Innocent until proven guilty! Monica Pen disqualified from her win in the election for De Anza Student Body President for wearing a lanyard with her name and her running mates name handwritten on it. Last week Pen appealed the decision of her disqualification and was turned down. Supposedly she was campaigning too close to the poles. The rule is that you can’t campaign with in 50 feet of the poles. It has been brought up that she was 8 feet outside of the borders making her distance 58 feet away from the poles. My opinion is that if she was indeed 8 feet beyond the limit more actions should be taken in order to prove if she deserved a 2nd chance. In last weeks DASB Senate meting the feeling was as if they had already made their choice. And that was that there would be no 2nd chance. And also that the student’s vote didn’t matter. All that counted was that she broke a rule. She broke the rule by wearing a nametag. Yeah wearing a name tag now that’s a hug campaigning strategy! One of the best ones I ever heard of. I bet if I throw on a lanyard with my name on it a few hundred students will go out and vote for me! Yeah right not that easy.The main point is that the Senate was making was that she campaigned too close to the poles! But why did it come up in the Senate meeting that she was actually 58 feet away from the poles at her alleged campaigning mistake? And if this was indeed true why wasn’t it proven guilty? In a interview with Pen she told me “I still feel that the decision was not based on sufficient evidence,’ and from my assumptions I feel that this was true also that yes the decision was unjust and unfair and some more actions should have taken place to prove her innocent or guilty.