PSG coalition votes to relegate
president
Leader disagrees with
decision, says vote
doesn't count
By Kurt Esposito
Assistant
Campus Editor
The president of the Purdue Off-Campus Student
Coalition has been removed from his position in the Purdue Student Government.
Rick Ridenour, former president of the coalition,
was removed from office Monday night when the executive board voted
to relegate him from his status to that of a regular PSG member.
Carina Atherton-Lira, president of the coalition,
said, "We just wanted to get him out. He embarrassed us too many times."
She said the members of the coalition voted to
relegate him because he has had an ineffective term as president and
has run the coalition as an autocracy, removing many of the members
and preventing many positive events from happening.
Ridenour said the vote does not count because there
were not enough members of the executive board at the meeting. He said
the constitution explicitly states that in order for such a vote to
count, at least two thirds of the executive board must be present. He
said only two out of the four members were present.
"It wasn't a meeting," he said. "They have to follow
proper procedures. They don't know how to read the constitution. It's
a shame."
Atherton-Lira said they did have quorum and they
did vote to remove him from the president position.
Atherton-Lira, who was the coalition's vice president,
will assume the duties of the president.
She said the members of the coalition want to do
something positive during the last six weeks of the semester and this
will enable them to do it.
The coalition represents the 20,000 students that
live off campus and has 19 seats in the Purdue Student Government Senate.
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