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When friends of mine saw Roksar's letter, they were astounded by his temerity in explicitly using my name in his accusations and also in waiving his own anonymity. I was not so surprised. Although Rokhsar may want others to believe that he was writing because he saw something "wrong and unfair," I found his letter to the editor to be little more than a personal attack...
...Rokhsar were truly interested in the fairness of the elections, there were other courses of action to pursue. I talked to a member of the executive board of the Undergraduate Council who told me that Roksar had not filed a complaint with the council concerning this matter. Isn't it somewhat odd that someone who is duly concerned about election fairness failed to report any "infraction" to the council--the one organization that could enact reforms to prevent further such occurrences...
...Rokhsar says he did not want to ask for new elections. However, one can file a complaint without asking for new elections if his or her primary concern is with the wrongness of the process...
...would also like to address my telephone conversation with Rokhsar, from which my quotations were either misquoted or taken out of context. I repeatedly inquired what exactly Rokhsar was accusing me of. He refused to tell me and instead asked me if there was anything I wanted to tell him about the elections. When I told him that there was nothing that stuck in my mind, he found this hard to believe...
...wrong and unfair, something that I expected to witness in elections in a remote Middle Eastern dictatorship like Syria, and not on the campus of an elite learning institution. And I felt compelled to reflect upon it. The U.C. "elections" or "pseudo-elections"? You be the judge. Kamran Rokhsar...