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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...
...larger issue is that singling out Jay for bringing politics into the election is unfair and absurd. Hyman claimed that he would have treated Perspective President Emeritus Jedediah S. Purdy '97 in the same way, but Hyman's own words at the election contradict his feigned impartiality...
...Jay's opponent in the runoff, Avery W. Gardiner '97, is an outspoken liberal. More important, Gardiner was campaign manager for Council President Lamelle D. Rawlins '99. Gardiner's liberal politics and partisan interest in the council are no reason to disqualify her, in my opinion. Rather, they speak well of her energy and commitment to improving student government. But if Jay's strong opinions on council affairs and politics are a disqualifying factor, then Gardiner should also have been disqualified. Your reporter did not bother to ask Hyman why he was singling out Jay for criticism...
...this evidence that Gardiner (the former chair of the IOP's Student Advisory Committee) attempted to pack the vote? Of course not. Fairness, however, would seem to require the same scrutiny for Gardiner and the IOP as was given to Jay...
Hyman's attack on Jay is unfortunate because it undermines the credibility of the committee by injecting a note of partisanship where none exists. All three candidates for chair said that they saw no reason for politics to enter into the work of the committee; Hyman is doing a grave disservice to the committee by trying to make it appear partisan. The "fears" Hyman expressed at the election, and then eagerly repeated in an interview with your reporter after the election, are all-too-likely to become a self-fulfilling prophesy. Perhaps this is Hyman's goal...