One more charge

There's one more charge, I believe, which Jessica Wren filed against the Material Science and Engineering Association (MSEA). MSEA is not ASUC-funded, but it is an ASUC-sponsored student group, and used an OCF-hosted website to endorse candidates. The charges are against Ilana Nankin, Eunice Moon, Dwight Asuncion, Curtis Lee, Wayne Feng, Winnie Kuo, and Alex Mastrodonato, for using ASUC resources to campaign, and Wren is seeking 3 censures for each. I don't think there's any doubt that MSEA broke the rules that it was held to as an ASUC-sponsored organization (the OCF thing is a bit more iffy, in my opinion), and I hope the Senate reasonably considers consequences. (They endorsed the party in power, of course, so don't expect much)

For the candidates to be charged, MSEA would need to be their agent, which could be interpreted in various ways. If MSEA just unilaterally endorsed them and posted that endorsement, it's unlikely that the candidates are responsible. If they sought the endorsement, though, they may be responsible. I guess they could just lie.

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 4/17/2007 04:35:00 PM #
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Comments:

Maximum Censure Scorecard (as far as I can tell):

SA

Ilana Nankin - 8 (DQ)
Eunice Moon - 8 (DQ)
Dwight Asuncion - 9 (DQ)
Curtis Lee - 8 (DQ)

Wayne Feng - 4
Winnie Kuo - 4
Alex Mastrodonato - 3
Chris Wong - 2
Christian Osmena - 2
Grace Shen - 2
Lisa Patel - 1
Loretta Kwong - 1

CalSERVE

Jessica Parra-Fitch - 9 (DQ)
Gabriela Urena - 9 (DQ)
Shawn Jain - 3
Maurice Seaty - 1
Danielle Duong - 1
Roxanne Winston - 1
Dan Galeon - 1

BCR

Chad Kunert - 1

Independent

Nadir Shams - 13 (DQ)

DAAP

Whole Party - 1

# posted by  Ben N. : 8:50 PM, April 17, 2007

 

What's the difference between being ASUC-funded and ASUC-sponsored?

# posted by  jimf : 11:27 PM, April 17, 2007

 

Money.

# posted by  Beetle Aurora Drake : 11:35 PM, April 17, 2007

 

I'm so confused ... What does it mean for the ASUC to sponsor a student group if it doesn't necessarily mean there's any funding?

# posted by  jimf : 11:52 PM, April 17, 2007

 

ASUC-sponsored groups can apply for funding, apply for fee waivers for rooms in MLK, and use the ASUC's non-profit tax-id number when receiving donations.

# posted by  Anonymous : 3:48 PM, April 18, 2007

 

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