His spartan office had an extremely transitional and un-vice-presidential feel -- standard-issue desk, standard-issue small, round conference table, disturbingly vivid green carpet.
On the metal school-issue desk between them he unrolled a slim stack of construction plans and began to leaf through them.
He sat behind a metal government-issue desk with a window overlooking Tranquility Hall, the dorm where Shockley lives with his fiancee while he learns how to walk on prosthetic legs and rehabilitates his body.
The humor is essential to Ziska's exploration of what global climate change could do to mankind's relationship with weeds; there are many days, he confesses, when his goal becomes nothing more than not ending up in a fetal position beneath his battleship gray, government-issue desk.
Each time, he has been arrested and issued desk appearance tickets for disorderly conduct.
The police said Wednesday morning that 86 people were arrested, with 34 held overnight and another 52 issued desk appearance tickets, on a day that also included pickets, marches and rallies in Midtown, Union Square, Washington Square Park and on the Lower East Side.
The parents were issued desk appearance tickets for misdemeanors -- endangering the welfare of a child and unlawfully dealing with a child -- and ordered to appear in town court next Thursday.
The percentage of dismissals is higher among people who were issued summonses, in a process akin to receiving a traffic ticket, compared with those who were issued desk appearance tickets, which defense lawyers said typically involved fingerprinting and photographing the recipient.
While some people were issued desk appearance tickets, others, like Sean, were arrested and spent a night in jail before seeing a judge.
