Word: irc
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...delegations from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel to participate in a mock Mid-East summit. "If you talk to people at the Model U.N. they respect his ability to get things done, even if he does it exceedingly" said Grossman. For example, Kashani's security-consciousness was notorious. One IRC member described how at the high school U.N.s "he would charge around like a maniac all night," busting parties and confiscating alcohol. Saied closed off Ian Smith's speech to the Model U.N. even to the press. Kashani sometimes offered the Conservative Club's services as a security force...
Kashani's management style and personality ran afoul of some of the other members of the IRC. "He tends to go around people he should talk to. He goes and does things that he doesn't have the power to do," said a member of the IRC. Another complained of excessive perfectionism, and unreasonable requests...
However, Kashani had his share of defenders in the IRC. "The hallmark of that whole organization is infighting and politics," said another IRC member. "It's the breeding ground of the petty bureaucrat. Anyone with any life destroys their organizational chart...
After the college conference a group of graduating seniors attempted to impeach Kashani, on the grounds that he had broken IRC rules by inviting Smith, and because of accounting irregularities from the year before, when Kashani was Secretary-General. The motion was tabled by a one-vote margin. Kashani believes that "the reason it was only graduating seniors [who voted against Kashani] was because anyone on the board who had supported this would have been driven out of office at the next election...
Like many other Iranians, Kashani became politically mobilized by the Iranian Revolution. he blames the fall of the Shah on the kind "of people who think they're improving a country--with new values, liberal values--and end up ruining a country." One member of the IRC who had spoken extensively with Kashani about his views declared "he's afraid of revolutions." Dean of Students Archie C. Epps concurs, saying, "His conservativism is enforced by the fact that his family is from Iran, and is a reflection of recapturing the glory of Iran. These are conservatives whose ideas are rooted...