I just finished reading today’s Daily Free Press and was shocked to see the letter Jaron Friedman wrote. How can you possibly assert that a majority, or even a recognizable fraction of the student population living on campus, supports the current guest policy. And how dare you profess to speak for the “silent majority” of which I am part because we actively and wholeheartedly support the Student Union and its proposal for a new and revised Guest Policy? The reason some of us don’t attend meetings and participate actively in the Union is we, unlike you last year, are concentrating on our classes in an attempt to get our $34,000 worth from BU.

It isn’t like a new policy would eliminate security at the buildings. Instead, there would be an increase in security with revised Guest Policy procedures to prevent people from trying to get around the rules. I would feel better, too, knowing all the people here can actually have friends from home visit more than five times a semester. I have had to tell friends they can’t come visit me because I was out of guest passes. How is that right? I pay over $1,000 a month to live in a dormitory, and on top of that, there is no TV, and I can only have five guests per semester. Explain to me how that makes any sense.

You have used stats and examples in your letter that are both misconstrued and completely wrong. That is an insult to the intelligence of your fellow students. In closing, I would like to urge you to not misrepresent your fellow students. Believe it or not, barely anyone paying tuition at this university support current guest rules. This doesn’t mean we don’t support BU or that we are not proud to go here. It just means that BU could be a better place without a chancellor.