Editor:

I’m writing this in regards to the article by Bryan Tsao in the Oct. 13 issue of the Guardian about the Samantha Power lecture that praised the ³good turnout² of the event. I was at the event and I was very disappointed by some of the students who were there.

In my opinion, many people lacked listening etiquette ‹ chit-chatting with friends, doodling on notebooks, leaving early, etc. I got the feeling that there were many people, students especially, who did not really want to be at the event. It was obvious that a lot of the students were only there for ulterior motives ‹ to obtain extra credit.

And what made this all the more depressing to me was that they were taking up seats that could have gone to people who really wanted to be there.

Many people could not obtain seats and had to settle with standing behind the top row and leaning over the balcony to watch Samantha Power speak about genocide. Tsao¹s article failed to mention the number of people who stayed behind for the question-and-answer session after the speeches ended ‹ not many.

‹ Amy H. Ma

Eleanor Roosevelt College senior