Over the past few days, I have been perusing the pages of your usually pablum and nongermane paper when I happened upon several online comments and a letter that have all missed the point (“Fall funding seen as ‘arbitrary’ by SAFB members,” Thursday).

I have been called an idiot before, I have been called a clown before, and as a member of Senate, I am used to the ridicule of SAFB when we as a parliamentary body reject their well-intentioned recommendations.

However, seeing as for the most part students of Northwestern University are not pre-pubescent, have matured to a stage where in a matter of years we will be adults within society, and hopefully have realized that name-calling is something for the trivial brannigans of children, I fail to understand the constructive nature of comments made by the SAFB at Senate and students under the comments section of The Daily online.

I was referred to in a posted comment as an “idiot of a senator,” and “Senate’s resident clown and the thorn in its ass.” To the writer of the post, “Annie”: I am neither an idiot nor a clown, though I shall proceed to take the reference to a thorn in ASG’s ass as a compliment.

I would much rather be a thorn than an ass, and let me tell you, the harder you scratch a thorn the deeper it will dig in.

– will upton

Weinberg junior

College Republicans’ ASG Senator