Voting members of the ASPC Senate this year are operating under some restrictions. They have agreed to a code under which if a senator can benefit from the outcome of a vote, that senator is not supposed to take part in the vote. This policy, imaginably instituted so that senators only enter into voting situations from what is a seemingly neutral position, is inappropriate for a college of Pomona’s small size, and harmful to the fate of the campus.

This past week a senator approached The Student Life, concerned that Senate, led by ASPC President Brian Andrews ’01, had been breaking its own constitution by conducting business during private meetings. While Andrews disputes whether or not either of these gatherings constituted a private meeting in violation of Senate bylaws, it is clear that both did.

Conor Friedersdorf’s editorial entitled "Biased U.S. Cannot Foster Mid-East Peace" is full of misinformation and misrepresentation. While I cannot address all of his arguments in this letter, I will try to address the most vexing ones.

I hesitantly offered to write for the sports section of The Student Life at the beginning of the semester. The hesitancy derived from my low opinion of the quality of the paper as a result of its poor content and writing style during my first semester on campus. I chose to write for the paper because I found it more important to attempt to actively change it, rather than to absently denigrate it.