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2001 ASUO Elections Coverage

Many will play. Some will win. Nobody will care.

Two short years after the Oregon Commentator swore off the ASUO for good, here we are: legitimately endorsing a ticket for the ASUO Executive Office.

And why, pray tell, are we doing such a thing? How could we have fallen so far? Are we out of our freaking minds?

That is for us to know.

What is for you to know is what the candidates in this election had to say to us, and what we now have to say about them. In the weeks prior to the primary election, we sat down with each of the candidates (who would return our calls) and traded words over a number of issues that matter to us at the Oregon Commentator. Those interviews may be found on the following pages, if you are so inclined.

A note: some readers may note that two candidates, Vice Presidential hopeful Brian Boone and Presidential contestant Sho Ikeda are both employed in various capacities by the Commentator. It would follow that these two candidates received special treatment from the editors who collaborated on the following series of interviews. This is not true. First, the interviews were conducted in exactly the same manner. As for the second reason, well, just read the endorsements.

Another note: Yes, some of the interviewed bought advertisements in this issue. No, that did not matter either. It's sort of like the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes: no purchase is necessary to win.

Are you ready? Can you wait any longer? Is every last ounce of your concentration devoted to refraining from jumping to the end of this section just to see who you should vote for, regardless of the information contained forewith?

Well, don't. You might learn something this way. There's no need to be a total jackass.

Candidates Q&A

And finally...

Our endorsement.