ASUCD - Slates, Admin Plans

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SLATES
Lead: A soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white, dense metallic element

Slate: A fine-grained metamorphic rock that splits into thin, smooth-surfaced layers.

Conclusion: Lead is not a slate

Focus: A point at which rays of light or other radiation converge or from which they appear to diverge, as after refraction or reflection in an optical system

Conclusion: Focus is even more clearly not a slate.

But seriously...

Slate: A group of candidates for office who agree to support one another during a single election.

Party: A group of persons who work together to field candidates for office in multiple elections, whose members vote in a similar fashion, and that consists of persons that are not candidates for office.

Conclusion: Lead and Focus are NOT as commonly described "slates" in ASUCD politics, but "parties." It is widely known that there are members of either party which have never been political candidates and never expect to be, and nearly every Senate vote is along "party" lines.


Admin Plans
   In the ASUCD Court we've been working on our "Administrative Plan," these last two weeks. In order to formalize the structure of ASUCD units which may only be referenced to in a single line in the bylaws, all ASUCD units are to have Administrative plans, as detailed in Chapter Four of the Government Codes. Basically the point is this: if there is nothing in writing describing the unit, from a legal point of view it has no claim to political existence.
   Neither the office of the ASUCD Advisor or the Student Government Administrative Office has an Admin Plan, nor are they referenced anywhere in any of the binding by-laws or ASUCD Constitution. They are a line in the budget and that is all.
   Increasingly, however, legislation is being written binding existant Units to report to the Advisor and/or SGAO. Reference to them does not equal ordainment for their creation or existence. They are beyond reproach for not doing what anyone might expect of them so long as they don't even have an Admin Plan.

   While Commission Admin Plans are regularly updated, as are a few other types, the last time the main ASUCD Government admin plan was updated was in 1991. It described not a Senate, Presidency, and Court, but an "Executive Council" and "Student Judicial Board / Student Appeals Board."
   Further records on the aforementioned judicial body could not be found, but we did find the Executive Council admin plan sitting there with all the other current admin plans. It was last updated in 1989. According to it "the ASUCD Executive Council consists of a President and Vice President, elected together during Winter quarter, and seven Council Members, three elected in Winter and four in Fall." Vote for your council members everyone?

   The problem with ridiculously obsolete Admin Plans remaining at large is that insomuch as they are not contradicted by more canonical binding bylaws (the Gov't Codes, Standing Rules, or Judicial Codes), or the ASUCD Constitution, they DO have legal weight.

   The above describes certain facts about ASUCD with pertinance to its judicial health. The above does not contain any personal opinions regarding actual or potential cases or parties to cases. The above is not necessarily the product of any actual or potential ASUCD officer.


Picture of the Day

"Onward"
doodled on a test essay prompt during MUN class
© Kris Fricke 2001


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Comments

[obisan69.livejournal.com]

ROTFLMAO =) Excellent points about Lead and Focus not being slates. HOWEVER, I should make the point that while you are using "Lead" in your post, my party's title is actually the acronym "L.E.A.D." I won't argue about Focus, just with them.