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The new fee increase for Barrett, the Honors College, and the fee’s effects on the downtown Phoenix campus were discussed at a town hall style forum Wednesday with two of the college’s deans.

The Election Committee officially said they will not retract their disqualification of presidential and vice-presidential candidates freshmen Andres Cano and Vaughn Hillyard, but recommended the case be reviewed by a third party, in an e-mail Wednesday afternoon.

Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei spoke of a promising future for the media industry, much to the delight of the around 50 students and faculty members that gathered in the First Amendment Forum of the Walter Cronkite School on Monday night.

The Quick Mart, a new convenience store that opened mid-March in the Arizona Center, will reportedly give ASU students a 10 percent discount, according to store spokesmen.

With a unanimous vote, the ASASUD Senate passed a resolution to support the smoke-free campus initiative on the Downtown campus.

The ASASUD Election Committee said they will not reverse their decision to disqualify the Cano/Hillyard ticket, and said they believe Vasquez/Abercrombie campaign should step down as president and vice-president-elects to enforce another election on Monday at the US Post Office.

Members of the ASASUD Election Committee said they are discussing how an appeal process for the disqualification of the Cano/Hillyard campaign, if any, will be handled late Thursday night and early Friday morning.

Freshmen Andres Cano and Vaughn Hillyard have been disqualified due to election code violations, according to the ASASUD website.

Downtown campus students elected nine new senators to serve in the 2010-11 student government, according to ASASUD's website.

Junior Christian Vasquez and freshman Jessica Abercrombie will serve as 2010-2011 ASASUD president and vice president, according to an ASASUD announcement Thursday morning at the U.S. Post Office.