Dear Editor,

I found your 18 March editorial “Student Gov’t: Be careful what you run for” to be appallingly inaccurate and embarrassing betrayal of an organization that has contributed over $5000 to your newspaper and its staff this year. Furthermore, this article is riddled with unbelievably basic mistakes: Director of Budget and Finance Andrew Garcia is reported to be the “Director of Business and Finance”, and Director Rachna Arhi’s name appears fully three times in the article as “Ari”. The article’s authors, whose names are mysteriously missing, have managed to convince themselves that they are writing a fair article by injecting half a column of praise in the middle of a six-column berating of the Associated Students’ officers and advisers. I will never know what has possessed you to allow such a vicious attack of one of the newspaper’s biggest backers over the last few years to be printed, but I hope you understand the long-term ramifications it may have.

Regards,

James H. Pilkington

Vice President

Associated Students

Please attach my name to this letter when you publish it; unlike the “journalists” authoring this article, I stand by my words.