The News recently acquired a note from Joe Husky to the Student Government Association (SGA). It has been reprinted below in its entirety:

We’ve had some good times this year. We really have. But I’ve been doing some thinking these past few weeks. Our relationship has been tense for a while now, and I really don’t know what I’ve been getting out of it. This is going to be hard to say, but I think I’ve just got to spit it out:

Student Government Association, this just isn’t working anymore. I’m breaking up with you. It’s time for us to call it quits.

Our year started with so much promise. We were going to have a shuttle. We were going to have better ways for co-op students to connect with the campus. We were finally going to kick the NU Shuffle. There were so many promises – this year was going to be great.

And then, nothing happened. You did a lot of talking, and that talking turned into fighting. And it wasn’t even about anything real, but petty stuff like Robert’s Rules of Order or the meaning of “capricious.” And, after a while, I kind of stopped caring.

When something seemed too hard – like fighting administration and neighbors who were opposed to creating a safe way to get students to and from Mission Hill – you just gave in.

When something wasn’t especially glamorous – like fixing the peer tutoring system – it got swept under the rug.

When something was popular but wildly unrealistic – like building a stadium or opening West Village F to more than just Honors freshmen – you were all talk.

You did some good stuff this year. You managed to create an opt-out fee for renewable energy (though, really, Mandy O’Brien and the fine people of the Husky Energy Action Team did most of the legwork). And the libraries will be staying open later – good work on that. But, c’mon. You spend hours a week trying to get stuff done, but this year’s list of accomplishments just isn’t that special.

Spring came, and I got excited because I was going to have a say in our future. I was going to get to help pick your next president.

Then your first two choices were basically the same. Then one choice dropped out. Then you tried to keep me from getting to pick from the replacement choice. And I thought that was ridiculous, and I got rather outspoken and caused a scene. But it was worth it because, in the end, I actually had a choice.

But I still wasn’t very pleased about the whole thing, and it took you an extra week to convince me to make a choice. And in the end I went with the first candidate anyway, but mostly just because he was the most attractive contender.

Really, I’ve kind of gotten bored with this whole thing. I feel like you’ve been faking it, just pretending you really care. You’ve been spending too much time on stupid stuff and not enough time fixing things.

So it’s time for our relationship to end. But I’m not closing the door forever. If you clean up your act, I’ll totally take you back.

With love, Joe Husky