THE COOP SLATE

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The CRIMSON'S most recent "Coop opposition slate" piece was on several accounts erroneous. (1) It quoted me as asserting that the Coop "inflated membership figures" in determining its quorum. When I spoke with the CRIMSON reporter, I indicated only that there were apparent substantial errors in the Coop's membership calculation, without attributing any purposiveness, any notion of deliberate inflation, to that calculation. (2) It had me declaring that "we know that many students eligible to vote were turned away." It would have been irresponsible of me to pretend to knowledge of many disenfranchised students, when by definition those who could not vote didn't have their votes counted in any way. While several students have come forward declaring that they were not permitted to vote, I have no idea how large a group they were a part of.

In my CRIMSON conversation, I suggested to the reporter that he was after a non-story, that in fact nothing had happened since the last time the CRIMSON had covered this beat. It would be unfortunate if the attention that has been given to nice questions of procedural propriety distracted from the intention of the opposition slate, which sought to have the Coop rethink its business responsibilities, and its social responsibilities, to the communities which it serves. David L. Kirp   Instructor and   Assistant to the Dean