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Council votes to remove '08 senator
Senior class president appoints replacement
Issue date: 2/14/08
The senior class council has voted to remove one of its members following allegations that he failed to do his job despite repeated warnings from his peers.
The general Student Council voted in favor of a measure by the senior class to impeach Derrick Kuan, senator for COLA [Council on Leadership Appointment]. This represents one of only two such events in the last two years.
"We had talked to him last semester about his conduct," senior class President Natasha Singh said. "We made the decision that he wasn't changing. He had a good two to three months to perform his duties and he didn't."
Although Kuan admitted that he made little effort to defend himself, he claimed that the Council was "overreacting. They thought I wasn't doing my job on the senior class council, which doesn't make any sense," he said. Kuan said that the council charged that he did not attend mandatory meetings, and that he interrupted ones that he did attend. He holds that all of his absences had legitimate excuses.
"It wasn't anything personal," Singh said. "We were just more efficient without him than with him."
The majority of the proceedings was carried out in closed council. Members of the senior class council were reluctant to discuss the issue - citing its lack of importance in the
greater scope of what they are doing.
"It's sad that we had to lose a member of the Council, but I have faith in the senior class decision. We have to respect that and respect the process. It's unfortunate that it happened, but it's sort of the reality. The Council depends on one another," executive board President Scott Bierbryer said.
The process for finding a replacement for Kuan was swift. The current Student Council constitution mandates only that the respective class council president appoint a replacement to fill the empty position.
In the past, most councils chose to undertake an open application process before appointing a new member, but Bierbryer is allowing the council to forego this process, according to Singh.
The general Student Council voted in favor of a measure by the senior class to impeach Derrick Kuan, senator for COLA [Council on Leadership Appointment]. This represents one of only two such events in the last two years.
"We had talked to him last semester about his conduct," senior class President Natasha Singh said. "We made the decision that he wasn't changing. He had a good two to three months to perform his duties and he didn't."
Although Kuan admitted that he made little effort to defend himself, he claimed that the Council was "overreacting. They thought I wasn't doing my job on the senior class council, which doesn't make any sense," he said. Kuan said that the council charged that he did not attend mandatory meetings, and that he interrupted ones that he did attend. He holds that all of his absences had legitimate excuses.
"It wasn't anything personal," Singh said. "We were just more efficient without him than with him."
The majority of the proceedings was carried out in closed council. Members of the senior class council were reluctant to discuss the issue - citing its lack of importance in the
greater scope of what they are doing.
"It's sad that we had to lose a member of the Council, but I have faith in the senior class decision. We have to respect that and respect the process. It's unfortunate that it happened, but it's sort of the reality. The Council depends on one another," executive board President Scott Bierbryer said.
The process for finding a replacement for Kuan was swift. The current Student Council constitution mandates only that the respective class council president appoint a replacement to fill the empty position.
In the past, most councils chose to undertake an open application process before appointing a new member, but Bierbryer is allowing the council to forego this process, according to Singh.
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