Presidential politics is rife with controversies. If it’s not a Watergate break-in, it’s a Monicagate sex scandal. But what about student presidential politics? If you thought the college scene was any more moral, you were wrong… very wrong.
 

To prove just how early the corruptness starts, I present to you the Top 8 Student Body President Scandals:
 

8. Brandon Eickel
 

Last September, Eickel just narrowly missed impeachment over allegations of plagiarism. It turns out that almost half of the bulleted goals listed on the MU student government president’s campaign website actually came from the campaign sites of the College of William & Mary Student Assembly President and the Vice President. While the senate voted only to censure not impeach Eickel, he still took the noble path (for a cheater) and resigned.
 

7. Cole Jones
 

Unlike Brandon Eickel, Cole Jones said he’d resign right away, but then took it back. In Oct. 2007, the president of the UNC-system Association of Student Governments faced questions about his leadership and a recent conviction for misdemeanor assault. A silly little thing like a criminal record wasn’t going to stop Jones from staying put at least until he formed an “exit strategy.”
 

6. Meredith Dolgin
 

Meredith Dolgin somehow managed to embroil herself in three different scandals before resigning as president of NYU’s student council in April 2007. The most recent controversy had something to do with improperly disbanding an election committee), but more interestingly, Dolgin paid her grandma $2,200 in university funds to speak at a school forum and planned a trip to a pumpkin patch for herself and two others on the student council’s dime.
 

5. Mackee Mason and Sandra Flores

Just last week Student Body President Elect Mackee Mason and Executive Vice President Sandra Flores found themselves in hot water after admitting to providing alcohol to minors at a university sanctioned retreat. The Fresno State students, who are on probation, are also accused of buying alcohol using university funds, though Mason claims the drinks were only mistakenly charged to the university credit card.
 

4. Marco Pena

"Do you know who I am?" may help celebrities get out of trouble, but not so much with student leaders. Pena, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and student body president, was arrested outside his frat house when UCF officers came to conduct a traffic stop. Pena appeared drunk and repeatedly tried to interfere with the officers, goading them to take him to jail and saying he was a close friend of the police chief, even stating the chief "would get this matter taken care of."

 3. Zach Yost

When it comes to politics, Zack Yost apparently missed the memo about political correctness. The Michigan Student Assembly president resigned after a private Facebook group he created a year earlier was revealed. The group mocked MSA representative Tim Hull, who has Asperger’s syndrome, and included a description that read: “I’ll give that kid a ****ing disability he can write home about if he keeps sending these code amendments to everyone.” Classy.

2. Kasey Cole Swisher

Kasey Cole Swisher managed to get his fraternity tangled in a scandal. In 2002, the student body president of the University of Idaho in Moscow resigned after admitting to stealing a gay pride flag. School senators stole the flag from the Gay Straight Alliance and together with the president went to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house and tried unsuccessfully to burn the fire-resistant flag. The thieves, who claim no homophobia was involved, then chucked the flag in a dumpster.

1. Robert Schuerger

Nobody likes bad press, but when you're in public office you deal with it... unless you are Robert "B.J." Schuerger. In 2001, the Ohio State student body president found out the school paper was running a story about campus leaders spending $2,250 of student fees on a steak dinner. If that extravagance wasn't bad enough, the morning the story was set to run around 10,000 copies of the papers went missing. Suspicious. Once caught, Schuerger and other student leaders were put on disciplinary probation for the rest of college and had to pay the paper $3,200 for lost advertising revenue.