Editor’s Note: A truncated version of this submission was first published by The Sacramento Bee. It has been edited for Daily Bruin style and reprinted below.

I thank the Daily Bruin for its coverage of the Undergraduate Students Association Council Internal Vice President office’s midyear budget report, previously referred to as the USAC quarterly budget report.

The Undergraduate Students Association Council is predictable. Every year, the same issues arise in a slightly new form, with the same back-and-forth petty slate politics, the same anxious and politically charged underclassmen that want the taste of council experience and the same strong momentum that withers away as the year comes to a close and elections are in sight.