Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

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

Today’s topic is something I don’t know if I will be placing in the kid friendly edition.

Last school year, the Commission on Elections, which I advise, declared that political parties running for seats in the Student Council should schedule their own Presentation of Platforms. This is not only because one of the parties is backed by an underachiever (who just happens to be not under-ambitious) that I wanted to see for once work for what they wanted, but that same person had, two years before, in the presentation of candidates set by the ELECOM, had his friends ask the candidates of the opposing party borderline-harassment and defamatory questions such as “How come [my friend] is the only one with a slide presentation? Is he the only one serious about his nomination? Why don’t you have prepared speeches?”*

I didn’t want to have a repeat of that occurrence. But this year, somehow the two parties, besides having a joint meeting to decide on their party colors, had agreed to have one schedule for their presentation of platforms.

The point there was that they needed someone neutral to introduce them of stage, and who – they thought - could be more neutral than a member of the ELECOM?

So what ends up happening? Just like two years ago, it’s my people - the students who are part of ELECOM, the ones who are only supposed to worry about reservations in the poll areas, who had extra work thrust onto them by the candidates themselves that we had initially said they should take care of.

At least according to the secretary of the Office of Student Activities who watched, the event was carried off without a hitch – meaning no shouting matches took place.

It did take longer than the one and a half hours first reserved, due to the question and answer portion, but then, someone responsible on the scene should have cut the proceedings short, and if each party had set their own one and a half hours to air their side, they would have had enough time for themselves.

Session 1539 lets others do the work. Class dismissed.

*On a side note, that question was thwarted decisively when the candidate for vice president answered, “I filed my nomination a month before the deadline” something the underachiever couldn’t say anything about because at the time, he only passed his forms on the last day of the second extension, typical behavior for the likes of him, and would not have been able to run if there were no extensions. Last year and this year, there were no extensions of the filing period, and this is marked clearly in the posters calling for candidates.