This letter is written in response to Andrea Hauser’s column in Monday’s Daily (“Governments caught up in bylaws”). Hauser wrote a lot of things about the IRHA and the impeachment of Sarai Arnold. I would like to respond to a few of them.

Bylaws are necessary to running a good government. The bylaws outline procedures for everything IRHA does, including the unfortunate situation of impeaching Sarai Arnold. The bylaws are publicly available on the IRHA web site, and anyone with questions who doesn’t want to read them may ask IRHA Vice President David Boike. It is part of Boike’s job to know them and answer questions.

In addition, I have read the IRHA bylaws in their entirety, as have several members of IRHA parliament, and those of us who know them best would gladly explain anything that anyone wanted to know.

Furthermore, the attendance policy was described to all members of parliament, in detail, and Sarai should have known this was coming. Everything was done according to procedures in the bylaws. Bylaws exist to keep order and protect the rights and privileges of everyone who is governed by them. They may sometimes be long, but without all those pages we’d be much worse off.

As a final note, all records from executive session are sealed, but they exist. The main reason for executive session is not to tarnish the reputation of the accused more than necessary, but if the people of BLFF, or anywhere else in the residence halls wanted to see them, IRHA could un-seal them.

However such requests from a Daily columnist and editors who live off campus would not be acted upon. I’m sorry, it’s not personal, IRHA exists to serve the students in the res-halls, and no one else.

David Breutzmann

Junior

Computer science

TRA At-Large Representative to IRHA