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Wainess and Goodstein are effective leaders

Contrary to the assertions in your March 18 editorial ("Without representation: Wainess lax in important duty"), my administration has taken the lead in representing students to the Board of Regents. True, we have not yet been able to secure a full ex-officio member of the board; but through our monthly reports and consistent communication with the board, we have developed an unprecedented working relationship with the board and other members of the administration. As a result, Sam Goodstein and I were the first MSA executive officers to ever deliver a full address to the board at a regular regents meeting and we secured this as a biannual right for future executive officers.

Moreover, our success with the board in moving our agenda (from the student fee to preserving Student Legal Services to getting students appointed to the Presidential Search Advisory Committee) has been and will continue to be quite good.

If the editorial board is concerned that I have not been present for regental discussion of zoning regulations for arcane buildings, my apologies. I, for some silly reason, thought it was more important to spend those hours attending meetings about the presidential search, student representation and campus-based health care reform.

FLINT J. WAINESS

MSA PRESIDENT

LSA SENIOR