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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Groups clash over student election
By James Duncan
Associate News Editor
Between two groups at Clackamas Community
College there is a kind of conflict. One side sees
everything as right, and the other sees everything
as wrong. For some time now the Political Science
Club views the way Associated Student Government
handles their operations as incorrect and has a few
things to say about it. ASG, on the other hand, says
that everything is going just the way it always has
and that they are doing what is best for the school.
In the past few months, a movement has started
within the Political Science Club to change the
bylaws and constitution of ASG. The main policy
in question is a rule that anyone who is going to
run for the presidency or vice presidency has to
have been part of the ASG for two terms starting
in the fall.
Mario Smith, a student at CCC and candidate
for the board of education, said that the way ASG
runs its operation is “the same way Saddam Hussein
ran his regime; the way many of these countries in
the Middle East we have been fighting have been
runnning. It’s not democratic in the slightest.”
“We found out that they are actually not elected
by the student body,” said Smith. “It is false that
they claim that; I know (Alyssa) Fava claimed in
a board of education meeting that they did. It is a
panel of their peers that elect them. They do collect
ballots from the students, but from what we have
read in the constitution and the bylaws that’s not
what they actually use to elect them.”
The accusations of Smith have circulated through
out the Political Science Club, but the validity has
yet to be confirmed. However, ASG does have a
voting process that is held online every year. This
year voting will be held May 16 and 17.
“I would believe that (Smith) makes a compari
son I would not be able to entirely comment as to
the fact of its truthfulness, only because I haven’t
researched it myself,” said Christopher Thomson,
president of the Political Science Club and head
of the movement to reform the policies of the
Associated Student Governement. "... I trust Mario
to be a better judge of people. If she does say it, it
would-be worth investigating into its truthfulness.
about an organization that does so much for tl
student body.”
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Our main goal is to be student
leaders and serve the students of CCC.
Alyssa Fava
ASG president
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“I think that the majority of what they learn
during ASG is exclusive to an executive type of
position,” he said. “They enforce the rules that are
established by them, not to make a leadership judg
ment which is a majority of what a president and
vice president should do.”
In response to these accusations by Smith, Fava
said “I think that is a strong statement to make
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Correction
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In the April 20 issue, the dates and speakers were not correct in
“Doing your part for the environment.”
The correct dates are:
April 21: The Story of Stuff: Hie Surprising Environmental
Impact of Consumption, featuring David Allaway,
The second hour will feature a Q&A session. Lectures will be
held in the McLoughlin Theater.
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