2A - Friday, October 26, 2012 The Michigan Daily - mchigandaily.cam I MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY :FRIDAY In Other Ivory Towers This Week in History Campus Clubs Professor Profiles Photos of the Week 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 LEFT A young Obama sup- www.michigaridaily.com porter at Vice President Joe JOSEPH LICHTERMAN RACHEL GREINETZ Biden's rally at the University ___Editor in Chief Business Manager of Toledo on Tuesday. (Ruby 734-418-415t ext.1252 734-418-415 ext. 1241 Wallau/Daily) Y2. 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Waxing eloquent WHERE: Mosher-Jordan Residence Hall WHEN: Wednesday at about 2:40 p.m. WHAT: A man with no connection to the Univer- sity tried to sell candles to residents, University Police reported. He was cited for solicitation. Running theft WHERE: Intramural Sports Building WHEN: Wednesday at about 10:25 p.m. WHAT: A necklace was allegedly stolen after being left on a treadmill at about 6 p.m., University Police reported. There are cur- rently no suspects. Bike crash WHERE: 1200 Block of Murfin WHEN: Wednesday at about 8:35 a.m. WHAT: A bicyclist collided with a pedestrian and medi- cal assistance arrived on the scene, University Police reported. The bicyclist did not use emergency trans- port, but did sustain minor WHAT: During the lunch hour, museum staff will give tours of differentgalleries engaging in conversations about the time period and themes. WHO: University of Michi- gan Museum of Art WHEN: Today from 12:15 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. WHERE: University Muse- um of Art Dance show WHAT: The Impact Dance group presents their self- choreographed pieces span- ning the genres of jazz, tap, ballet, modern, hip-hop . and lyrical. The University sponsored group is primar- ily composed of non-dance majors. WHO: Michigan Union Ticket Office WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m. WHERE: Mendelssohn Theatre WHAT: ADHD Awareness Week examineshow to improve emotional well- being. and embrace adult- hood ADHD. WHO: Services for Students with Disabilities WHEN: Today at noon WHERE: Rackham Audi- torium CORRECTIONS t Due to an editing error, an article in the Oct.25 edition of the Michigan Daily ("LSA Prof Ken Mikolowski: West Coast meets Midwest")incor- rectly identified the professor being profiled. The interviewee was Prof. Melanie Schulze- Tanielian, not Prof. Ken Mikolowski. . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. 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University affiliates are subjecitoa reduced subscription rate. On-campussubscriptionsfor fallterm are$35.Subscriptionsmust be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press. 0 6 GOING TO "THE AlIRPORT? CSG From Page 1 ment Compiled Code article on elections is -poorly constructed, containing a number of incoher- ent, ambiguous, contradictory and absurd provisions," he wrote in the decision. Since then, the election code has been struck from the CSG Compiled Code in its entirety, and after a month of revisions, a resolution for a new election code co-authored by nine people was proposed at Tuesday night's CSG assembly meeting. Jeremy Keeney, a Law stu- dent and CSG rules committee chair, and Michael Proppe, a Business junior and assembly speaker, said at the meeting that they hope the proposed election code will prevent the recurrence of similar hearings and intro- duce other beneficial rules for the next major CSG election in March 2013.- The sweeping, 15-page reso- lution addresses several issues that stemmed from the March elections and, unlike the former code, defines abuse of e-mail listservs, coordination between candidates and their support- ers and introduces campaign finance language. In response to confusion during the March hearing con- cerning the definition of owner- ship of University listservs, the proposed election code states that only the owner listed by the MCommunity website may be allowed to send campaign e-mails to a listserv. While the proposed and former election codes punish abuse of listservs with demer- its for every person the e-mail is sent to, the UEC cited "miti- gating factors" in its decision to lower the number of demerits it awarded to Parikh and Hashwi from more than 1,000 to four. Five demerits are needed to disqualify a candidate from the election. The use of mitigating factors was appealed and the case was brought to the CSJ, which could only make a decision based on the mitigating factors outlined by the UEC at that time. While CSJ later found that only two of the 11 mitigating factors were valid, the decision was upheld' based on those factors when the hearing was remanded to the UEC. However, under the proposed election code, "questions of law are reviewed using a de novo standard" by the CSJ, meaning it is required to look at each case as if it is being heard for the first time. "Before, the standard was the UEC had to be clearly wrong, in order for the Central Stu- dent Judiciary to overrule them when they mitigated damages," Keeney said. "Now they just have to be wrong in the CSJ's opinion - in order to be wrong is a lower threshold than to be clearly wrong." Furthermore, the election code would require that an infraction committed by a non- candidate fulfill three compo- nents in order for demerits to be awarded to a candidate. The three components would better define coordination and implied coordination between a candi- date and his or her supporters, an issue that was hotly contest- ed during the March hearing. Aside from changes that are solely reactionary to that hear- ing, the addition of campaign finance laws to the election code would have required additional paperwork by each campaign. According to the proposed regulation, presidential cam- paigns cannot spend more than $1,000 toward their campaign and parties can only spend an additional $50 for each leg- islative candidate running with their party. This would have limited, for instance, the amount of spendable funds for Parikh and Hashwi's campaign last spring to $1,000, but would have allowed MForward to spend $2,700 because it had a presidential ticket and 34 legis- lative candidates. Moreover, only students would be able to donate to cam- paigns, and those donations would be limited to $25 for each legislative campaign and $100 for presidential tickets. Under these rules, a single student could have donated a total of $950 to MForward's campaign last year. All spending and donations would have to be reported to the UEC before the polls open through forms described in the proposed resolution. Those forms would then be made pub- lic online within 24 hours after they are submitted to the UEC. Furthermore, any campaign funds not spentby the end of the election -must be "reported to the UEC, must be donated to the (Student Organization Fund- ing Commission), a University of Michigan sponsored scholar- ship fund, or a 501(c)(3) char- ity of the candidate's choice" within one week of the election results. The resolution, however, does not define the difference between the general funds a party owns and funds specifi- cally allocated to campaigning. "I guess under the current language, my understanding of this would be campaign funds is money spent duringthe election period on the election," Proppe said. "I think that's a really good point that we need to clarify though." Similarly, the resolution has no language to prevent laun- dering of campaign donations through other students by non-" students, or those who have maxed out their donations. "There's actually no way to track that," Keeney said. Lastly, the resolution lacks language that indicates if money donated to a party for a legisla- tive candidate must be spent specifically on that candidate or if that moneycanbe spent onthe presidential campaign or other legislative candidates. Violation of rules regard- ing campaign finance would be regarded as a major infraction under the proposed resolution and would be punishable by two to four demerits. While the addition of finan- cial regulations adds a multitude of ways students can violate the election code, Proppe said the benefit of the legislation out- weighs potential hearings that could stem from it. "I don't think it's good to eliminate good rules because we're afraid they'll be broken," Proppe said. Keeney added that the new code also levels the playing field of campaigns. "The overall purpose of this is to increase transparency as to how much people are spending and to make it fair so that some- one who comes from a rich fam- ily doesn't automatically have an advantage," he said. "I feel like this is a good, at least, first step toward that." Endorsements made by CSG members, another issue dur- ing the March election, are also addressed by the resolution. "Neither the Assembly nor any of its committees, commis- sions, select committees, UEC, University Elections Judiciary, nor Election Director shall endorse any candidate in any election," the proposed election code reads. This stipulation would have come into effect last year when Michael Budros, then a vice- chair of SOFC, wrote a view- point in The Michigan Daily endorsing Business junior Shreya Singh for president and signed the viewpoint with his full title. The amount of demer- its that could be issued for this infraction is unclear because it's not listed in the minor, major or egregious infractions sections of the proposed election code. The idea of preventing mem- bers of CSG from publicly endorsing candidates was origi- nally discussed in April follow- ing the election, but a resolution with language similar to that of the proposed election code was voted down. The proposed election code however, added that "as indi- viduals, members of CSG may endorse the candidacy of any candidate in any election." Finally, a rule that restrict- ed a party from capitalizing more than the first letter of its name was absent from the pro- posed resolution. youMICH, MForward and OurMichigan could all have been pressed for one demerit under this rule, although no party filed a com- plaint. The resolution will be dis- cussed and further tabled at Sunday's rules committee meet- ing. It will require a majority of support from the assembly, as it changes only the compiled code of CSG - not its constitution or operating procedures, both of which require a two-thirds majority. 1*4