Dear Editor,
I know this topic has been receiving a great deal of attention, but I can’t resist. It’s not time to move on until the students of this university are properly informed regarding this issue.
While many of us know the decision made by the ASUW Judicial Council regarding the various complaints made by Brink/Unangst during the ASUW elections, we haven’t seen a single article, press release or any official notification other than Facebook statuses and text messages regarding the decision.
If the BI is going to write an article mentioning the complaints, perhaps it’s not too much of a request to publish a follow up article? The matter has gotten a sufficient amount of press coverage over on the opinion page, so it hasn’t been completely ignored by the BI staff. As of April 25, the main headline on the Branding Iron website is “Still no verdict on ASUW elections.” That article was posted almost ten days ago.
Also, how come we have not seen any sort of official publication from the Judicial Council? While many people disagree with its decision, the council should have published the decision and how they determined such a decision. How can students know for a fact the decision made by the judicial council was fair and unbiased? One can suspect the ASUW elections may have been carried out with a bias when one of the candidates is rumored to be in a relationship with one of the members of the ASUW Elections Committee. Are we sure this same alleged bias has not occurred with members of the Judicial Council? The less transparent and less open it is, the more students will suspect the Judicial Council has something to hide.
This is a serious issue to many students on campus, and we do not deserve to be left wondering and speculating. Both the BI and the Judicial Council should do their part in finishing what they started. UW students pay for both the BI and the Judicial Council in the form of student fees. Let’s see some results.
Frank Lehnerz