<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Xavier,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
This message is ridiculous. There's no other way to say it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I see that you have 2 legitimate complaints, and I will talk to those now.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The first round of voting had flaws - but most have been fixed, either for future or retroactively to validate the results</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
There have been problems with alerting campus to the internal workings of CB/SG</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
You haven't been to meetings. You don't know what is going on. We have solved essentially every other problem. The HSU is at the opposite of failure point - it gets stronger every day. That you would assume you know what is going on and call for dissolution and reformation as absurd. Oct 11, HYPE, and voting are all being addressed and resolved currently and internally</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">You're deadline of Tuesday is also unreasonable - we met last night, you did not come. We do not have another public meeting until Thursday. Don't put deadlines between meetings.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">If you want to participate in out FUNCTIONING system, do so. Do not make demands because you have a pet peeve or complaints based on gossip.</div>
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</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Respectfully,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
Ethan Warshow, At-Large Member of the Coordinating Board of the HSU.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div>
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:20:05 -0400<br>
From: <a href="mailto:xat12@hampshire.edu" target="_blank">xat12@hampshire.edu</a><br>
Subject: HSU Failing - Broken Voting System and What's Next<br>
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Dear HSU groups, Re-Rad Signers, people who I believe care about the structure and all of us involved in this,<br>
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I opened my e-mail today to see the results of the Town Meeting voting, and I am appalled at the fact that the elections were allowed to continue. As many of you may be fully aware of, the voting system was unarguably broken. Fraudulent elections are invalid elections.<br>
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If you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's my summary. After leaving Coordinating Board, I heard rumors on how if you logged in through a private browser, you could vote through our Qualtrics elections multiple times. Then I heard that I shouldn't worry, because it got handled. So, I waited until yesterday night to test this. I managed to vote 2 additional times using Firefox private browser for Town Meeting. This is not okay. Regardless if you managed to see what votes were 'invalid', it is Unacceptable that these elections go through.<br>
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Adding to this voting fiasco, the way HSU handled the Hype Committee crisis this week was far from okay; I have yet to read/hear any official response. Not to mention taking no stance with the regards to the Prescott substance incident. And I have still to really see an attempt at advertising for more members.<br>
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It's obvious that the system is failing. Town Meeting's First Elections, the CENTER of the system, failed. 3 members have dropped out of CoordBoard, to of 2 having been deeply involved in restructuring process last year. Scope Groups are STILL lacking membership. Not to mention the fact that we NEVER addressed the question of an inclusive governance structure; we talked about having seats assigned to certain student identities on campus, but never got to it. And we never concluded on the stipend question. No one is comfortable with what's going on and frustration is everywhere. I am sure that the system is heading to shutdown (yes, I used the 's' word) if we don't act soon.<br>
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So, here's what I propose. First, SOMEONE needs to apologize and re-run the elections. I care about our image and credibility, but if this doesn't happen, trust me, I will flip tables and it will be worse. I cannot allow, as a Hampshire student and someone involved in HSU, for such important decisions to be made like this. I'll wait until next Tuesday before taking any action.<br>
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Then, we need to get together (everyone who wants to see this thing work again as well as students who might want to get involved still) check-in and improve. Make decisions about our structure and fix it. I don't want to say that HSU has fallen, but I really think that it's at tipping point right now. It's okay that this happened. When we were making this thing last year, we *knew* that it was a pilot, and that it might collapse and explode. So yes, now to pick up the pieces.<br>
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But I don't know how to go about doing this. I'd have no problem in running this HSU revisiting thing, but I don't feel empowered to do so. Perhaps it should be handled by the Accountability body (formerly Committee of 10) with the approval of Coordinating Board.<br>
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Sending positive energy,<br>
Xavier A. Torres de Janon<br>
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