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...changing of the guard at the Undergraduate Council's meeting last night, and newly installed Vice President John A. Burton '01 was once again expelled from the council for truancy...
...what you will about Dan Burton - and INS lawyers are saying plenty right about now - the Indiana Republican knows how to throw a legislative monkey wrench. Immigration and Naturalization Services officials spent the weekend working to determine whether the eleventh-hour subpoena Burton filed Friday for Elian Gonzalez to testify before Congress February 10 will preclude the agency from returning the six-year-old boy to his father in Cuba by its stated deadline of January 14. And while Burton, a legislative ally of anti-Castro senator Jesse Helms, could be expected to find some way to both keep...
...commission takes no action against Driskell and Burton, it will set a terrible precedent for future council elections, one which says it is acceptable for the commission to make up the rules as it goes along...
Even more troubling is the commission's assertion that Driskell and Burton should not be disqualified because of their overwhelming victory. The rules must be enforced regardless of a candidate's popularity...
...recent elections did not occur on a level playing field for all candidates and therefore should not be considered valid in the minds of the members of the council or of anyone on this campus. In our minds, there is no doubt about it: Driskell and Burton cheated, and the commission is letting them get away with it. In order to eliminate this bad precedent and reward the other candidates for obeying the rules, Driskell and Burton should be disqualified from the council elections. The results of the election should be recalculated as though Driskell and Burton had never been...