Comments on: Oliaro overturns 7 election disqualifications

By: No to student fees

No to student fees — Mon, 11 May 2009 07:07:50 +0000

student of 09 you should have read what alumni of 88 posted. Just by the structure of the words you used, you are part of the useless leftover mess that the slow death of fresno state suffers from. Its too bad you probably never have read that book.

By: Student of '09

Student of '09 — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:03:03 +0000

As this situation comes to a close, I am very sad to see how it has ended up. I have watched these elections very closely, and have noticed some odd occurrences. One was that The Students Who Deserve More campaign was very strategically savvy, almost textbook; it looked like they had a pro running their campaign. The PEDRO slate did a well job campaigning as well but found to have a few glitches; first it is suicide to run with ten people, you are bound to have some loose cannons especially in the leadership. Deserve More ran with three which is about the most you can run together to achieve anything. The election code is not to the standards it should be, but you still should run as close to them as possible. A slate should be held accountable as a whole for the violations. Each candidate where or not he/she participated gained an unfair advantage by having their posters up in unlawful areas. PEDRO’s argument was that the opposing campaign put them up. I think this is the most ridiculous statement I have heard, why would the opposition help the other campaign. The Students Who Deserve More campaign got one violation for having ONE poster in a wrong area, while PEDRO had 10+ posters up in unlawful areas, yet now they were not penalized for all of them. Looking into the future of ASI I believe that the PEDRO candidates will cause nothing but trouble for ASI and hopefully they will not ruin the program. Dr. Oliaro only over turned the results so these nut jobs wouldn’t sue the school, so he gave them some crappy positions on the Senate. Heck Tom who ran for president is still friends with these people and Tom’s wife already sued ASI once. What’s the future look like for ASI…..nothing but hassles with PEDRO in the offices!!

By: Alumni of 88

Alumni of 88 — Sat, 09 May 2009 21:36:37 +0000

I agree, even when i was a student over many years ago, there was so much controversy over the student codes and how they are written. Not to add other administratve “rules” Your voice is slowly being kept silent even with the library construction. Do all students have access to the 4th floor? Will your concerns to the President really reach that high? Students never really bother to look at them or challenge them and i commend these students for having the audacity to take on such a task. They are doing what other students are incapable or otherwise too afraid too step up and do. If anyone is reading this get the book “The Slow Death of Fresno State by Kenneth Seib (1979) You will understand how the University was constructed to keep students such as this PEDRO slate, outside the University gates. Belive me students the community is watching, so are us old Alumni, but its up to you currently enrolled to make a difference.

By: dw

dw — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:55:26 +0000

The Election Code has been an embarrassment to this campus for too many years. It has been used and abused to disenfranchise students for over 20 years. I agree with Dr. Oliaro–it’s time to overhaul the code and that joke called Student Court. I’d go one step further–Long Beach needs to send the auditors in and investigate the current crew in power.

By: Jared Harper

Jared Harper — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:49:04 +0000

poor Julianne….. your bias clearly shows in your comments. Did you not read?
those students did all the proper things necessary to have thier rightful seat in the ASI student government and yet persons such as yourself feel its ok to overpower progressive intelligent students, you should read the By-laws. Read the story again and read the last paragrpah that Dr. Oliaro recommends….ASI NEEDS to re-evaluate its bylaws and regulations. You cannot hold those students accountable for rules that do not exist on paper. Another note, its is not ok to punish an entire group for a violation if it is not written in the bylaws, and it should be that way.

By: Julianne Phillips

Julianne Phillips — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:12:08 +0000

The truth is, the decision to disqualify the entire group was one that should have been upheld. All of their names and all of their pictures were used in their campaign, and they all deserved to be punished.With so much publicity in this campaign surrounding the fact that students had organized and decided to run together it is only logical to believe that when any member of the group acts on behalf of that group they will all be penalized. They should have been more careful and given more thought to who lined up behind. Poor jusdgemnet and lack of decision making skills should not be rewarded, nor are those the people who should be leading our student body.