Dear Editor,

In an attempt to slander Political Science professor Dr. Oneida Meranto, Nick Bahl felt it appropriate to mention and misrepresent the student organization, Native American Students for Un-American activities. As Bahl stated, “Meranto created her own student organization at the beginning of the semester… gathered a group of students, submitted paperwork, and proceeded to form the group, which is now called Native American Students for Un-American.” Besides getting our name and acronym wrong, Bahl totally discredited the work that students put into organizing this group, as well as attempted to dismiss the legitimacy of our organization in general.

To set the record straight, this organization was not created by Dr. Meranto. In fact, the very idea for creating this student organization, as well as our cleaver name, came from Native American students at Metro. Furthermore, the controversy that surrounded the formation of two Native American Student organizations was due to Student Activities, and specifically Zav Dadahboy being “unaware and uninformed as usual.”

I would encourage Nick Bahl and Zav Dadahboy not to use student organizations in their personal attacks against professors and students who volunteer their time to make Student Activities a functional program.

Until Liberation,
Native American Students for Un-American activities

Michelle Rose
President of NASUA