COLORADO SPRINGS — On the heels of a controversy over student-fee funding for a gay group at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, two gay students have been elected president and vice president for the next school year.
Daniel Garcia and James Burge — both openly gay — will be president and vice president starting in August, according to The Gazette of Colorado Springs. They beat three other teams of candidates, including the incumbent team of president David Williams and vice president Andy Adair, both of whom were impeached by the student body government in recent weeks but not removed.
Citing his beliefs, Williams refused last fall to sign off on a request from Spectrum, a campus gay-lesbian- bisexual-transgender club, for $2,100 in student activity fees to fund a “coming out day” observance for students.
