Editor,
Having over the last decade watched the Post editorial board cave almost every time the university or the city tries to screw the students, I suppose that nothing you do should surprise me. However, even for you, your endorsements for City Council are a new low. Bain a student advocate? ROFLMAO! [For those of you not up on Internet abbreviations, Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off]. The pusher of permit parking so that long-term residents would not have to (gasp!) share the streets with students? The banner of student couches? The person who has at every turn embraced every restriction on how many students can live in a house, and where student housing can be, so the students can have the privilege of paying a fortune for housing? The person who in twenty years has done nothing to stop the harassment of the students by the Athens police? And your comment about her being in touch with the students is ludicrous - one meeting with Student Senate in twenty years is not keeping in touch with the students.
Although the Post editorial board clearly does not understand this, respect comes not from sucking up, but from showing that you are a force to be reckoned with. There are three students or recent students - Bir, Roush, Sexton - running for Council, and if students vote for them, students can finally have a voice on City Council. Students are half of this community, they ultimately generate almost every business and job in it, and the city was founded for them. They deserve real, not hand-me-down, representation in our community's government. With this election the students can go a long way toward gaining the respect, the equal accommodation, and the power they deserve, but only if they hang together. And the last twenty years have clearly shown that if the students don't hang together, they will definitely be hung separately.
Athens, Ohio
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