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...first construction project of the present Undergraduate Council was to rebuild its currently dilapidated image, one wonders if the blueprints call for a wrecking crane. More than one month after allegations of campaign violations surfaced, newly elected council president Fentrice D. Driskell '01 and vice president John A. Burton '01 have, disappointingly, failed to address adequately a number of critical issues. But equally disturbing is the recent decision by council members to "impeach" Burton and place him on "trial"--an inappropriate action that subverts the vice president's accountability to the students and, in all likelihood, will serve to speed...
...allegations against the Driskell/Burton campaign are certainly serious. Burton has admitted to taking more than 100 buttons from the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA) for campaign purposes, calling them a "freely available resource" that any student could take. However, by most accounts, this is not completely accurate--access to the buttons required a key and BGLTSA board members have said they would not have allowed other students to take the buttons...
...allegations. According to Driskell, one BGLTSA board member had contacted him about the buttons, and "a misunderstanding ensued when other board members were informed after the buttons had already been used." However it is the nature of this "misunderstanding" that needs to be explicitly addressed. According to the BGLTSA, Burton never had permission to take the buttons and any representation of the buttons as a "freely available resource" to the election commission would have been inaccurate...
...only way for the public to sort through this finger-pointing is for Burton and Driskell to make a formal and honest statement to the student body describing exactly what happened. Such a frank statement of facts should clear up, once and for all, whether Burton willfully misled the commission. If so, the students--not the council representatives--should decide whether or not such acts are truly serious enough to warrant removal from what is a primarily bureaucratic office...
While we can certainly understand the frustrations of Kyle D. Hawkins '02 and John P. Marshall '01, the motion's sponsors, in getting information from the Driskell and Burton, the motion is flawed in a number of ways. First, the motion itself lacks a certain degree of legitimacy. The vast majority of those who have signed onto the motion ran on or worked for rival campaigns, and it is hard to believe that political bitterness is without influence. The BGLTSA has also publicly condemned the motion, further damaging the motion's credibility...