I just wanted to state that terms like “mutiny” are not overreaching when addressing the events surrounding the SA Senate meeting on Jan. 30.

The actions of the new president pro tempore served as an outlandish example of everything politics is not supposed to be about. Winnie Okafor had risen to take Ryan Smith’s spot after unconstitutional and behind-the-scenes political tactics took away his position. The majority of the senate body had the utmost respect for how Smith handled himself in his former position.

I am appalled by Okafor for so quickly stepping in to take the position of president pro tempore. I ask for her to take a moment to reconsider continuing to snare the SA Senate, and to ask her to put politics aside and allow the SA senate to function as constitutionally regulated and free from such debauchery.

Raymond Hoffman III

junior political science and philosophy major

SA Senator