Word: hymans
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Your story on the election of a chair for the Undergraduate Council Reform Committee (news story, March 19) reported, without any context, inflammatory, unfair and inaccurate remarks made by former council president Robert M. Hyman '98 about the candidacy of William M. Jay '98. Minimal research on the part of your reporter would have made clear just how off the mark Hyman's attacks on Jay were...
...Hyman announced in the question-and-answer period that he was concerned the Reform Committee would handicap itself by electing someone who would "politicize" the committee. He went on to suggest that unnamed groups were attempting to pack the chair election for sinister purposes...
...Hyman claimed that a candidate had recently posted a newsgroup article claiming to be the "candidate of the Right." The implied accusation against Jay, the only candidate who is a political conservative, is not supported by reality. A few days before the meeting, a post was made on the newsgroup alt.groppi noting that an e-mail had been sent to both the BGLSTA and Perspective mailing lists accusing right-wingers of having attempted to take over the Reform Committee and encouraging liberal students to oppose this effort. Jay responded with a post explaining why conservatives would want to have...
...then asked, "So does this mean that'll look bad if I run for chair?" and signed the post "The Right Wing." This is not evidence of any sort of conservative plot; Hyman's claim to the contrary shows him to be either humor-impaired or disingenuous...
...really fun atmosphere," Hyman said. "A lot of people told me they wouldn't have come if Pharcyde hadn't been there...