Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

I now return to talking about Frank, the freshman who wanted to run for Student Council president (and was denied), asking the candidates for president about their opinion on seniority causing division among the students.

The candidates did very well in denying his claim, saying they already had many friends among those who enrolled in the school after them.

But since he did not question the seniority of the candidates themselves but made it general, it just showed how out of touch he was. There will ALWAYS be older students and younger students in a school, except in the case of a school that is just starting with only one batch, which is not a frequent occurrence anyway. It is a reality he will have to accept, as well as thousands of students have come to accept it in all the schools all around the world. If there is resentment between the batches, it is a minority, because they realize they cannot do anything about it. One batch or the other could not be asked to leave the campus to cater to his request.

There were only two other questions after that, not so controversial, although one was from the housemate of George on School Spirit and having a better grasp on the division (showing how they assembled for the event, although that still wasn’t any measure of animosity between the batches). Then the other Commission on Election members gave the announcements for Election Day less than 48 hours later.

The first day of the eighth week of classes, I again had to give an alternative class to my students in Electromagnetic Theory because of an open student debate on Public Display of Intimacy that I was to help moderate.

Not surprisingly, three of the same people running for Student Council were there: VP Joseph on the pro side and President Mae and VP Carlo for those against.

It was also interesting to note that Mon was there with his girlfriend Bernadette – on opposing sides.

This is where Joseph shot himself in the foot, in terms of his chances of getting elected.

He started out mentioning the mother school and its policies when the panelists were asked to introduce themselves and give a short statement of their stand.

But when the resource speaker (from the mother school) gave their very detailed description on the matter, he backpedaled and said we are not the mother school, and we should not adhere to exactly their own rules, otherwise, what was the point of the discussion.

He also had very confusing emphasis on “limiting but not restricting”, which I would have pounced on if I were his opponent.

I twice tried to get the dialogue back on track by asking both sides to give examples of what they thought should be permitted and disallowed, but panelists started repeating themselves, and when the microphone was passed one side started reacting to the other before giving their own ideas.

I’ll have to finish this next time though. I still have Election Day to talk about, the Band Fest and the Field Trip. For now, class dismissed.