DQ’d Candidates Out For Revenge

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. Those same convicted cheaters are trying to kick out the democratically elected members of undergraduate student government in a bold move to take control for themselves!

Who are these individuals and what did they do?

Last year during the USG elections, a group of students known as “Students for Better Government” and their campaign volunteers committed the following crimes (in addition to other election rules violations):

(1) Stole hundreds of dollars from the University by illegally accessing the Residents Hall Association printer and using it to print almost 1000 full color campaign fliers.
Proof: SBG Steals from UIC

(2) Violated Multiple University Housing Policies and the privacy of thousands of residents by knocking on the door nearly every campus housing residents’ rooms between midnight and 1am to solicit votes for their candidates.

(3) Set up “fake” voting booths designed to look like official voting booths and then engaged in illegal electioneering practices by telling those who walked by how to vote while they were voting (this is also against federal and state laws).

(4) Lied to University officials in order to stage an event in the Quad that they said was to “promote general election awareness” but turned out be to distribute ONLY their campaign materials, and solicit votes illegally through numerous voting booths while engaging in bribery to get students to vote for them.

The list goes on, but you get the picture. Who are these people? You may be shocked to hear it, but they all found a loophole and found a way to get onto your student government, and they now control the majority:

Joel Ebert, disqualified for 2 violations of the Student Disciplinary Policy and 1 violation of election rules.	Sean Murray, disqualified for 2 violations of the Student Disciplinary Policy and 1 violation of election rules.
Sara Agate, disqualified for 1 violation of the Student Disciplinary Policy	Cecilia Real, disqualified for 1 violation of the Student Disciplinary Policy
Danielle Schubert, disqualified for 1 violation of the Student Disciplinary Policy	Heather Kaufman & Geoff Berkheimer, disqualified for 2 violations of the Student Disciplinary Policy

Megan Calcaterra, SBG Campaigner – election fraud (Case #9, Rule #4, Level 1)

I know what you’re thinking. How are they even allowed to be on USG after what they did? Well, there was a loophole in the system, one that even the UIC administration is not happy with. The complaints filed against them were not filed through the University Judicial process because the understanding was that by filing them through the Election Review Board, they would eventually reach a Judicial Hearing. This turned out to be wrong. Being found guilty there would have gone on their permanent college records and barred them from ever being allowed to serve in USG. They got lucky and slid through a loophole in the system.

Whom are they attacking and on what grounds?

Kevin Lee, is the democratically elected Vice President of USG. Kevin is a model UIC pre-pharmacy movement science student here at UIC. He climbed his way onto the Dean’s List multiple times through outstanding academic achievement. He cemented his status as a student leader by earning the coveted Chancellor’s Student Leadership Award. He founded the 2008-09 Leadership Fraternity of the Year, Beta Kappa Zeta. He volunteers tirelessly for the Chicago Park District, at Condell Hospital, and as an English Language Tutor to immigrants.

In his short time as USG Vice President, he has excelled in his duties. His accomplishments include ensuring that the office is staffed five days a week during regular business hours for the first time in USG history and managing the creation and implementation of the modern new USG website, uicusg.org after a 1 year outage of the USG website. Kevin Lee is beyond reproach.

Yet, SBG members and associates have threatened to impeach Kevin Lee if he does not resign! This is ludicrous. Even Dean Malcolm Smith, the advisor to USG, applauds the work Kevin has been doing in USG, but they do not seek much listen to their advisor’s advice. SBG and associates will stop at nothing to take full control of your student government and take revenge on those who were elected after their disqualification.

A major part of their complaint against Kevin is that he has not attended USG meetings regularly this semester. Well, that is true – but only because they made sure to purposely and knowingly schedule the meetings during when both Kevin Lee & Damian Wolak, the USG President have class! Talk about sneaky! This should have never happened, but at the time, they already controlled the assembly and no one would stop them.

How can you stop this from happening?

COLLECT PETITION SIGNATURES!

Bring signatures from your fellow undergraduate students on these two petitions:
1. Demand Resignation of Election Cheats

COME TO A MEETING AND VOICE YOUR SUPPORT FOR KEVIN LEE!

Tonight, 10/22 @ 5pm – USG Meeting in SCE, Ft Dearborn Room.
- Impeachment charges may be brought against Kevin Lee, or he may be forced to resign.

Thursday, 10/29 @ 5pm – USG Meeting in SCE, Ft. Dearborn Room.
- Impeachment charges or resignation request will be voted on by the assembly.

Also, EMAIL your Student Affairs Staff and USG Representatives and tell them how you feel about what is being done to Kevin Lee.

CLICK HERE TO EMAIL EVERYONE

Barbara Henley, Ph.D.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
bhenley@uic.edu

Linda Deanna, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Chancellor/Dean of Students
ldeanna@uic.edu

J. Malcolm Smith
Assistant Dean of Students
Advisor to USG – does not get a vote
jmalcolm@uic.edu

Damian Wolak
President of USG
usgpresident@gmail.com

Kevin lee
Vice President of USG
usgvicepresident@gmail.com

Roshina Khan
Speaker of the Assembly
usgspeaker@gmail.com

Joel Ebert – disqualified Student Trustee Candidate, April 2009
USG Assembly Member
Co-Founder of SBG
Former Editor for The Chicago Flame
jebert3@uic.edu

Sean Murray – disqualified USG Vice President Candidate, April 2009
USG Assembly Member
President of SBG
Current writer for The Chicago Flame
smurra3@uic.edu

Sara Agate – disqualified Assembly Candidate; reinstated May 2009
USG Assembly Member
Member of SBG
sagate2@uic.edu

Bernadette Casaclang – disqualified Assembly Candidate; reinstated May 2009
USG Assembly Member
Member of SBG
bcasac2@uic.edu

Heather Kaufman – disqualified Assembly Candidate; reinstated May 2009
USG Assembly Member
Member of SBG
Former contributor to The Chicago Flame
hkaufm2@uic.edu

Cecilia Real – disqualified Assembly Candidate; reinstated May 2009
USG Assembly Member
Member of SBG
creal2@uic.edu

Danielle Schubert – disqualified Assembly Candidate; reinstated May 2009
USG Assembly Member
Member of SBG
dschub2@uic.edu

Geoff Berkheimer – disqualified Assembly Candidate; reinstated May 2009
USG Assembly Member
Member of SBG
Former contributor to The Chicago Flame
gberkh2@uic.edu

Megan Calcaterra – caught illegally campaigning for SBG, April 2009
USG Assembly Member
Affiliate of SBG
mcalca2@uic.edu

Jake ‘Ohsofresh’ Johnson – participated in the SBG campaign, April 2009
USG Assembly Member
jjohns82@uic.edu

Saad Jamil – USG Vice Presidential Candidate, April 2009
USG Assembly Member
sjamil2@uic.edu

Vrushank Shah – returning member from 2008-09
USG Assembly Member
vshahs2@uic.edu

Areazue Hosseini – returning member from 2008-09
USG Assembly Member
ahosse4@uic.edu

Alex Fernandez – returning member from 2008-09
USG Assembly Member
aferna7@uic.edu

Johnathan Hoekstra – new to USG
USG Assembly Member
jhoeks5@uic.edu

Monika Karczmarczyk – new to USG
USG Assembly Member
mkarcz2@uic.edu

Agnieszka Kirpa – new to USG
USG Assembly Member
akirpa2@uic.edu

Steve Mower – new to USG
USG Assembly Member
smower2@uic.edu

Alex Rogers – new to USG
USG Assembly Member
aroger4@uic.edu

Davor Trnovljakovic – new to USG
USG Assembly Member
dtrnov2@uic.edu

Alma Zamudio – new to USG
USG Assembly Member
azamud2@uic.edu