ASUN committee rejects programming nomination
Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
Student body President Eli Reilly may have to find a new nominee for the director of programming after the senate committee on appointments did not recommend Casey Stiteler for the position Tuesday night.
The committee reported Stiteler unfavorably after discussing doubts about him not having ASUN experience, turning in his application late and not being ready for the position.
The senate can’t discuss Stiteler’s appointment unless it has a two-thirds vote to consider him for director of programming next week. If the committee would have reported Stiteler favorably, the senate would simply approve or disapprove him as director of programming.
“I am going to do everything I can to get as involved as I can,” said Stiteler, who plans to apply to be a programmer if the full senate does not approve him as director.
At the meeting Reilly said he was concerned that he would not be able to quickly find another nominee. He said he would either have to ask someone to take the job who was already denied or open more applications, both which would likely not give the senate enough time to approve his nominee before school ends.
Without a nominee for director of programming before summer, the director would miss the Associated Students of the University of Nevada retreat and be delayed in planning for next year’s events.
The committee reported the following nominees to senate favorably: Jason Entsminger for director of clubs and organizations, Trevor Hartzell for chief of staff and Gabe Matute for director of diversity.
Meghan Wagonseller for director of public relations and Lindsey Sanford for attorney general were not at the meeting, so the committee did not discuss the nominees.
Director of Homecoming Brita Muller is already in office because she was appointed by the last senate session. She had charges against her for performing duties before taking the oath of office, but they were dropped after she took the oath Tuesday.
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April 29th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
“Director of Homecoming Brita Muller is already in office because she was appointed by the last senate session. She had charges against her for performing duties before taking the oath of office, but they were dropped after she took the oath Tuesday.”
Unbelieveable…its hard enough to find someone who wants to do any job within the ASUN, so when who actually wants the job and starts already doing work for it, someone in the Senate has charges brought against her.
REALLY SENATORS!?! Instead of doing something constructive with your time, you decided to bring charges and then only drop then a week later. Just completly insane, I could make better decisions and I don’t even have a brain.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Scarecrow, you should have said, REALLY SENATOR!?! (without the ‘S’). I know it’s easy to blame an entire branch for a disagreement with one person who isn’t even a Senator any more, but your bias is showing.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Scarecrow,
To clear up any misunderstandings, I filed the suit against Ms. Muller for one very simple reason: she was engaging in official duties and actions without taking the constitutionally mandated oath *before* entering office. “The…members of the
executive…of this government, before entering into office, shall take an oath to support this Constitution.” Art. I, sec. 2(a). Don’t believe me? Look it up. http://www.nevadawiki.org/ASUN_Constitution
https://asun.unr.edu/Docs/OrganizationalDocument/Constitution%20of%20the%20Associated%20Students%202007-public%20print-bor_new%20logo.pdf
Her nomination was confirmed by the Senate more than a month ago. In fact, I voted to confirm her. However, she never took her oath of office, which is a condition on exercising the office to which she was appointed.
Fortunately, last week we were able to get an ASUN Justice to swear her in, thereby defeating my cause of action. As such, I accordingly dropped my case.
The fact that it took my suit to finally get her sworn in is silly, I’ll grant you that, but it is also just another symptom of a systemic problem: the inability to take the Constitution and the laws seriously.
Did I want to file a case against her? No. But when a month goes by with no change in the behavior, with no attempt to correct the problem, action needed to be taken. I will repeat what I told Ms. Muller: I have nothing against her (as my vote to confirm her attests), but everybody has to follow the rules.
April 30th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
This situation speaks to President Reilly’s original selection panel’s inability to find and/or choose a qualified nominee for the Director of Programming.
The Senate should not be faulted for having high standards for ASUN Executive Appointees.
Judging someone qualified because of an impending deadline is illogical and ultimately a disservice to the student body.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Quoting from Sean McDonald’s comment:
>>Fortunately, last week we were able to get an ASUN Justice to swear her in, thereby defeating my cause of action. As such, I accordingly dropped my case.
Weren’t there three cases filed, though? Were the other two dropped as well?
May 1st, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Sally,
You are correct: I filed three cases. Two are still pending. Now that Mr. Entsminger has been confirmed as Director of Clubs and Organizations, my cause of action in that case (at least one cause of action) is probably moot. However, I have yet to hear from the Judicial Council as to when they are calendaring the case for argument.