While I appreciate the Emerald’s reportage of the ASUO Sunriver incident, I do not agree with the focus of Monday’s editorial (“ASUO’s bad behavior is too much for us to swallow,” ODE, Nov. 1). The editorial board’s tirade fails to adequately address the most relevant issue of this “scandal”: ASUO’s use of incidental fees. While discovering the identity of the “mystery authors” might make for sensational press, it would surely deflect criticism away from the ASUO body as a whole, where the blame for this incident should lie.
My disappointment with the ASUO derives from the fact that its members spent an excessive amount of our incidental fees on a finance retreat. Yet, let us not forget that the ASUO has already publicly apologized for its inappropriate conduct, initiated a policy of
sobriety agreements on future retreats and plans to return $3,200 to the University through community service. The vindictive language in Monday’s editorial proves that in lieu of these reforms, the Emerald’s editorial board continues to hunt for student faces to pin to this incident. The editorial board should return to writing about relevant issues that concern the student populace.

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