Campaigning
Campaign Period: March 14th - April 5th
Campaign Violations
Misuse of posters and signs including using permanent adhesive, placing them in unauthorized locations, sabotage, damaging, or removing opposing posters or signs.
Making defamatory or libelous statements.
Use of student government space, offices, or other facilities, for storage of campaign materials. For purposes of this section, Student Government shall be defined as the entire office space located on the third floor of the Student Center and all facilities therein.
Use of any of the following college owned equipment: Copying machines and printers not publicly available to all students, including printers in the library and library cafe and machines from clubs and offices.
Use of mailing lists provided by a Brooklyn College administrative office or via Blackboard.
Disturbing or distracting any regularly established Brooklyn College activities or programs such as regularly scheduled classes and extracurricular programs on or off campus.
Threatening, harassing, or assaulting any of the candidates or members of student government.
Campaign Sanctions
Sanctions available and are explicitly limited to:
Removal or Deletion of Materials. Commissioners are required to immediately remove any advertising that is not placed in an authorized area;
Temporary Suspension of Campaign Activities. Should a candidate or referendum campaign be suspended, all of its operations must cease. The suspended campaign, including campaign staff, may not campaign for or against any campaign in the race.
Candidates or Sponsors of a campaign that has been suspended, may still campaign for or against candidates or campaigns.
Candidate Disqualification and removal from the ballot.
Revocation of candidacy and forfeiture of office. If the offender won election when the violation occurred, the votes for that office shall be retallied with the votes in favor of the disqualified candidate allocated to the voters next choice.
Loss of eligibility. Permanent loss of eligibility from holding any student government office, elected and appointed. The offender shall have the right to apply for eligibility to participate in Student Government one (1) year after sanction; and upon being denied may reapply for said eligibility on a yearly basis. Each application will be at the discretion of the Commissioner.
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For more detailed guidelines on where to post your campaigns, please visit the website linked below.
https://www.brooklyn.edu/dosa/special-projects/beautification/