By Esteban Ramirez

Sports Editor

At the beginning of the weekly Associated Students Inc. meeting on Friday, April 24, the director of legislative affairs, Mercedes Macias, accused some of her fellow executive board members on ASI of secretly trying to vote Ricardo Perez, vice-president of external affairs, off of the board.

“There have been a lot of rumors spread, and that’s not fair for anyone involved,” Macias said during the meeting. “I had to hear from other schools [California State Students Association] that there were exact vote counts of who was going to vote Ricky out before we even discussed it on our board. We were at a school function, and we had to hear about it outside of this organization. I don’t think that’s right. I think that’s unethical. I think there’s some serious abuse of authority.”

Macias and Perez were not available to comment on the issue.

The Runner will be looking into past meeting minutes and continue to research this issue.

Stotler said after the meeting that this is an issue they are dealing with right now, but that it shouldn’t have been addressed at that moment.

“She brought up some things that we are working with internally,” Stotler said. “I don’t think it was the appropriate time to bring those concerns up, and I’m not going to get into the details of it. I’m glad she voiced her opinions, but I think there is a more appropriate manner to do so.”