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06 January 2004 letter
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Exec deceives in letterTo the editor, At the end of November, Imprint published a letter from the Feds executives that mentioned my community editorial published on November 14. In their letter, they obfuscate the situation by trying to take credit for the actions and ideas of others and not addressing their lack of openness. They give examples of decisions being sent to Students' Council. The sending of the decisions came from studentsand not the executive. They make unsupported claims of increasing information on the Feds website, but before my editorial, they did not even have minutes from Students' Council meetings on their website. They say they are better than the executives who came before them, but their immediate predecessors published, where they did not, minutes from both Students' Council and Board of Directors meetings. The issue they are trying to avoid is their lack of openness. In the Tim Hortons decision, the executives supported the losing Symposium proposal. Student councillors voted for Tim Hortons by a factor of four to one. This is an indicator of Feds secrecy; either the executive aren't intelligent enough to identify the inferior proposal or they did not provide enough information for students to see what the executives saw. The letter acknowledges the importance of honesty and accountability; Chris Edey's actions in October contradict that when he made false statements to Students' Council. He was asked whether proper notice had been given for the annual general meeting, he said, "yes." Proper notice had not been given. When that was indicated he explained that Imprint published the wrong ad. Clearly if he knew that the wrong ad had been published, he knew proper notice had not been given. Also in the lette, the executives state that one of my comments on uwstudent.org originated elsewhere. The executives mischaracterize my statement of fact. After the December council meeting, where business could not be considered for lack or quorum both Chris Edey and Dave Capper acknowledged a need for improved communication, but this is not reflected in their letter published nine days earlier where they criticise my inbtroduction of the important issue of communication. That is yet more deception from a group of supposed student leaders who would prefer to avoid the taking of responsiblity. — Ryan Chen-Wing |
Link to original piece: Feds secrecy hurts us and it hurts them 13 Nov 2004
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