Last week, New Baruch Alliance sent out a letter to club leaders asking for signatures for a petition to renovate the student club area.
According to the letter, the petition would be presented to the current interim president, Stan Altman. It outlined several changes: new seating and furniture, freshly painted walls, cable television, printing resources, and extra storage space. Though they may have meant well, NBA's intentions were rendered ineffective by the gross misspellings and grammatical errors in their letter.
The first sentence begins, "In behalf of New Baruch Alliance, I like to ask respectfully to collect signatures." Another sentence reads, "We already have started the effort to collect the signature from the club area; however, we like to accelerate process to make sure Dr. Altman initiates the renovation before new college president takes office for the next semester." These, and numerous other mistakes sprinkled throughout the letter were enough to dissuade anyone from thinking about supporting the cause.
Quite frankly, this letter should never have been approved. It is an embarrassment not only to the author, who has plans to run as president of next year's Undergraduate Student Government, but also to the entire party and, ultimately, USG, which is primarily made up of NBA members.
It is shocking to think that these people have been representing the student body and making negotiations on our behalf all year. Student government leaders represent some of the best and brightest minds of our school. If they can't write a grammatically correct letter, this doesn't say very much of them.
We cannot deny that this is a good cause, as the club area could use some extra resources. NBA must be congratulated for trying a new approach to an effort that the last few USG administrations have failed to pass. However, it would not be surprising if students refused to sign something so poorly written.
If they do succeed in getting enough signatures, we hope that someone with a better grasp of grammar will write the letter they send to the president's desk.
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Last month, they ran out of money for club appeals.
Last week, they decided they are doing such a bang-up job that they deserve to spend $30,000 of our money to buy themselves new chairs.And now this blatant political ploy. I know Garam from class last year, and this seems like the kind of stupid, petty thing he would do. This kid is more or less the definition of arrogant.Most student governments are sleazy, but this group isn't even good at that.