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PSG votes to remove bill
about student elections
By Kurt Esposito
Assistant
Campus Editor
The Student Senate voted to table indefinitely
a bill that would have changed the support of candidates in student
elections.
In what was its last meeting the temporary senate
decided it would be pointless to vote on the bill because campaigning
for Purdue's first campus-wide Student Senate election began earlier
that day. Adam Thomas, PSG senator, said it would be confusing to start
campaigning and then introduce new campaigning rules the next day.
If it had passed, the bill would have given student
organizations outside Purdue Student Government more freedom in endorsing
candidates and financially supporting campaigns. The bill will not be
brought up for discussion again unless a senator re-introduces it.
Voting for the elections begins Monday and ends
Wednesday. Only three academic schools have races for the two available
seats. Other schools have two or less. In the next couple of weeks PSG
will form a committee to look at how this election was conducted. Matt
Newton, student body vice president, said the issues the committee will
look at include: the lack of candidates, financing for the candidates
and the way students petition to run for a seat.
He said they did not know what kind of turnout
this election was going to have because of the restructured organization
and the lack of student awareness about it. "We're trying to use this
(election) to work out what kinks we've found along the way," he said.
The temporary senators had been in place since
April when PSG restructured following a referendum passed by student
vote. The term of the senators voted upon next week will run until next
April when senate elections will again occur. After that, senate elections
will occur annually in April.
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