USG Watchdog

In an election, there are two basic type of people: candidates and constituents. The candidate’s job is to get their message out to the constituents, and in an ideal world, merely work to persuade the constituents to vote in their favor. This isn’t an ideal world, and we all know that candidates ultimately [...]

Tonight, 8 members of the USG Assembly were served with a petition signed by 595 undergraduate students demanding their resignations. Having caught wind ahead of time, some of individuals and their associates scrambled to censor or limit the public’s delivery of these signatures, however cooler heads prevailed and the speaker was allowed to speak [...]

The following was delivered as a speech at the USG Assembly Meeting on October 22, 2009.

There are convicted election cheaters serving in your student government who were NOT legitimately elected but SELF-APPOINTED through a loophole in the system to fill vacant seats.

I was raised with a very cut & dry/black & white idea of right & wrong.  It wasn’t until my 20’s that this idealism was seriously challenged, and I learned to embrace the varying shades of grey that represent the complex world in which we live.
So, when I first heard that the USG assembly candidates [...]