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Geographically Challenged
I find it quite ironic that in Monday’s column by Eric Pfeiffer, he criticizes “Heaton Seeker,” who sent him an anonymous death threat. Isn’t Pfeiffer the same person who wrote a column (“Hey Jay: Activism doesn’t stop with WRC,” ODE, Oct. 10) criticizing the ASUO and how it is run when he was on the other side of the country?
Writing an anonymous death threat is the act of a coward, but so too is one who mocks a community in which he isn’t currently involved. It’s fine if you want to tell us all about the inner politics of Washington, D.C., because you may have experienced it first-hand, but it is absurd for you to judge the current politics here at the University. You say that Breslow’s leadership methods on this campus are flawed, but you are not even here to see these methods. You continue by stating, “Anyone who even remotely follows the ASUO knows this is the truth.”
How can you logistically follow the ASUO from Washington, D.C., though? Breslow has led the ASUO Executive staff and other students to unthinkable goals this fall highlighted by an amazing voter registration drive. Yes, you could read about the voter registration drive on the Internet, but the ASUO has done so much more on this campus that you, Mr. Pfeiffer, simply cannot see.
If you ask me, Pfeiffer, you and Seeker are both cowards.

Jeff Oliver

political science & journalism

ASUO housing advocate
 
Editor’s note: Eric Pfeiffer was on campus, not in Washington, D.C., during the WRC protests and the campaign and election of Jay Breslow and Holly Magner. Pfeiffer’s column, available in our online archives at www.dailyemerald.com, focused on those early aspects of Breslow’s rise to power.