New interim ASNMSU VP submits plagiarized letter originally authored by student government alumnus
Ehtesham Shareef
Newly-appointed Associated Students of New Mexico State University vice president Ehtesham Shareef did not take much time to get comfortable in his new position to make headlines of his own.
The Round Up Editor in Chief Derek Gonzales recently wrote an editorial that was highly critical of the student government at NMSU. This sparked outrage among some currently working within ASNMSU and even former employees of the government.
This led to former ASNMSU pro-tempore DeLorean Forbes submitting a letter to the editor, sent to the email of Gonzales and his staff, titled “Opinion: A defense of your student government,” on April 15 at 8:02 a.m.
After days without the letter being run and communication between Gonzales and Forbes suggesting that it would not happen because of the lack of credibility the author held as somebody no longer attending NMSU or living in New Mexico, The Round Up received an email from Shareef Wednesday afternoon that said the following: “I would like to submit to the Round-Up an Op-Ed “Opinion: Defense of your student government” in my capacity as the Interim Vice President of ASNMSU. I feel like through-out the last two months, there wasn’t any defense presented from ASNMSU’s opinion to explain the reasoning to initiate an impeachment of the former President Morrow. I am hopeful the Round-up will give me this opportunity to defend the allegations that were presented against ASNMSU, through this Op-Ed.”
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The Round Up reached out to Shareef for comment to explain the situation immediately after receiving the letter that appeared to be plagiarized.
“This was kind of drafted together — we sat down together and drafted it,” Shareef said. “He wanted to send it in the first place but he was told he could not submit it since he is not a student of this campus … I am a little bit new at this whole vice president position thing.”
Forbes currently attends the University of Arizona in Tucson as a J.D. Candidate inside the institution’s James E. Rogers College of Law.
Shareef explained the reason he did not put his name on the original letter submitted by Forbes is because he did not want to get involved with any controversies. Once the request from Forbes did not publish, he then became comfortable submitting the op-ed himself without Forbes’ name as an author.
Shareef said they should have put both his and Forbes’ name in the second submission despite only Forbes’ name being present in the first submission.
ASNMSU committee member • May 5, 2019 at 11:07 PM
Shareef is a terrible person. He plays politics with students by manipulating rules. He made the entire ASNMSU dirty. He interferes in the GSC meetings and elections. He exploited the whole system to got his wife awarded. His wife also used the GSC money to travel home country by giving a workshop as a reason. I have even heard that being a TA, he manipulates grades of middle-east students for money.
Sad situation at NMSU.
Anonymous • Apr 24, 2019 at 10:42 PM
I’ve heard many worse things about Shareef and him conspiring against President Emerson. Announcing it before it was even a topic of debate to many students on campus.
Anonymous • Apr 24, 2019 at 4:42 PM
This shows the underbelly of the impeachment. Be very afraid of people who feel more important when they are destroying others.
The truth will never come out.
A National acclaimed professor dies. But reliving a sad thing is more important
Very sad day for NMSU
anonymous • Apr 24, 2019 at 3:25 PM
What did ASNMSU do to the Round Up? Gonzales seems to have a vendetta against them, and is now attacking them for wanting to respond. This butthurt journalism is pretty funny but also embarrassing haha.