As a student in CHASS, I received an email from Dara Leeder that disturbed me the morning of the election. In her email, Leeder sent out recommendations from the CHASS Council on candidate endorsements for the elections. It seems to me that having faculty and organizations support certain candidates over others does not serve the idea that candidates should be selected for a position by their peers in an unbiased manner, especially on the day of an election. Do you feel it is just for an arbitrary and non-legislative body, like the CHASS Council, to bias political results on voting day when the candidates themselves cannot campaign to defend arguments made against their candidacy? I think it is unfair for a University employee to do so, and it is ethically questionable.
Samuele Viscuso
senior, political science
