Accusations Fly At Concordia Polls

Students leave Concordia's Hall Building in Montreal Friday March, 06, 2009. The Concordia Student Union has had problems recently with in fighting, name calling, and financially draining problems. Photograph by: Tyrel Featherstone, The Gazette

From The Montreal Gazette:

MONTREAL - Voting for the next executive of the Concordia Student Union has barely begun, but accusations of foul play and dirty dealing are already in full swing.

Concordia University’s 30,000 undergraduate students have until Thursday night to choose who they want to run their student government, which has the unenviable job of restoring the CSU’s credibility and financial health.

Yet even before balloting began Tuesday, supporters of the two main factions, CHANGE and Vision, were trading charges of wrongdoing and electoral game-playing.

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