Round 3 - MMcK

Question 1

1. Please state your name and occupation for the court.

Answer 1

My name is Marnie McKenzie and I am a vet student at Perth University.

Question 2

2. Please tell the court what you know about the Triple Crown event.

Answer 2

I am also one of the organisers of the Triple Crown event at the university.

Question 3

3. How did you help with this year’s event?

Answer 3

I personally placed lots of big signs around campus a week before the crown.

Question 4

4. What did those signs say?

Answer 4

They were warning people about the event, and the possibility that they might get splashed if they wear certain fluoro colours that day, or stand to close to someone else wearing those colours.

Question 5

5. What, if any, information was given to students about how to join the event?

Answer 5

As well as the posters, we put up lots of flyers around the campus explaining the rules of the Crown event, and how to sign up. I can produce a copy of the flyer if requested.

Question 6

7. Please can you tell the court what that document is?

Answer 6

This is one of the flyers that we put up around campus explaining the rules of the event and how to sign up.

Question 7

8. You have evidence earlier that the signs you put up warned people against wearing fluoro colours, what does the document say about team colours?

Answer 7

Below the image of the crown, in the middle of the flyer, there is a breakdown of the colours of each team. Team Law is fluoro orange, Team Economics is fluoro pink, and Team Geology is fluoro yellow.

Question 8

9. Given team colours are predetermined, what does the flyer say about what participants should wear?

Answer 8

It reads: “All ‘live’ participants must wear an outfit that is predominantly the colour of their team, from the waist up. Suggestions include high-vis vests, sashes, bandoliers, bandanas, armbands, skivvies.”

Question 9

10. You gave evidence before about signs on
    campus warning against the possibility of getting
    splashed – what does the flyer say about that?

Answer 9

It says, “Prepare to get soaked! Needless to say, anyone who is signing up should be aware that they almost certainly will be splashed at some point during the day. You have been warned!”

Question 10

12. What was your role on the day of this year’s

event?

Answer 10

On the day of the Triple Crown – the 20th of March – I was working as a referee.

Question 11

13. What does the role of referee entail?

Answer 11

Dressing up in a costume and helping make sure

everyone is safe and following the rules.

Question 12

14. You just said that part of your role is to make
    sure everyone is following the rules, why did you have
    to do that?

Answer 12

Well, you see, last year the organisers of the Crown, myself included,
got in trouble because some of the players weren’t very careful about who they threw water balloons at, and some professors were accidentally hit.

Question 13

15. What did you wear as a costume?

Answer 13

Well, unfortunately, the costume I ordered for this year was something that was a bit awkward to move around in, and it restricted my field of vision. It was one of those inflatable T-rex dinosaur full body costumes.

Question 14

16. How long did you have to wear the costume for?

Answer 14

It was all in good fun, so I wore it all day and did my duties the best I could.

Question 15

17. When did you see Ms Mardani that day?

Answer 15

I distinctly remember at one point in the morning I saw

Rana Mardani walking along the referee’s area.

Question 16

18. What was she wearing?

Answer 16

She was wearing a very bright orange poncho.

Question 17

19. How do you know Ms Mardani?

Answer 17

I don’t know Rana personally but she is famous around the entire university for being the girl who publicly dumped her boyfriend at a university ball last year.

Question 18

20. What was Ms Mardani doing when you saw her?

Answer 18

Because of the poncho, I assumed she was participating in the crown.

Question 19

21. Why was that?

Answer 19

It looked a lot like what some of the law students participating in the game were wearing that morning.

Question 20

22. What did you do when you saw Ms Mardani?

Answer 20

I started to go over to her to tell her that she wasn’t

allowed in the referee area while she was a ‘live’ player in the game.

Question 21

23. How did Ms Mardani respond?

Answer 21

Well, when I got much closer, maybe only a few metres away, I realised that she was in a different shade of
orange and she wasn’t playing the game after all.

Question 22

24. What, if anything, did you say to her?

Answer 22

I didn’t end up stopping Rana or saying anything to her, but in hindsight, I wish I did.

Question 23

25. Why was that?

Answer 23

Because I found out the next day that she had been hit by someone with a water balloon.

Question 24

26. What did Ms Mardani do when she was hit by the

water balloon?

Answer 24

She reported to the university that she had been hit as a non-participant.

Question 25

27. What happened as a result of her report?

Answer 25

I am now in the process of having to write an appeal letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the university to try and overturn the decision to cancel the Triple Crown forever.

Question 26

28. What are you going to say in your letter?

Answer 26

I blame Rana for wearing something that pretty much
looked exactly like what the players in the game were
wearing.

Question 27

29. Why are you writing an appeal letter?

Answer 27

I’m going to tell the university because I’m pretty sure it

will help our case in getting the Triple Crown re-instated next year.