All ASUW candidates given a lesson in ethics
April 30, 2001
Clean campaigning should rule this year's ASUW elections, according to UW Regent Dan Evans.
After the candidates for the ASUW president, vice president and Board of Directors (BOD) positions were announced, Evans preached his Golden Rule to guide candidates through the gray areas of campaigning.
"Would what you do be something you'd like someone to do unto you?" he asked.
There are 14 candidates that will consider this question as they run for the seven BOD positions: seniors Ayako Christopher, Jon Lee, John Liang and Rory McLeod, juniors Ken Chen, Rita Gobran, Lindsay Graff, Noah Knodle and Eric Stride, sophomores Josh Kahn, Alex Narvaez and Elizabeth Webber, and freshman Chris Ramsey-Corry.
Last year's slew of election complaints was ever-present in the context of the Election Administration Committee's (EAC) annual ethics seminar Friday; as a more stringent set of campaigning rules was presented to the candidates in this year's ASUW elections.
EAC chair Dustin Osgood read the new rules and the existing ones, section by section, to the candidates.
Former Washington state governor and current regent Dan Evans spoke further to candidates on campaign ethics.
"I've been absolutely astonished in the rapid rise of negative campaigning -- much of it irrational," said Evans.
He stressed that negative campaigns can only be eliminated when voters respond to positive ones.
"That would be a terrific accomplishment," Evans said.
This year, it will be considered a campaign violation to break Federal Communication Commission's phone solicitation laws or to send mass e-mails concerning campaigns to uninterested parties. Additionally, all polling stations will be equipped with hundred-foot measuring tapes to ensure that no one campaigns too close to them.
Changes to this year's campaign policy stem from last year's alleged campaign violations, such as current ASUW President Jasmin Weaver's mass voice mail to dorm residents on behalf of Affordable Tuition Now!
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