To the Editor:
As a two-year Executive Editor of the Free Press from 1989 to 1991, I viewed the Student Senate as adversarial and petty. As the Student Senate Chair from 1991 to 1992 I viewed petty wars with stupid people closer than I would ever have chosen to be to them.
The major issue, of course, was how to fund the communication entities. I left when the SCB was getting its overhaul. Today, I look at the SCB and see it as very beneficial to both the student government and to the communication entities.
Because of pedantic parliamentary challenges and ignorant campaigns, my experience with the Student Senate on the whole was of a majority of good people who were terrorized by the petty politics of others.
I write today because of Elise Adams’ April 22 Free Press story which puts Ben Hoffman once again at odds with The Free Press.
Hoffman went to the extreme measure of rousing a motion (which was ultimately tabled because he did not understand the legalities) to suspend stipend payments from Free Press staff.
I remember your face, Ben, because it was the same one I wrestled with ten years ago in the ridiculous, childish wars that only people like you could drum up. Let me give you a little advice.
We stamped your face and politics out back then. And I would like to inform you that you’re in for a rude awakening as well. You are a minority. Did you not learn that from the referendum results?
Do you not learn? Do you know that you are at a university and not in a sand box?
Hoffman, grow the hell up and let the communications entities be what they must.
Andrew J. Levesque
1992 USM alumnus