CTHU Confirms Nomination of Cthulhu for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize

ARKHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, February 6, 2016 — Campus Crusade for Cthulhu (CTHU) confirms reports out of Oslo that Cthulhu, independent candidate for President of the United States, has been nominated for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination was submitted in advance of the Committee's January 31 deadline. It is the ninth the organization has filed in nine years.

The report surfaced Friday in the Kingsport Star Herald, which quoted Henriette Berg Aasen, director of the Peace Research Cooperative of Oslo. CTHU did not announce the submission when it was made and does not ordinarily announce it. The organization is confirming now because the report is accurate.

The nomination was made by a nominator qualified under the Committee's own statutes: a member of the faculty of one of our chapter institutions, in the professorial category the statutes admit. The Norwegian Nobel Committee withholds the names of nominators for fifty years. CTHU has elected to withhold this one for the same period. Our reasons are our own.

"We file every year, and every year we are not told whether it was read," said Latonia Tobin, Executive Director of Campus Crusade for Cthulhu, International. "That is not a complaint. A nomination is a matter of record, and the record is the part that lasts."

Alfred Nobel's will directs the prize toward fraternity between nations, toward the reduction of standing armies, and toward the holding of congresses for peace. The letter puts the candidate to the Committee on each. Nations are an arrangement, and the letter argues that arrangements of that kind do not survive His waking. An army is maintained against a rival. As to congresses, the Assembly has kept minutes of gatherings convened to settle differences since 1811, which is longer than the prize has existed.

"No other candidate in this race has offered an end to armed conflict," Tobin said. "Ours has not offered a timetable either. He has not needed one."

Each year's letter is retained by the Archive with that year's correspondence. The file has outgrown its drawer, which the Archive regards as the relevant measure of the campaign's progress.

CTHU takes no position on the outcome. The organization has nominated Cthulhu since 2008 and expects to nominate Cthulhu in 2017.

About Campus Crusade for Cthulhu Campus Crusade for Cthulhu (CTHU) is a religious nonprofit corporation founded in 1974 at Miskatonic State University. It keeps 323 chapters at colleges and universities across the United States, and correspondence with congregations elsewhere that it does not enumerate. Membership is free and open to all students, lettered and unlettered, including by correspondence. CCC International, the operating entity, is administered from the chapter house on Elm Street in Arkham, Massachusetts. Its filings are current.

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January 27, 2016

The Norwegian Nobel Committee
Henrik Ibsens Gate 51
NO-0255
Oslo, Norway

Re: Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize 2016 — Cthulhu

Dear Members of the Committee:

I submit, on behalf of Campus Crusade for Cthulhu, International, the nomination of Cthulhu for the Nobel Peace Prize 2016. The nomination is made by a nominator qualified under the statutes, whose signature appears on the enclosed form. This is our ninth submission. I do not know whether you read the first eight, and I have written this one as though you had not.

Human history is a record of atrocity. Governments have killed their own populations; wars have been fought for money and for land, and for belief systems their own authors did not hold. A great deal of it has been laid at the devil's door. There is no devil, and there is no need of one. What has been done to people has been done by people, and it will go on being done by people, because that is what we have always been.

I offer that as the case for the prize and not against it. If the fault is ours, the remedy is not.

There is a god among us. Not above us, and not for us. He has attended to this species since it came out of the water, and He has shaped what He attended to. Attention is not affection, and the Committee should not mistake the one for the other. We do not ask you to.

Alfred Nobel directed this prize toward fraternity between nations, toward the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and toward the holding and promotion of congresses for peace. We put the candidate to you on all three. Nations are an arrangement, and arrangements do not survive His waking. An army is a thing maintained against a rival, and rivalry is among the practices that will not be kept. As to congresses, our Assembly has kept minutes of gatherings convened to settle differences since 1811, which is eighty-four years older than the will you administer and ninety older than the prize.

When He rises from the Deep, humanity will finally know peace and understanding. Our conflicts will disperse. Our prejudices will fade. The Truth of existence will fill us. And those of us left will join as one in praise of Pax Cthulhia.

I respectfully request the Committee's consideration of Cthulhu for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.

Sincerely,

Sincerely,
Latonia Tobin
Executive Director
Campus Crusade for Cthulhu, International

Enclosure: nominator's statement of qualification