October 30, 2009
by Stephanie Rodriguez | Print Editor In Chief
Results of a recall election of Associated Student Government President Steve Macias and Student Affairs Commissioner Monica Guzman won’t be known until next week at the soonest, campus officials said on Friday.
City College Vice President Debby Dixon called the results “inconclusive,” adding that “we will know more on Monday.”
Dixon made the announcement on behalf of ASG and Student Leadership and Development Advisor Lee Weathers-Miguel.
Balloting took place on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Far left of the voting booth, Macias and members of the Sac City Coalition of Free Speech along with representatives from the Tea Party Patriots organization set up camp.
“I have to make it clear, today’s recall is not about abortion,” Macias explains. “Today’s issue is free speech, two groups on campus are trying to limit what is displayed on a college campus. They’re trying to say these things are unacceptable from our point of view so you can’t say them at all and if you want to say them, we’re going to kick you out of office, and that’s wrong; and that’s why this recall is a joke.”
Members of the Queer Straight Alliance club on campus had set up a table to the far right side of the voting station where they handed out flyers to passing students encouraging them to vote and hear both sides of the controversy.
Waiting in line to vote along with her puppy, City College History major Ashley Valdez expressed why she felt the need to place her vote in the recall election.
“It’s not about the abortion display, everything developed from there,” Valdez explains. “It’s mostly about him [Macias] not doing his job, I’m voting yes on the recall. Ideals will change; people will be more educated on what this is about.”
Standing by the Queer Straight Alliance table, a teary-eyed La Donya Reed, City College’s ASG Inter-Club Council, gives her opinion.
“When you lie to the board and deceit the board, that’s a separate issue,” Reed explains speaking of Macias. “You’ve generated all this energy for yourself, we could have been doing something else for the good of the students, and we are all focused on him.”
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Before I make this statement, I would like to say this is LaDonya Reed, the Sac City Student, speaking not LaDonya Reed, ASG, ICC President. I am making this statement on behalf of myself, not the SCC ASG.
I would like to say to all of the SCC students, that no matter what they might have heard, the recall election was not because of censorship or free speech but for the following not following procedures,protocol, and the ASG Constitution and Bylaws.
For those of you that do not know anything about the ASG Constitution and Bylaws, I suggest you visit this website http://web.scc.losrios.edu/asg/.
The ASG has had maybe 2 or 3 official meetings. Meetings are deemed unofficial if they are not posted 72 hours in advance. So image that you wanted to be apart of SCC ASG, because you wanted to make changes on the campus and make a difference for the entire student body, but everything you wanted to do does not get done simply because the agenda is not posted. Not posting the agenda is a violation of the Brown Act.
Although the posting of the agenda stops most of the boards duties to the student population, ASG members have been going above and beyond to do their job duties.
I feel that if Steve Macias, was truly here to support the student body, why hasn’t he addressed student concerns and issues when they come into our office? Why hasn’t he made an apology to those students that were harrassed and/or threatened when the GAP group and the group of people who helped distribute his no to recall flyers? Where is he now? Why was no agenda posted again for the ASG meeting that is supposed to take place this week? These reasons and many more are why students called for the recall of Macias.
I would like to apologize to my fellow SCC Students, faculty, staff, for all the turmoil that our campus is experiencing.
I would personally like to thank my fellow ASG board members and other SCC students, faculty, staff for all their hard work and patience and continuing to do their job throughout this ordeal.
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