2008 Woodie Awards
Jackson not allowed to run for two positions at once
Ryan Boetel
Issue date: 2/26/08 Section: News
The student body elections will be held on March 5. The campaign of one candidate, however, will be over in a few hours.
The Electoral Commission, a group of students and faculty members who monitor the student government campaign, filed a declaratory judgement to University of Nebraska-Lincoln's student court asking the body to rule if Kyle Jackson can run for two positions simultaneously.
Jackson, a junior environmental studies major, wanted to run as a student senator for the Ignite party representing the College of Agricultural Science and for an at-large position on the Committee for Fee Allocation.
On Monday night, the official ruling from the student court - written by student justices Greg Walklin, a second year law student, and Adam Neef, a junior English major - was published. In the ruling the student court said that "ultimately (Jackson's) attempts were not persuasive."
"We interpreted the language as separating the people who hold the different position," said Walklin, the student chief justice of the court. "ASUN members can't hold at-large positions."
The Electoral Commission will meet Tuesday night at 5:30 to strike Jackson's name from one of the positions he is running for.
Jackson said he will run as a senator.
"I'm disappointed," Jackson said. "I still feel that I should be able to run for both positions. But if that's the way the court feels than that's the way it will be."
RYANBOETEL@DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
The Electoral Commission, a group of students and faculty members who monitor the student government campaign, filed a declaratory judgement to University of Nebraska-Lincoln's student court asking the body to rule if Kyle Jackson can run for two positions simultaneously.
Jackson, a junior environmental studies major, wanted to run as a student senator for the Ignite party representing the College of Agricultural Science and for an at-large position on the Committee for Fee Allocation.
On Monday night, the official ruling from the student court - written by student justices Greg Walklin, a second year law student, and Adam Neef, a junior English major - was published. In the ruling the student court said that "ultimately (Jackson's) attempts were not persuasive."
"We interpreted the language as separating the people who hold the different position," said Walklin, the student chief justice of the court. "ASUN members can't hold at-large positions."
The Electoral Commission will meet Tuesday night at 5:30 to strike Jackson's name from one of the positions he is running for.
Jackson said he will run as a senator.
"I'm disappointed," Jackson said. "I still feel that I should be able to run for both positions. But if that's the way the court feels than that's the way it will be."
RYANBOETEL@DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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