SGA official speaks out against R&B

In response to the comments of The Red & Black’s Editorial Board regarding Friday’s article on the SGA budget, it has once again shown a complete disregard to the facts of a story in order to promote its own agenda. First off, anything drawn on a napkin or any crumpled receipts are not a part of this administration’s financial documents. The author of Friday’s article saw our current financial records in a large organized folder in which each expense is outlined in detail with relevant receipts attached to it.

In any event, I am writing in an attempt to expose the true slant of this Editorial Board. Quite simply – The Campus Life Department, the UGA Administration, the students within SGA, and the SGA advisers don’t blame our administration for the $5,250 that we took out of this year's budget to spend on summer orientation materials. If given the chance to actually evaluate the facts of the unbiased story, then I seriously doubt any student on this campus would blame our administration for the situation.

If the article Friday had been a proper representation of the situation, then it would have explained that SGA has to operate on a different cycle than the standard University fiscal year because of elections. Whether we spend $5,250 now or later is irrelevant as long as we adjusted our next year’s budget to compensate. Needless to say, we did that. The point is that The Red & Black has tried to create a huge story when there really is not one. Nice hype, but seriously I expect better from my nationally-ranked school newspaper.

JUSTIN CAUDILL
SGA Treasurer

‘De Luca Drivel’ needs intelligence

So Katy De Luca wants to bench Matthew Stafford late in the game with a three point lead in favor of Joe Cox or Blake Barnes? You mean the same Joe Cox who led us to victory against Colorado and still manages to only run the scout team? Or Blake Barnes who just seems to wear a headset everywhere he goes? I don’t think so.

For once, give Matthew Stafford some credit. The freshman is 3-0 when he starts and yet The Red & Black is still campaigning for our other quarterbacks. It makes absolutely no sense because I guarantee you that when Stafford finally does play up to his potential and wins the big game, the same people who were calling for Joe Cox to start will think Stafford is the best player they have ever seen. It’s the opinions like these in The Red & Black that make me glad that the Collegiate Readership Program is on campus because now I can read opinions from people who actually know what they are talking about.

PATRICK McCARTHY
Senior, Savannah
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