April 16, 2025 - 2025-2026 DASG Election Certification and Complaint Meeting

Call to Order

Luca called the meeting to order at 4:01 PM. 

Roll Call

#	Last	First	Present	Late	Absent	Online	Left Early	Excused
1	Paliska	Luca	X
2	Sharma	Aditya	X
3	Bravo	Katia	X
4	Ozaki	Michi	X
5	Huang	Jin	X
6	Li	Iris	X
7	Abukhater	Rami	X
8	Burkhanova	Dariga	X
9	Chu	Ryan	X
10	Hartono	Lauren	X
11	Kim	Minseo	X
12	Lei	Wadi Lin	X
13	Madrid	Joshua	X
14	Min	Jin Gi	X
15	Nguyen	Van Loc	X
16	Pham	Victor	X
17	Shaikh	Fatima Zehra	X
18	Shamarao	Anish	X
19	Teng	Yan Ming	X
	Estrada-Nakamatsu	Matsuko	X
20	Aklilu	Mahder	X
21	Washington	Lia	X
22	Truong	Nhi			X
23	Yung	Yin Wa			X
24	Krawez	Kyle	X
25	Chang	Tracy	X

Public Comments

• Luca: This meeting may be a bit tense; henna tattoo on my hand. 
• Matsuko: Thank you to those who are here and filed their complaints. Ground rules include being respectful to one another. 
• Public: International students are facing criticism; let's work for the students, the issues are more than us. Please be united. 
• Public: Regarding Election complaint meeting held previously on March 13, 2025 towards Aroush and Kanishka; believes violation took place under the DASG Code of Conduct, Article 3, Section 1 of Section 8. 
• Public: Khari testified against the disqualification of Kavi, a DASG Candidate. 

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Advisor Announcements

• Maritza: We hope this will go smoothly and to be mindful of time. Keep focus on what is being discussed. Regardless of whether you win here, treat everyone you are speaking to as a potential teammate and/or constituents. You are setting up how you represent the student body with how you show up here. 
• Dennis: Hopes the complaint meeting goes smoothly and efficiently. 

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Senate Announcements

• Joshua: The application for the Equity Champion Awards is out; submit nomination by this Friday. 

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Consent Calendar

• Aditya moved to approve, Matsuko seconded the motion, no objections. 

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Business Item 1

DASG Election Complaints

• Luca went over the ground rules and structure for Business Item 1. 
• Question of whether the March 13th meeting information could be used to clarify material within Business item 1. 
• Question of whether candidates within the election complaint can bring in new evidence; confirmed that it is permissible. 
• Decision made to begin with Kavi and Naim's Election complaints. 

Elevate

Complaint by Francesca C

Complaint by Joey Hua 

• Dennis clarified that within the DASG Elections Code, students are encouraged to make classroom presentations. The evidence submitted of the candidate utilizing the classroom whiteboard. 
• Joey provided a brief statement regarding the election complaint submission and the evidence.
• Luca clarified that evidence has to relate to the campaigning period. 
• Question of whether the person shown in the video evidence is present at the meeting. 
• Joey provided a statement on the complaint submitted. 
• Discussion took place on whether to first go though all of the complaints and then discuss openly or to review each complaint one by one. 
• Discussion on whether to include the first two videos should be included given the person in the video is not here in person; should senate consider the videos as part of the complaint or not.
• An unofficial vote took place on whether the videos should be included; majority ruled that the videos should not be considered.
• Candidates that were questioned on the complaint were invited to come up and provide their own response. 
• Arhaam (non candidate) came up to provide a response on the video evidence. 
• Katia mentioned that he 10 minutes per candidate to explain has passed.
  Luca clarified that it applies to each candidate.
• Open discussion took place with the senators.
• Question of where the election flyer was obtained; given that the flyer comes from the two videos that were dismissed, it was ruled to be dismissed as well. 
• Katia recommended to vote on whether or not non candidates should be considered the responsibility of candidates for election campaigns.
• Suggestion to move on to the rest of complaints for added context; majority preferred to remain on the current complaint.
• Joshua: Point of Order-- questions should be directed to the senate.
• Aditya asks if the candidates were aware of Arham campaigning for Elevate.
• Rami motioned to consider all non candidate participants that are campaigning for candidates as an extension of them.
• Katia seconded the motion, no objections.
• Katia motioned to consider all the complaints before deliberating.
• Ryan moved to end discussion.
• Van Loc rose to question of privilege.

Vote to hear all complaints and then deliberate as a senate; Yes - Agrees with motion, No - disagrees with motion
1	Paliska	Luca	-
2	Sharma	Aditya	Yes
3	Bravo	Katia	No
4	Ozaki	Michi	No
5	Huang	Jin	No
6	Li	Iris	No
7	Abukhater	Rami	No
8	Burkhanova	Dariga	No
9	Chu	Ryan	No
10	Hartono	Lauren	No
11	Kim	Minseo	No
12	Lei	Wadi Lin	Yes
13	Madrid	Joshua	No
14	Min	Jin Gi	-
15	Nguyen	Van Loc	No
16	Pham	Victor	No
17	Shaikh	Fatima Zehra	No
18	Shamarao	Anish	No
19	Teng	Yan Ming	Yes
20	Estrada-Nakamatsu	Matsuko	No
21	Aklilu	Mahder	Yes
22	Washington	Lia	No
23	Truong	Nhi	-
24	Yung	Yin Wa	-
25	Krawez	Kyle	Yes
26	Chang	Tracy	Yes
16 - no		6 - yes
Motion passed

• Katia motioned to go through complaints based on jurisdiction.
• Joshua seconded the motion, motion passed.
• Joshua moved to limit Business Item 1 until 8pm.
• Anish seconded the motion.
• Aditya moved to extend time until 8:20pm, motion passed.
• Mähder motioned to extend time by 10 minutes for the deliberation, motion passed.
• Note that it does appear that students have been forcing and/or intimidating students to vote; possible conflict of interest (Aroush and Arhaam are siblings).
• Katia motioned to disqualify the entire Elevate Coalition, motion passed.
• Motion made to approve the runner up senators next week at the next senate meeting, motion passed.

Kavi K and Naim P

• Luca presented the complaint submission form (see agenda).
• Discussion of whether candidates should have a limit to the explanation regarding their case. 
• Unofficial vote took place; each candidate will have 10 minutes to speak on any complaints regarding their case. 

Complaint submitted by Amit Cohen

• Amit Cohen presented the item and provided context of the complaint submission. 
• ICC Chair of Equity (Kaung Lett Yhone) presented the item and provided additional context. 
• Request to redact a PDF file sent by Kavi due to personal information within the file. 
• Kavi presented the item and provided context and an explanation of the complain form. 
• Digamvar spoke via Zoom as a witness for Kavi and Naim Pichori on behalf of the table issue.
• The senate moved on to discussion and/or questions regarding the cases. 
• Joshua requested that Wadi testify and discuss why the Administration Committee decided to disqualify Kavi. 
• Wadi provided a brief overview of the reasoning for disqualification of Kavi as a DASG Candidate. 
• Kyle asked Kavi whether or not he has any affiliation with Health Services as well as if there was anything that would've given Kavi an unfair advantage compared to any other candidate. 
• Kavi stated he had no affiliation with Health Services and did not believe he had an unfair advantage in any way. 
• Dennis clarified that the meeting on March 13, 2025 is being replaced with today's senate meeting in order to review the complaints from scratch with the DASG Senate. 
• Discussion took place on how to proceed with motions. 
• Rami stated that he believes there was no malicious intent on the part of Kavi and does not believe the incident submitted by Amit Cohen would put anyone ahead of others within the election.
• Aditya moved to dismiss the complaint, Katia seconded the motion,  no objections.

Complaint by Yaroslava Klymenko

• The complaint is considered dismissed given that the person who submitted it did not attend the meeting. 
• Mahder suggested that the explanation on behalf of the complaint to be made a public comment at the end of the meeting. 
• Naim asked for a public apology from the person who submitted the complaint. 
• Luca reminded him to be sure to save the statement fot public comments at the end of the meeting. 

Kavi K

• James presented the item.
• Rami inquired whether there was any more proof other than the citation of public information; James confirmed there was no additional information to present.
• Katia motioned to dismiss the complaint, Ryan seconded the motion, no objections.

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Business Item 2

DASG Election Expense Reports

•  Ryan moved to disqualify the candidates that did not submit their expense reports.
• Matsuko seconded the motion, no objections.

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Business Item 3

DASG Election Certification

• Need to start over the election for all other positions; including Chair of Administration, Chair of Events, Chair of ICC, Student Trustee.

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Public Comments 

•  Kunishka, Kavi, Alan, Virginia and Arhaam made public comments. 

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Advisor Announcements

• None

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Adjournment

• Luca adjourned the meeting at 9:04 PM.