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

Today’s student friendly version is the closest I’ve come to answering the criticisms I’ve heard (always third hand) about the student elections being rigged.

I know who the people (students and faculty alike) always pinpoint as being the origin of the accusations. It’s the same slacker student I’ve talked about before.

I guess it’s time to give him a name. Let’s call him Johnny Jr., JJ for short.

JJ comes from having a somewhat high position in the student council of his high school, but not the highest.

Students from the same high school that our other students have met are aware of his notoriety, and always have stories of how he promised the students, the teachers and the parents, to be on top of this or that event only to have it fail.

And just like in the maxim I quoted, he always blames it on someone else other than himself.

Coming here for his college, he initially wanted to name his political party after the one in his high school, and to run for the same position as the one in his high school (vice president). Why was this? Apparently, as his former classmates attested, to recycle campaign posters, banners and slide presentations.

I wanted to sent him to the discipline office last year for submitting his old CV from two years ago for last year’s elections, then changing it when it was posted by the election officials, without their permission. When all posted materials were stamped by Office of Student Activities, he went over the election officials’ heads and had his new CV signed by the OSAC director, who of course didn’t know what he was signing. But since he lost anyway, it seemed like beating a dead horse to charge him. After all, it would be the last time he could run, since he has less than one year left, excluding practicum.

He can whine all he wants to his classmates and teachers, few of whom outside his very small circle of influence believe him. And they eventually report it to me.

We can’t take action on hearsay, and I don’t want to have to use my “informants” as witnesses on the stand. So the ball’s in his court to come up with a formal complaint, which he hasn’t, for three years now. It’s all just shouting against the wind or some such metaphor of insignificant prattling.

Session 1565 has a big wake up call overdue in the world outside college. Class dismissed.