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by Craig Segal

The president of the Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS) is in hot water for writing a letter condemning racism and sexism in a campus newspaper.

Tuesday night the EUS voted in a closed-door meeting that Anjali Mishra has to apologize for a letter she wrote to the McGill Daily unsanctioned by her fellow student representatives. She's afraid if she doesn't apologize she'll be impeached.

"I'm 100 per cent certain my views represent the vast majority of the EUS students," Mishra said after the meeting. "But it was presumptuous of me to think EUS representatives are anti-sexist and anti-racist."

The fuss is over the December issue of The Plumbers' Faucet, put out by the EUS. A page 2 letter to the editor signed by the bogus name Feek Al Mahtair refers to shit as "little Huxtables," and a page 4 editorial offering advice on picking up women says, among other things, "Women with weird smells" are "the perfect target for an easy kill." The editorial is opposite an article commemorating the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre.

After reading the December issue, Mishra says she told an EUS representative she would write a letter to the McGill Daily condemning the Faucet. The EUS voted that she should not be allowed to write to papers other than the Faucet. She wrote the letter anyway.

Faucet editorial staff printed an apology for both the editorial and the letter in the January issue.