Friday, March 19, 2010
Still pending, three years later
Another ASUN Election has passed, and a constitutional amendment ratified by the students an eternity ago (three years) is still pending. This has been well discussed in this space before. Since the previous posts have been getting some traffic lately, perhaps someone has noticed this somewhat important oversight.
Previous posts:
What Constitutional Amendment?
Oh, That Constititonal Amendment
Another BoR meeting, constitutional amendment still pending
Since the amendment was ratified back in 2008, the Regents have enacted a policy delegating the approval power over student government constitutions to the Chancellor. See section 1.3.6 of Chapter 1, Title 2, Board of Regents Handbook. Thus, the Regents do not have to approve the amendment, but the amendment still must be formally transmitted to the university president, and ASUN law is explicit about whose duty that is.
Once again, in hopes of making this all so utterly easy a caveman could do it, below is a specimen certificate, updated for current Election Commission Chairman Jeremiah Todd. All he needs to do--literally--is print out the certificate the number of times required under ASUN law, sign them, and send to them to the required recipients.
I have to say, I'm hard pressed to think of anything more embarassing to anyone ever involved in ASUN, the administrative faculty included, than letting the people's votes go ignored, particularly on something so important.
Specimen Certificate to UNR President on ASUN Constitutional Amendment_rev 2010-03-19
Please, someone, anyone, fix this so I can stop writing about it.
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