Blood from a Stone

During the final drive at the end of the year, lots of stories need to get artificially wrapped up. We're still students and have exams and papers to work on all while trying to keep up with articles that might come up.
That's why our editor in chief Matthew Parrino was so excited when Sikander Khan reached out to us to answer some questions. In an electronic conversation, Khan told Parrino to come up with 100 questions to ask about the entire Virtual Academix scandal.
So we reached out to you, on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, trying to hear what you wanted to know from the former SA Treasurer. Most of your concerns were our concerns too. When did he learn of Virtual Academix? Why would he resign if he didn't do anything wrong?
The list goes on for 98 more questions that we took from students' responses on social media and many that we formulated on our own. Without a doubt, it would have been one of the most rigorous interviews we've ever conducted at a distance.
Considering we now know that the owner of Virtual Academix knows former SA president Viqar Hussain, answers are needed to untangle a story that is turning shadier by the day. We know that Hussain almost always meets with incoming SA e-boards. Khan most likely had met Hussain well before the Virtual Academix deal.
Unfortunately, it won't happen. Unsurprising to anyone following this entire tornado of incompetence, he's dodged the questions again. We're starting to believe that he takes legitimate pleasure in deceiving people.
It's not simply that he's ignored us. That we somewhat expected, being as he's not going to be in the country in a month. In reality, unless criminal charges are filed against him and he's forced to stay in the U.S., he's going home.
At this point, it's like getting blood from a stone.
What incenses us more is the sheer arrogance. We told him plainly that there is a hard deadline to publish his statement. After today's issue, there will be no more until July. He will be long gone by that time.
Instead he has the nerve, after all that he's done and all the garbage he's saddled this university with, to tell us that he doesn't work on our deadlines.
We're sorry, Sikander, but if you want to say something to the student body you damn well do prescribe to our deadlines. It's a fact of life, publishing is going to end very soon and the voice of the student body will be silenced for a season.
Surely he knows that, and he's probably banking on that to avoid any further shame. Khan continues to avoid the will of the student body, even though it's evident that we need and want the answers now.
Then he has the arrogance to tell us how we're going to publish the information he gives, even going so far as to try and get us to sign a document that forces to present the information his way. Sorry, buddy, journalism doesn't work that way.
We sincerely wished we could answer some of these questions for you, especially for seniors who have been soured to the SA over the past few years. It's imperative for the questions to be answered so the school and SA can move forward and figure out how to fix the problem.
You can't repair something correctly if you don't know what's broken. Without more information, nobody knows how the Virtual Academix deal was forged, and nobody knows how much SA Vice President Meghan McMonagle was involved.
The clock is running out. Will we be left with questions or answers? Only one man can answer that.