Today’s articles on Chris Wisher were disgusting. How much did the Burkhardt/White campaign pay you (unofficially, of course) to write such blatant and outright lies about Mr. Wisher? Or did the B/W lackeys (Wiese, McLaren, IRHA, Ad Nauseum) have some kind of say in this? This campus asks for so little from the Daily, and boy do they get it! If your writers knew anything about FAIRNESS or EQUALITY (or even some basic human dignity or respect), they would get all their facts in before they just accept the liberal posterboys’ word for it that Wisher is Satan himself. If any of you actually KNEW Chris, you would know he is not only a man of his word, but a man of character. He has not resorted to personal attacks or tricks throughout this entire campaign, unlike the B/W campaign, which has done a nice job of removing most of the Wisher/Johnson flyers. A true newspaper is unbiased, ESPECIALLY DURING A CAMPAIGN!!! Ooops, I guess your “How to be a good liberal handbook” didn’t say anything about that. The whole P.C. follow me attitude in the Daily says a lot about just how devoid of thought most people on the staff must be.

If any of you had read the flier Mr. Wisher mailed out instead of taking the already biased word of alleged student organizations such as IRHA, the current president Robert Wiese and any of the other ones I missed (you know who you are), you would know that the letter stood for taking a stand against unfair rent increases. If Wisher was elected merely on the strength of those letters it would send a pretty strong message that the students of this university DO CARE about how the powers that be spend their money! It would tell President Jischke that if he approves that increase he is acting against the will of the students. As Wisher states on the flier, “We can turn my campaign into a referendum against this unfair rent increase.” Do any of you have a dictionary??? A referendum is a submission of law to a direct vote of the people. In layman’s terms, the letter conveys that a vote for Wisher is taking a stand against this rent increase. If Wisher was elected by a sizable margin, it would say a lot about the way the students look at this increase. Maybe then Jischke would think twice, realizing that what the people of this university want is a president who stood up for what students believed in; Real Issues and Real Leadership.

Which brings me back to the unsavory tactics of Burkhardt/White. They knew they couldn’t win a fair election, so they feel the need to attack NOT Wisher’s stand on issues, but his character instead. This is so low and underminded that it makes you wonder what all that fairness and equality crap B/W have been coughing up these last few weeks is about. People Chris has known for years now won’t even look him in the face! WHY? Because there are people who are willing to do ANYTHING to keep him out of office. To have Chris Wisher’s name blemished merely for political gain is revolting to me and should be to anyone with the slightest bit of respect and decency. The Daily, Burkhardt/White, IRHA, GSB executives and others have told us a lot about their own morals and respect in the last few days. They say that for all their talk, all they are interested in is themselves.

By the time this is published, the election will be over. But whoever wins, people will still remember Chris Wisher not as a presidential candidate, but as a liar. This disturbs me greatly. As a good friend of Chris’s AND as a human being, I feel that all the above involved in the slanderous remarks towards this fine man, who has done absolutely nothing wrong, owe him a public apology.

Jason E. Crane

Freshman

Philosophy

Editor’s note: In the article on page 2 of Wednesday’s Daily, we presented the statements outlined by Wisher’s flier and the responses from various other student leaders. We also spoke to Wisher himself for the story, who defended his actions. The staff at the Daily stands by our equal coverage of the story.