LETTER: HOWL apology insulting

To the editor:

    Does the ASUSU think so little of the intelligence levels of their fellows that they feel that we would happily accept being pandered to?

    We’re all highly intelligent, thinking individuals who can see for ourselves that this letter to the statesman was nothing but fluff. A shallow attempt to appease the rather substantial percentage of the HOWL’S highly disappointed attendees.

    Was it solely out of misguided feelings of obligation which led to this extremely weak and watered down, blatantly insincere apology to the students for their absolutely abysmal attempt of planning and executing this year’s HOWL?

    I certainly didn’t feel apologized to. This spokesman spent the first half of his so called “apology” defending ticket sales: “While it is true that the HOWL was sold out it was not over-sold, and everyone that bought a ticket had the right to participate in the event.”

    Obviously we had the right to participate but where was the opportunity?

    I suppose that I and those in my immediate environment had the ability to get together and have a fantastic evening on our own while we spent from 9:40-12:10 waiting in line together, moving from the bus turnaround to the map locator, 60 yards in almost two and a half hours with 50 minutes to make it another hundred. Even had we gotten in what would we have enjoyed? And for how long?

    That says to me OVER-sold and Under-planned.

    The second and larger portion of this letter was even more of a slap in the face than the pitiful excuses of the first portion. This spokesman spends the majority of the “apology” trying to excuse himself further by telling us about what a good job they actually had done and about all the fun and exciting things that were happening and to thank all of the people that contributed to the success of the HOWL.

    I guess that I – and the absolutely staggering number of others – got a completely different view of the level of success of the HOWL.

    In whose reality is telling those of us about all the great things we COULD have done and all the fun that we COULD have had an effective portion of an apology?

    Hidden right in between excusing themselves and extolling the finer points of the HOWL Mr. Atwood includes ONE and only one line of actual apology. “I can’t tell you how sorry I am.” Big deal, This line was immediately followed by “I could give a detailed explanation outlining the reasons, but what matters most…” Once again, nothing more than an excuse.

    I can read through this petty and insincere letter as can the rest of my fellow students. Have a little respect for our intelligence. I felt more apologized to by Tyler Barlow in his probably much more accurate article titled, “Feeling a HOWL of a headache” than I did by the ASUSU. “An apology to the party goers lost in line” was not an apology, it was a shame-faced organizations automatic and defensive response to being called out.

Robert Winters