Protest on your own dime

Your editorial correctly chastises the university for taking too long to evaluate Proposal 2, especially since they could have begun the process at least when it reached the ballot. However, you give the university too much leeway in the steps it should take today.

Whether or not the university disagrees with Proposal 2 is irrelevant and any attempt to encourage students to fight the law should be considered an abuse of the administration’s powers. As public employees, they have no right to use their position to fight the enforcement of this state’s constitution. If President Lou Anna K. Simon and others wish to protest, they are free to resign and fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

On the other hand if they chose to continue to collect their taxpayer-funded salaries while fighting the will of the people, they need to be terminated immediately and replaced by those who respect the law.

[Letter to the Editor - The State News. Published 01/10/2007.]