Interview with Elder: Kurtis Guelff (Transcript)

This interview was done by email. Only punctuation and capitalization has been changed. Exact wording has not been altered.

I: Please state your full name, what year you had Mr. P., and what period you were in, for public record. 
K:Kurtis Alan Guelff, 2011-2012, Period 2.
I: Please explain, in as much detail as possible, what happened in your year. I heard from another Elder that there had been a war.
K: There was almost a war. Haseeb was a stock broker in my class who owned every period in P-Ville because of the amount of money he had in each period. Another period declared war on my period. They had a war document already written out and ready to go. Myself and a fellow P-Villian were able to settle the differences by giving the power back to the periods but Haseeb still holds his money.
I: Interesting. What period were you in? How did you calm the other periods? 
K: I was in Period 2. The way to calm other periods is by believing that they got what they wanted. We gave them the power of their periods back when in reality they had it the whole time. They just didn't want that sphere of influence to be looming over them so we took his money out of the periods but he kept his money and ended up distributing it out within the period making the period as a whole stronger than the others.
I: That's pretty cool. So you guys were on the side of peace then, you didn't want war? Do you think your situation parallels the war between Period 3 and Period 6 this year?
NOTE: Kurtis is the T.A. for Period 5. He had previously been informed about the war. 
K:Yea we wanted peace. If there is no strong reason to go to war, you should try and avoid it at all times. I don't know if it does. The war Period 3 wants has no reasoning. It's a dumb reason to go to war just because you want to. No war has been fought and already they are already suffering losses from it while the other periods prevail. 
I: There might be a good reason for them to go to war. So far, the only reason I have heard was to take down Period 6, but there might be a different reason. Do you think going to court is the right way to resolve the issue? If so, why?
K: It's a whole lot better than war. If you can resolve this peacefully then that is the better way to do it.
I: Are you planning to be a Supreme Court Judge?
K: I am still not sure, I might be.
I: If you choose to take the case, how would you resolve the issue?
K: It's hard to say without seeing all of the information and hearing both sides.
I: That's true. How would you have reacted to the fact that neither periods (or any others for that matter) submitted briefs to speak in court?
K: I wouldn't be shocked, I'd be a little surprised that they wouldn't want to talk about it but sometimes people set their minds on what they want to do.
I: Hm. Thanks so much for answering all these questions! :) If I come up with more questions, do you mind if I ask them?
K: Not at all, ask away.

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DISCLAIMER: The opinions presented by Elder Kurtis Guelff do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this reporter.