Word: resignations
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Given the illegitimacy of his own selection, Capp has only one choice if he intends to serve with any sort of mandate; he must resign to run in a special vice presidential election in the fall in which the student body—or, at the very least, the new Undergraduate Council membership—would have the chance to choose its second-in-command, and to grant or deny Capp the office that he now holds illegitimately...
...future, if the council vice president resigns too late in the year for proper full elections to take place, the council should internally elect an interim vice president, to serve until the soonest convenient time at which a student vote can take place. This would ensure that the summer remains a productive time for the council, without costing undergraduates their rightful say in the selection of their vice president. Of course, if the vice president were to resign when it was convenient for a full student-body vote to be held, then a permanent replacement ought to be elected, with...
West has refused to resign, but he is taking what city spokeswoman Marlene Feist calls "a vacation ... to sort this situation out." So far, few Republican leaders have demanded he step down. One exception is Shaun Cross, a Spokane conservative who ran for Congress last year. The mayor, he says, "has created a tsunami of hypocrisy." Feist says Spokane's response has been mixed. Some people have called in sounding supportive, some upset. Still others say West is in their prayers. --Reported by Sandeep Kaushik/Spokane
...decision by Ian W. Nichols ’06 to resign on Sunday as Undergraduate Council (UC) Vice President was the best possible outcome for both the UC and the student body at large. As expected, Nichols turned out to be a contrarian Vice President, with a vision for the Council that did not line up with what the rest of the UC Executive Board had in mind. If the UC’s top leadership expected Nichols to be the same sort of Vice President as former VP Michael R. Blickstead ’05—a former...
...elections—said after the meeting that there had been “talk of a petition” among UC members that would begin the process of impeaching Nichols after his unexplained absences, but that he did not think that Nichols had been threatened with it to resign...