(Photo Delgado used to campaign.)
 

After news broke that the 2009 senior class president was busted for stealing bus tickets from the Memorial Union Information Desk--to facilitate his spring break trip to Puerto Rico--Oliver Delgado has gone into damage control mode.

Step 1:  Admit. Caught red-handed with the tickets (by matching serial numbers), Delgado admitted to stealing the six bus tickets.

Step 2:  Plead not guilty.  Prior admissions are irrelevant it seems.
"I definitely accept responsibility," Delgado said.

Step 3:  Displace Blame.  When the Union bus travel desk was closed, Delgado said he “didn’t know what to do."  So he stole tickets, allegedly.

“I didn’t go with the intention of stealing; that’s not who I am, and that’s not the way I was brought up,” he added.

Why did he steal six tickets instead of two for him and his travel-mate?  Well, Delgado was "forced to steal all six tickets because they came bundled together."  They must have been welded together one can only assume.

"Delgado said the situation is a “learning experience” and that he has no plans to resign his position." 

Even his teachers aren't singing his praises:
An alleged former teacher of Delgado's commented in the Cap Times: 

"This is not surprising. I had this young man as a student, and he's a politician, through and through. Tries to get by on his charm and his resume instead of effort and responsibility. I couldn't believe it when he was elected class president. Well, I could, but..."

(Delgado quotes from The Badger Herald)