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The cancer in RHA
To the editor, For years, RHA has assembled for the betterment of the residents of the University of Arizona. The reaction from a select few to President Matt Meaker's admitted mistake clearly demonstrated, like Ahmad Saad Nasim's letter to the editor in yesterday's issue of the Daily Wildcat, that there is indeed a cancer in RHA. This cancer, however, is not due to President Matt Meaker, but a few who are not interested in the prosperity of RHA, but simply themselves. As a close observer of and a participant in RHA, I have seen this cancer develop within the organization since the early hours of the 1998 fall semester. It is disheartening for me to see such an affliction brought against a great organization and more importantly people that possess such an outstanding sense of honesty and integrity that they have earned my undying respect. As chairperson of the RHA Constitutional Issues Committee, I find the actions taken by the few in the RHA leadership to bring an issue that they, the executive board, deemed to not have been a gross misconduct by President Meaker before the general body to be suspect. To clear the record, there is NO constitutional regulation regarding procedure in regards to expenditures. All agreements made by the executive board are unofficial and cannot be enforced unless stated in the constitution. To those e-board members who obviously did not read the RHA Constitution, it is time to do so. It is also time to promote legislation to update the constitution and assist the RHA Constitutional Issues Committee, which President Meaker assembled in early December of 1998, in writing legislation that IS for the betterment of RHA. However, if those select, misguided, few who bring the illness of hatred and deceit upon RHA continue on their dark path, they will only successfully continue the dismemberment of the organization. I, for one, welcome the pursuit of those few because those who wish to destroy the unity and integrity of RHA Yes, it is time to cure the cancer on RHA; the cancer must be removed, not President Meaker.
M. Bryan Babich
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