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Since its creation in 1998, the More Honors (MH) award ceremony has become one of AUBG’s most popular events. “As condensed as life is at AUBG, in both time and space, More-Honors is around 200 times more dense with what could be called the AUBG spirit,” says Petar Svarc, a member of MH 4 and MH 5 teams. The show is prepared and run on a yearly basis by a group of around 20 students. Membership in the academy was invitation-based until MH 10 when an open selection procedure was introduced. “We have changed the selection [procedure] because it is hard to spot everybody’s talent and the invitation process that was used before was limiting our ability to get the best people,” says MH co-president Vasil Petrakov. Now students are invited to submit their application forms in the beginning of the fall semester, and have to pass an interview to get into the academy. Each year the More Honors academy has one or two students responsible for overseeing the preparations for the show – the presidents. For the first three years of its existence, Anguel “Mostuna” Anguelov, one of the creators of the show was its president. He was followed by Dragomir Rashev (MH 4), Ladislau Szomoru (MH 5), Nikolay “Nikiboy” Georgiev and Ina Tontcheva (MH 6), Hristo Zaprianov and Boyan Raichev (“Itso” and “Pchelata”) – MH 7, Kaloyan Raikoff (MH 8), Agon Maliqi and Boryana Melnikliiska (MH 9), Vasil Petrakov and Dan Braghis (MH 10), Xenia Latii and Vasil Petrakov (MH 11). After MH 3, Anguelov and a few of “the most-valuable members” of the first three academies formed the More Honors Regalia – a body that owns the MH copyright and assures the continuation of MH. All former academy presidents and key contributors become MH Regalia members. Without interfering in the annual academy’s work, Regalia helps find sponsors, maintain the MH website, and an archive with the collection of all the videos starting with the very first ceremony, says Anguelov, currently head of the MH Regalia. “The MH spirit is one of fun and games. MH should not be taken seriously - no one should get upset over it or get too tied up with what the nominations or awards mean,” says Dragomir Rashev, MH 4 president. However, not everybody at AUBG seems to understand that. Since the very first ceremony, there were students and members of faculty and staff who found some nomination categories offensive and the promotional materials inappropriate. The reaction to the show was very hostile from the beginning, Anguelov recalls. “Some members of staff expressed the opinion that ‘they are personally offended’ by the MH logo, some faculty members were afraid that their nomination might cause them trouble with the provost, and asked me to withdraw their nominations. Even some students perceived it alarmingly - they went as far as to ask staff members to force us to take them out of nominations, or else they would sue.” Dragomir Rashev, MH 4 president says that such inadequate attitude towards the meaning of the nominations merely shows the immaturity of some AUBGers who “cannot handle the consequences of their actions or don’t feel secure enough to handle the others’ opinion of them.” The hostility persisted over the years. Students kept threatening to sue the academy, some members of the faculty and staff complained about a certain body part of the MH logo until in fall 2006 the logo was censored and now its original display on the university walls is prohibited. Some nomination categories change from year to year. Categories like Asskicker/Fighter, Dance-master or Businessman of the year no longer exist. Instead new categories like Lick-a-fessor were introduced. “There were always two kinds of nominations according to their meaning: single and double-meaning ones. The nominations for the latter might be perceived as either the best or the worst candidate for the specific category. However, it is all a matter of freedom of perception - that is precisely what MH is for,” Anguelov explains. “Self-irony is one of the fundamentals of the More-Honors spirit,” Anguelov says, and members of AUBG community should not forget about it.
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