ASUP elections force run-off for most positions
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Kelsey Thomas
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In an unusually contested
election, all executive ASUP
election positions except for
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director have gone to run-offs, four
resolutions were passed and 47.4
percent of all eligible voters voted.
According to ASUP secretary
Julia Balisteri, this is the first
presidential candidate run-off since
2008 and the first time there were
three positions with run-offs in
recent memory. The online vote
will take place April 2 and 3. For
the election to be legitimate, 10
percent of the student body must
vote and at least 50 percent plus one
vote is needed to win.
The top two presidential tickets
are Quinten Chadwick (president)
and Elvia Gaona (V.P.), and
John Julius Muwulya (president)
and Andrew Bosomworth
(V.P.), garnering 23.6 percent
and 20.0 percent of the vote,
respectively.
The final treasurer candidates
are Jesse Robinson and Lane Ryan,
with 49 percent and 28.4 percent of
the vote, respectively.
Although only two candidates
ran for secretary, Kaile Erhart
and Alysse Thomas, there were
enough write-in votes to cause a
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Presidential face-off: Candidates John Julius Muwulya and Andrew Bosomworth (left), both sophomores,
are up against Quinten Chadwick and Elvia Gaona (right), also sophomores. Every ASUP executive
board spot except the
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director position will be voted on in a run-off election April 2 - 3.
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The Senate proposes two resolutions to address the Nondiscrimination Policy and issue of exclusion
Kathryn Walters
Staff Writer
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After years of staying quiet
on the issue of discrimination, in
the last two weeks ASUP Senate
has proposed two resolutions
to address inclusion and the
Nondiscrimination Policy at UP.
Resolution 13-06 recommends
adding sexual orientation
and gender identity to the
Nondiscrimination Policy, while
Resolution 13-10 would create an
Office of Inclusion, where a group
of gained faculty and staff would
be a resource for minority students
who feel discriminated against
or excluded. Both resolutions are
dependent on a passing vote in
ASUP and the approval of the
administration.
ASUP President Brock
Vasconcellos said the Senate’s
willingness to tackle these issues is
exceptional.
“I think that it speaks a lot to
the way students have started to
perceive ASUP,” he said. “There’s
a new level of legitimacy with it that
the Senate and ASUP is an effective
tool to bring about change.”
These resolutions are a
development in the ongoing
discussion about UP’s
Nondiscrimination Policy, which
does not include sexual orientation
or gender identity. After University
President Fr. Bill Beauchamp’s
remarks at the annual Fireside Chat
Feb. 18 about faculty in same sex
relationships on campus, a student-
run campaign, Redefine Purple
Pride, emerged.
Redefine Purple Pride set up an
online petition and demonstrated
around campus on Feb. 28 to compel
the administration to change
the Nondiscrimination Policy to
include sexual orientation and
gender identity. As of Tuesday, the
petition had over 1,700 signatures.
"By them saying , 'We as
ASUP want this to happen
and we feel that this would
be best for all students
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that's huge."
Shanay Healy
senior
Some faculty members have also
taken a stand for nondiscrimination.
According to philosophy
professor Andrew Eshleman,
a letter was sent to the Ad Hoc
Presidential Advisory Committee
on Inclusion recommending that
sexual orientation be added to
the Nondiscrimination Policy.
As of Tuesday, the letter had 55
signatures, mostly from senior
faculty.
Revising the policy
Senator Elvia Gaona said she
was inspired to write Resolution
13-06 after reading about
students’ concerns about the
Nondiscrimination Policy in a
report.
“One of the main things I
remember it saying was that
ASUP is pretending that this isn’t
happening and it’s ignoring it,
which we were,” she said. “And I
think a lot of people in the Senate
may have had difficulty bringing it
out to Senate.”
The resolution asks the
administration to “add sexual
orientation and gender identity in
the nondiscrimination policy of the
University of Portland for students,
faculty and staff.”
Before voting on the resolution,
the Senate wants to know the
legal ramifications of changing
the Nondiscrimination Policy. At
Monday’s ASUP meeting, Vice
President Kyle Hamm proposed
an extra Senate meeting in the
near future to hear from one of the
administration’s legal experts, like
Fr. Gerry Olinger, vice president
for Student Affairs, or Danielle
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Senator Derek Block proposes Reso¬
lution 13-10. The resolution asks for
an Office of Inclusion.
Hermanny, executive assistant to
the president, about what a change
to the Nondiscrimination Policy
would mean.
See ASUP, page 3
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