What am I meant to do upon seeing this bizarre pile of adverts?
March 27th, 2009
It’s Student Election Time!
Actually, it’s not. Hasn’t been for a bit now, but the uninspired propaganda chalked onto the floor still haven’t completely washed away. The thing that gets me about student election campaigns is the pointlessness of it all: nobody has any real policies because none of the positions offer any real power, so voting decisions come down to personal relationships and advert quality, but since none of the candidates differ significantly, all the adverts are identical and none of them say anything. They just say ‘vote Jennie #1 for editor’ or something, with no reason offered for you to do so. Participating in this absurd farce is supposed to look good on one’s CV. I have no idea why.
I did not vote in the student elections.
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March 31st, 2009 at 02:53
I can’t help but feel that in many cases the ’student body’ are simply going through the motions of doing what they think they should be doing as students. It is as if they are Aping a time when student elections, and student protests, actually stood for something.
Now they just seem a little shallow and a little apathetic. Not that I’m bitter, but it sure is a shitty waste of paper.
April 6th, 2009 at 09:53
Most of the reasons listed above are why I don’t vote in *national* elections, never mind student ones.
May 5th, 2009 at 09:26
No, you’ve missed an important reason why you should be on the College Council. It’s so you can attend meetings which determine the future of your fellow –
…naah. Admittedly, I did serve on the college council during my student days, but this was more through accident than design. I ended up being one of the college’s official DJs (would play at college events, rather than radio).
This was simply because me and two mates were fed up with the music generally on offer and wanted something a bit ‘rockier’. So we stood for election, and as the only other candidate was RON (Re-open nominations), we pretty much sailed through.
We may not have had political power, but in terms of selecting the music for college events, I bet we made more of a difference to the lives of the students than most…