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From elhunter@wam.umd.edu Fri May 14 00:33:29 2004 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 22:30:51 -0400 From: "E. L. Doc Hunter, IUS" <elhunter@wam.umd.edu> To: Soun Pil Kwon <spkwon@glue.umd.edu> Subject: RE: GSG Elections Request from Doc Hunter
Soun,
A colleague of mine just now forwarded this to me. A couple of comments:
1) The fact that you sent this to a bunch of people and NOT to me indicates that you are a damn coward. At least when I despised you and helped to run out of the GSG and ban you for life, I had the courage to tell you to your face in trial what a schmuck I thought you were. You're a pathetic little man.
2) I noticed that you conveniently left out the fact that you had been rode out on a rail and banned for life. Hmmmm... I wonder why. Could it be because it would undermine whatever minor amount of credibility that you might have?
3) Your statements are riddled with inaccuracies and misleading information. Though, here, I know I am hardly telling you anything you don't know.
When are you going to get it Soun. It's over. You lost. You're out. No one cares what you think about anything. You're a joke inside and out of the GSG.... you're the butt of countless jokes. You ARE a joke. A bitter little man who never got anything accomplished but still felt the need to howl at the moon that the devils were at the gates of Rome.
You call yourself a (self-appointed, I might add) "GSG watchdog." That could only be true if you had ANY constituency to report back to. You don't. You'd don't represent anyone but yourself. I do. Now shut the fuck up and sit down.
Doc
> > Dear Fellow Graduate Student and Student Organization Leader, > > Recently, you have received the following message from "E. L. Doc Hunter" > which include the following statements. > > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, E. L. Doc Hunter, IUS wrote: > > > the new Plan of Organization (Constitution) referendum is in > desperate need > > of assistance. The new PO simply MUST pass... too many good people have > > spent too much time over the past three years on this project to have it > > fail due to nothing more than poor voter turn-out. > > > > Getting the new PO passed will be a big help to my > administration, to the > > > > > In the coming weeks, my administration will be announcing its > goals for the > > fall semester and will be setting up shop, so to speak, in order to get > > things mobilized for the coming year. For those of you still > active in the > > As a "watchdog" on GSG activities and as an activist on graduate student > issues, I have worked within and independently of the GSG and can help > you clarify what voting during this GSG election period means. > > Some of you who have been here for three years or more will know that > there has already been two votes on the PO which passed over the same > period. "E. L. Doc Hunter" actually drafted some of the previous PO. > Also, according to those who participated in drafting the New PO, there is > very little change in the content of how the GSG will be structured and > operate. Why then have a new PO? The NEW PO and set of by-laws is now > structured so that it can be changed easily. In other words, "E. L. Doc > Hunter" would like you to vote to pass the NEW PO so that he and others > can change the rules and procedures more easily than before. When that > happens some of the rights of graduate students within the GSG go to the > handful of people who regularly participate and make up the majority in > the GSG Assembly and Executive Committee. And participation in the GSG is > very low, much lower than the SGA that you may have been reading about in > the Diamondback. > > If you are wondering why participation is low, you will first note that > nothing much has been done to improve it. So, "What has the GSG done for > me lately? Do they reflect my views?" etc. If you are part of a student > organization you know that rules and expectations for funding support are > inconsistent and change depending on who the GSG VP for Finance is. If > you are a student activist, like myself, you know that the GSG leadership > is often opposed to proposals and ideas other than their own. For > example, "E. L. Doc Hunter" who will be the new GSG President opposed > supporting a student resolution against the "Iraq War". In fact, he > surprisingly compared peace activists to Nazi appeasers of WWII. He also > initially opposed supporting the unionization of graduate student > employees only to reverse course "with the direction of the wind". During > his relationship with the University Senate and GSG he has been more > concerned with rules and making rules than with advancing student issues. > Reading his candidate statement you will note that there is nothing > there about student issues. There is nothing about the candidates that > compels us to vote. This is a reason why participation is low and a lot > of people rather avoid the GSG. > > Voting on the NEW PO does not fix any of this. Rather, come next year or > even next month, go to the GSG Assembly meeting and organize with others > to have your issues, be it housing, stipends, tuition, fees, benefits, > more money for your student organization, better accountability, heard and > addressed there and then. There are reasons for voting in this years > elections, for example the "Technology Fee Question", that "E. L. Doc > Hunter" does not even mention. However, most of our concerns are not > addressed here. > > Regards, > > SPK
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You epitomize the term 'troll' used so frequently on the net...except you do it in real life. No one likes it on the internet...and people ABHOR it in real life.
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