I generally assume good faith and intellectual honesty in people who disagree with me, but Andrew Reeve's comments in yesterday's article ("Future of student advocates still uncertain") were laugh-out-loud absurd. Reeve said Nick Stathes' call for an open USG constitutional convention was a "run-around democracy."

Let's talk about run around democracy, all duly documented last semester in the Collegian. Let's talk about an anonymous $3,000 payoff raised through Stan Latta in Student Affairs, given to fund UPUA propaganda. Let's talk about forged petition signatures, designed to politically foil the USG Supreme Court. Let's talk about a student government reform meeting where the student government president asked the student government senate president to leave. Let's talk about the lone "open forum" of the UPUA process, where the sole dissenter, a two-term USG senator, was heckled and asked to leave.

Secret meetings, secret constitutions, secret payoffs. Democratic? I think not.

But let's not forget the most ridiculous run-around democracy of them all - that UPUA is claiming a mandate to represent students despite receiving fewer votes than USG's presidential election, won by Stathes.

Mr. Reeve, just how stupid do you think Penn State students are?