The Press should have emphasized the errors of two BUSU candidates

In any election there are strong candidates and weak candidates, experienced and inexperienced candidates. All candidates are different, but one thing they have in common is a past -- a history of doing both good and bad.In this year's BUSU executive elections students only heard about the good. Our only unbiased source of electoral information, The Brock Press, barely touched on anything remotely negative towards any candidate - even when the bad had direct implications on the candidate's legitimacy and how well they would perform in their elected role.

As someone who is highly involved at Brock, I know that one candidate resigned from a previously elected position for reasons which are not public knowledge, that another candidate has a history of violence and uttering threats and another was fired from a job with the University for breaking the law. Are these the only negative issues affecting candidates of this election? Not at all, they are simply examples of what every student had a right to know and yet did not.

I believe that every candidate in every election needs to be held under the highest level of scrutiny by The Press on behalf of all students. I do understand why The Press has the need to be hesitant about these issues, but they are the only bastion of unbiased information during BUSU elections and students have a right to know all the information about every candidate - not just what candidates want them to know.

-- Nick Brown,

2nd year business administration