Re: “SOGS president not recalled” Dec. 2, 2009

To the editor:

It was nice to see that the Gazette included the full results of the vote; however, there should be some clarity as to timing of the motion.

Before the recall motion was performed a petition was sent out to verify the support for it. This petition was circulated at the same time as the petition for the referendum on Canadian Federation of Students membership, though no connection between the two was ever made, as far as I could tell, until after the fact.

Your article suggests the recall was attempted after the referendum campaign for CFS membership, implying the recall was related to the campaign. This is incorrect, as preparations for the recall were performed at the same time as the CFS campaign and for reasons independent of it.

Anyone who read both sides of the issue would be aware of this, and I am glad the Gazette included the same information links that were e-mailed to all graduate students. That will allow anyone interested to see what the issue was all about, though I strongly recommend interested individuals also read the approved council minutes for the past several months.

—Robert Haworth
Computer Science Graduate Student