Nick Hudson Resigns as ASUO Finance Coordinator
Just a few minutes ago I was handed an envelope containing Nick Hudson’s resignation from the ASUO. In it, Hudson criticizes the current state of the ASUO:
The ASUO is all about advocating for your own special interests, not what is best of the entire student population. The ASUO Executive was successful in quashing OSPIRG’s gratuitous and wanton request of a position that had no intention of benefiting the student population. Furthermore, specific individuals within the ASUO continuously advocate for their particular interests, rather than what it best for everyone. As you may well be aware, the EMU Board is discussing moving the Leadership Resource Office to the arcade space, simply because the Survival Center does not want to move. The Survival Center states that it has a history where it is at. Well, the LRO does as well. Moreover, more students need and want leadership training. By expanding the LRO into a place that is more open to the entire student body, instead of in a dark corner with no visibility, leadership will expand on campus. Instead, personal aggrandizement and politics have played a role in this debate. The Survival Center has won simply because individuals on the EMU Board, deciding whether or not to move the LRO, have not recused themselves from the debate even though they are members of the Survival Center or the groups located in that office space. If this is not a violation of students trust to do what is necessary and right, then I don’t know what is.
Indeed.
In short, the ASUO is full of incompetent individuals who just want to benefit themselves or their particular group. They will frivolously spend your hard earned dollars, while doing nothing to benefit your lives.
He also touches on the elections and his girlfriend Amy DuFour’s recent resignation:
Personal character attacks run rampant in the ASUO. The most recent of which was against Amy DuFour. Although I am tied to her, I believe someone must state something for the record. She had a minor in PPPM. She was representing the AAA department as required under the constitution. She was forced to resign because of political reasons. Jared Axelrod and Stephanie Erickson forced Amy to resign because “she was not representing her constituency”. My question is this: Who are they to determine that she was not representing her constituency? She was approved to run in the Spring by the ASUO Elections Board AND in the fall by ASUO President Adam Walsh. She had served the Student Senate and her constituency with the most up most grace, diligence and honor, which can not be said for other senators. The particular minor in question is represented by no one. If you are part of a department, either through major or minor, you should be able to run and serve that constituency.
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Had Amy had been confronted with this before, she would have resigned then. Instead, they waited until election season to create a story. These individuals never removed Tyrel Love when he was sleeping during senate meetings, nor Jessica Nair who never showed up to meetings during her last few months as senator. Nor have they taken any action against the missed meetings of Senator Brown.
Near the end, he addresses Walsh and Coy directly:
A word of wisdom to Adam and Kyla:
Do something that will actually benefit students. Know what you are doing and why it is important. Do your research before Senate in order to not look like an idiot. Stand your principles. Stand against the Conduct Code provisions because they will hurt all students. Don’t listen to the psycho-babble bullshit the Ad Hoc Committee is giving to the campus community and don’t stand for it. Take a charge against it immediately. Recruit people to go to the meetings where it is discussed and tell administrators that the changes will hurt students. I have lost my faith in your ability to truly lead this campus. People are taking over student government in a pseudo coup-de-tat. They are controlling you and you don’t even realize it. Don’t stand for bullshit from staff and certainly not from senators. While I am grateful for helping you out, I feel as if it was a waste. The promise I was bought into with my vote as been broken.
Quite frankly, I’m shocked. More to come soon, I’m sure. Note that quotes are direct and without any modification.
