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ACSU recruitment kick-off greeted with no applications
Shelley Woll
Issue date: 2/24/09 Section: News
No applications have been received so far for next year's student government leadership positions, officials said Monday, which was the first day the Associated Students of CSU started accepting them.
Phillip Camillo, the director of marketing for ASCSU, said the organization didn't expect to have applicants this early because word regarding the openings won't get out until later this week when, he said, student heads will start beefing up advertising and meeting with college leaders across campus.
But Camillo said he hopes the turnout for positions accelerates, as only 25 out of 35 Senate seats are currently filled, and only one out of the three positions for graduate students are filled.
And the turnover at ASCSU is expected to be substantial, with most of the integral figures in the organization moving on to graduate school or minimizing their roles to focus on school next year.
Camillo said duties of senators in the organization are largely ambiguous, which leads to misunderstandings between the Senate and individual colleges at CSU.
"We wanted to revamp the senate recruitment this year to create competition within the election and to fill every seat we can," Camillo said. "I don't think most students realize how important the Senate is and how much stuff they do."
Zane Guilfoyle, the chair of the student government Elections Committee this year, said no information about applicants will be released until March 13 when the application process is over.
Last year's elections saw heavy controversy, when, for the first time in its 102-year history, Taylor Smoot and Quinn Girrens' election to top executive positions was appealed under what a former chief justice called "gross violations" of campaign policy.
Edward Modec, the student who filed the appeal, said then-Elections Committee Chair Emily Laue had given preferential treatment to the Smoot/Girrens ticket when the committee allowed them to hold a campaign concert in the Lory Student Center Plaza that could have placed them over their campaign's spending limit.
Phillip Camillo, the director of marketing for ASCSU, said the organization didn't expect to have applicants this early because word regarding the openings won't get out until later this week when, he said, student heads will start beefing up advertising and meeting with college leaders across campus.
But Camillo said he hopes the turnout for positions accelerates, as only 25 out of 35 Senate seats are currently filled, and only one out of the three positions for graduate students are filled.
And the turnover at ASCSU is expected to be substantial, with most of the integral figures in the organization moving on to graduate school or minimizing their roles to focus on school next year.
Camillo said duties of senators in the organization are largely ambiguous, which leads to misunderstandings between the Senate and individual colleges at CSU.
"We wanted to revamp the senate recruitment this year to create competition within the election and to fill every seat we can," Camillo said. "I don't think most students realize how important the Senate is and how much stuff they do."
Zane Guilfoyle, the chair of the student government Elections Committee this year, said no information about applicants will be released until March 13 when the application process is over.
Last year's elections saw heavy controversy, when, for the first time in its 102-year history, Taylor Smoot and Quinn Girrens' election to top executive positions was appealed under what a former chief justice called "gross violations" of campaign policy.
Edward Modec, the student who filed the appeal, said then-Elections Committee Chair Emily Laue had given preferential treatment to the Smoot/Girrens ticket when the committee allowed them to hold a campaign concert in the Lory Student Center Plaza that could have placed them over their campaign's spending limit.
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