Boston University students should be mad as hell. Granted, recent developments in the Student Union-allegations of misappropriation of funds, unnecessary expenditures and forgery-shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. Carl Woog and his misfits were destined for failure. But they’ve crossed the line. They have not just failed the students; they have taken advantage of them. They have betrayed them. They have demonstrated to the entire student body and university administration that they lack all integrity.

Worst of all, Dean Elmore and company are letting them get away with it. Boston University students should be mad as hell.

In yesterday’s Free Press, Carl Woog and Remie Ferreira again dodged question after question about the misuse of funds. Clearly identifying the mole in their organization-the righteous, albeit cowardly “deep throat” who leaked the Union’s indiscretions to the press-takes precedence over assuming responsibility for betraying the students’ trust. The student body gave these boobs an incredible opportunity to affect this campus, to make change and to better the Boston University experience. The promises they made during the campaign will never be realized, unless they take responsibility for their actions now. If efficacy is to be restored, Woog and Ferreira must resign.

Maybe those cooks in California got it right. If you don’t like your elected officials, kick ’em out of office. Unfortunately, there’s no recall-like device in the Union constitution, so until those fools resign or the Senate chooses to impeach them it looks like we’re stuck. In the meantime, here’s my advice to the students: If you can’t kick Woog and his misfits out of office, next time you see them in the GSU just kick them.

Of course, Dean Elmore and the university administration doesn’t seem too interested in teaching a lesson to Boston University’s own Bonny and Clyde. In fact, Dean Elmore doesn’t understand that a “circumstance where perhaps someone signed something for someone” is actually the precise definition of forgery. This isn’t the first time the university’s administration breached their fiduciary duty to the student body, and unless you take action now it will not be the last. Boston University students, you should be mad as hell.

You should be mad that we go to university where students are expelled for forgetting to cite a source in a research paper, but where a professor can be demoted for plagiarism and then promoted to dean. You should be mad that we go to a university where students feel like the administration hates them or ignores them. You should be mad that we go to a university where the dean of students threatens a qualified student leader like Joel Fajardo into resignation and makes light of other’s blatant misdeeds.

Perhaps Woog and company don’t know any better. But I expect a lot more from a dean.

Things aren’t going to change unless you do something now. Inundate the Dean of Students Office with letters. Write a writ to impeach Woog and his cronies. Stage a protest in the Dean of Students office. Take an active role in rectifying this situation before the massive hole this administration is digging gets dug deeper. Be mad as hell, and give them hell to pay.

Zachary N. Coseglia COM ’02, LAW ’05