last century before the Uniform Code was passed. She claims her piece to be surrealist, and expressing the outdated evaluation techniques of the Council itself. Needless to say, she is being immediately sent to the Work Force, and lost her ear that day for severely distracting work affecting not only artistic expression, but also the day-to-day life of others, and severe offensiveness.

Number One
In an attempt to find an appropriate location for the New York Evaluation Event, Council Directors scoured the city for the starkest locations for optimum evaluation without distraction. During their search, they stumbled into arguably the most offensive violation of the Council's existence. An underground alliance of "performing artists" was found acting in single and group events at what they called the DEvaluation Event - an impertinent and foolish attempt to undermine Council authority. The Council banned acting when it was first established, because the purpose of art is to express personal beliefs and feelings. This cannot be done by expressing the feelings and beliefs of others. All of the themes expressed were offensive, and the actors were sent indefinitely to Van Gogh for offensive themes and actions as well as plagiarism.