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

This school year I'm fighting for stricter guidelines in lab classes starting on time. It's bad enough that the students believe just because it is a three hour class that they can come in later than during a one and a half hour class and still be considered present.

Besides that there is a bit of confusion with the students of engineering who want to take up advanced computing being told it will not be offered anymore, and a new subject, advanced calculus – formerly just offered to computer science majors – being offered at the same time. So there is the assumption that one will permanently replace the other in their and future flowcharts.

Next, there are the irregular third year students (incoming fourth years) who, when the acting dean had not acted on their initial and belated request for opening new subjects, especially when a deadline was given to them, are now clamoring for at least one subject to be granted to that they will be able to graduate in the least number of terms possible. Why couldn't they have had that amount of foresight during the period of petitioning that as allowed them?

And they still have the air of their change of schedules being acted upon, in that the students are waiting for more subjects to be opened before they even consider the possibility of having their time slots shifted around, taking one for granted.

Right now it is also the planning session of the student council, the recognized student organizations and the volunteer groups (of which the election commission is counted).

I don't agree with the course assembly presidents (why don't they want to call them chairs to avoid confusion?) being appointed, although I did agree to it because they tapped people who lost in the elections and I don't want them to lose hope again if they had to run and face the potential of losing again. Is it better therefore to just take their passion as a given, and in some cases, again displace the upperclassmen?

If there is the case here of the students not wanting to follow their CAPS, then we have to think about reelecting them. Why appoint some and elect others anyway?

The R S O also wants to give to the Election Commission the position of overseeing (at the very least) or managing the voting in of the new officers of the different organizations, so that there will be no more appointments in that quarter.

I hope this means that in the next year everyone who is in a position to lead an organization will be elected, maybe even for the volunteer groups themselves.

Session 1625 wants power and position without the hassle of being chosen by the masses. Class dismissed.