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.

I'd like to give just a few more details about the ongoing student batch representative elections.

Our initial idea for the elections is that it would be elementary or high school type.

By this I mean that at the start of each school year, during one of the first sessions of the school year, all the students in the room are told to vote for their class officers.

That way even the freshmen can look around at all the people who are in the same year level and in the same course and decide who they think looks like they will do.

This either means they will pick the one that seems most approachable (friendliest), or will do the most work for their causes, or the best looking, or most politician-like.

But somehow, someone told the appointed school assembly chairs that before their actual elections, they should already have a list of people who will run, and that these students should have filled out the required candidacy forms used in the other elections.

The problem with this is that filling up the form could already have turned off some of those who otherwise would have been willing to serve their batch mates.

Also, this means that since the assembly chairs approached the rest of their school about it, this means that the students probably thought that they could go to the polling place anytime, instead of being there for a real assembly.

As it turned out, I heard that there were would-be candidates who backed out at the last minute.

And for the whole school of business and entrepreneurship, failure of batch elections have to be declared because less than the required fifty percent plus one showed up.

Part of the reason for this is that a perennial candidate stepped up, who had lost in the last two elections.

He is already in his fourth year, and he still doesn't get the message that none of his fellow students want to vote for him. And if he is not to complain again about being cheated, then he has to hear this from their mouths (or hands) directly.

Especially since he could accuse that it's easier to cheat now that the voting is by computer.

Session 1653 doesn't care about who represents their batch. Class dismissed.