OSU rep ousted after arrest

Oregon State University students voted overwhelmingly to recall a graduate student representative whose white nationalist views and recent arrest on felony hate crime charges created a firestorm on campus.

Nearly 90 percent of those participating in the university’s student government elections this week chose to oust Andew Oswalt from his post.

Oswalt, also lost a separate bid for re-election to the student congress, although he did garner 329 votes.

Oswalt was arrested in January on suspicion of plastering racist bumper stickers on the cars of social justice activists off campus over the summer.

The mounting controversy prompted Oswalt’s peers on student government to hold a public recall vote during this week’s class elections, the first time the body has enacted such a measure.