Elections Controversy at CU

A week after it was released, an e-memo from the winners of the UCSU elections, the Drive ticket, is still being criticized and could lead to a change in university policy regarding the content of e-memos sent to students.

Last Wednesday the Drive ticket, one of three tickets running in the UCSU election, sent out a student e-memo titled "Urgent: Vote DRIVE for UCSU," urging students to support them in their run for office. The e-memo drew criticism from members of both of the opposition tickets, One and Solidarity. Their criticism centered on a university policy banning e-memos from promoting political viewpoints.


Members of the Drive ticket are maintaining they did nothing wrong and they followed university guidelines when they sent the message.

Drive funded the message through a student group they created called Go. Farivar paid the fee to start the group as well as its fee to send out the e-memo. He also paid to register the drivecu.com Web site, which Go used to send the message.

When asked why he set up the group, Farivar said it was created to pay for expenses for the Drive campaign on campus.

The office of the registrar is responsible for screening e-memos before they are sent to students. The CU registrar, Barbara Todd, said the policy on political content only applies to state or federal politics, not campus elections.

I don't think they did anything wrong...