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I’m disappointed with the tone and utter lack of civility displayed by the chairman of College Republicans in writing to The Chronicle—from his rude dismissal of Zach Perret as not one of the “serious candidates” for Young Trustee to his unnecessarily sensitive and mocking Feb. 9 letter to the editor titled “Chronicle coverage of State of the Union leans left.”

With regards to the latter: If one has a serious problem with The Chronicle’s “bias,” I’d hope that one would be responsible enough to write a calm, civil letter to the editor and lay off the overblown, oversensitive mocking—especially if that individual is running an organization as important and influential as College Republicans. There’s a way to be polite in discourse like this, and I’m sorry to see that this student has not learned it.

Sandeep Prasanna

Trinity ’11