On March 7, the first day of the two-day student elections, candidate Brandon D'Angelo, through his campaign manager, sent out a mass e-mail to more than 4,200 UA students.

The e-mail detailed the administrative vice-president candidate's campus involvement, his desires for office and references to his stand-up abilities, including an endorsement from this publication.

Within hours, elections commissioner Joe Rogers appropriately found the mass e-mail to be a gross violation of the elections code - candidates were warned that mass e-mails were forbidden - and within his sound discretion ordered D'Angelo to cease campaigning, further sanctioning him to have all his campaign materials removed by 6 p.m.

He made the decision based on a precedent set in 1997 when former presidential candidate Rhonda Wilson exceeded her campaign expense limit.

If D'Angelo had a problem meeting those demands, he was instructed to immediately inform Rogers.