San Francisco city politics are not the only source of theater in this town. SF State's own student politics has seeped into the spotlight over the past few weeks.

What is at stake is whether the current elected president of SF State's Associated Students, Inc., Isidro Armenta, may continue as president. SF State declared Armenta ineligible to hold office and named Claudia Mercado, who was vice president of internal affairs, as ASI president.

The issue is if Armenta has accrued more units than the 150 allowed under CSU Executive Order 969, which states an undergraduate student needs less than 150 semester units to participate in student government.

What is not stated is whether all those units are based on all units the student has accumulated from the community college level and up.

As [X]press has reported, Armenta wants only units he earned from SF State to be considered and the 14 units he earned from outside SF State to be waived, which would allow him to continue as president.

SF State notified Armenta, saying that he has a total of 154 units.

Armenta said that the university should not count the four units of credit from a student leadership seminar at CSU Monterey Bay's Panetta Institute. He also does not want units he earned at community college to count toward his total.

This issue needs to be resolved quickly. Most likely, the unit total will encompass everything the student has earned. Community college units count toward our degrees. Why should they not count toward the number units needed for the ASI president?

Armenta needs to realize that he's on the losing side of the battle. The executive order is just a check and balance system to keep fresh blood infused into our student leadership.