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>From: Kevin Mayeux <kmayeux@SG.UFL.EDU>
>To: Tony Rosati <rosati@gusun.acc.georgetown.edu>
>Subject: RE: You, Sir, Are a Tyrant and a Dictator!
>Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 17:51:00 EDT
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>Mr. Rosati:
>
>Thank you for your note below.   I am perplexed at the information that you 
>have received and who provided you with the false information that you have 
>referred to in you note.
>
>Student Government has not enacted, nor is considering to enact, any 
>restrictions on First Amendment rights at the University of Florida.  SG 
>even funds the First Amendment Coalition, a group whose purpose is to 
>protect these rights.
>
>By the "cc" on your note to me, it appears that a minority party-- one that 
>was very soundly defeated in the last SG election-- has chosen to relay 
>false or misleading, possibly fraudulent or libelous, information to you and 
>others regarding the SG administration that soundly defeated them at the 
>polls.  It's a shame that "sour grapes" and bitterness would force a group 
>of disenfranchised individuals to stoop so low.  You are not, however, the 
>first person to contact me regarding false reports forwarded to them by such 
>individuals.
>
>This SG administration, including the Senate, is committed to serving the 
>students of the University of Florida and protecting their rights.  I 
>reiterate, there is no proposed or enacted restriction as you have 
>mentioned.   As Student Body President, I have, and will continue, to fight 
>for student rights on all fronts.
>
>Furthermore, as a graduate student myself, I am amazed that you would send a 
>letter to another person, calling them a "Tyrant and a Dictator" without 
>doing even an iota of research to verify the information that you are 
>citing.  I spend many hours a week working tirelessly for the 39,000 
>students of UF, many of which are graduate students such as you and I, and 
>to be lambasted by another who clearly has done no reasonable research or 
>follow-up is both unprofessional and inappropriate.  If you have any 
>questions or concerns about what anyone is doing in the future, it would 
>seem only prudent and appropriate to make some reasonable inquiry before 
>attacking someone else's character, motives, and intent.  It would seem that 
>any "true American" as you put it, would show that kind of common courtesy 
>to a peer.
>
>Kevin Mayeux
>
>P.S.   I would appreciate a note as to how you found out this false 
>information so that it can be corrected for others in the future.
>