The Squelch! Party/Elections Council Brouhaha was more or less resolved last night. The forum regulations were revised pretty quickly into the conversation, and it was agreed that the only things not permitted would be 'libel, slander, and 'hate speech.'' There's supposed to be an e-mail sent out to clarify the rules.

More controversial was two of our Voter's Guide statements. Some of the EC didn't want to publish 1. Matt Holohan's statement and 2. David Duman's statement.

Matt's statement just repeated the word 'fuck' some 80 times, in order to tee off the Elections Council after they urged us not use vulgarities at the Candidate's Meeting. We agreed that it was legal fairly early.

The biggest contention was actually Dave's, since he threw in the word 'c*n*' at the end of his statement for kicks. For some reason the EC thought there was a statement something like 'All Women are Cunts.' Here's the actual one:

As your External Affairs Vice-President, I’ll continue the proud tradition of past EAVPs. I’ll continue our effective lobbying efforts in Sacramento, which prevented student fee increases. I’ll continue spending your student fee monies on relevant activities like paying for students to fly out and stand around the Supreme Court building having a circle-jerk. And I’ll continue making sure that all our affairs as a student government stay external. All of them. So you best start buying yourself some long johns with the trapdoor backside. Things’re going to get messy fast. My girl likes to party all the time (repeat). Cunt.

There was an argument that this might be 'hate speech' or whatever. I'm fairly sure the EC would need an order from the J-Council to legally not-print this, but they called late last night and said it was fine. So, our plans to file for an injunction and run an op-ed in the Daily Cal are put off.

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