ELECTIONS and IMPERFECTIONS

It was bound to be personal, but it was not supposed to be dirty.

This year's Student Council Election is amazingly interesting with a lot of human drama and side shows. I was talking to Dennis the other night and we got into a discussion about judging and personal attacks. He said that we are in fact supposed to know these details regarding the candidates, it is for the voters to decide who to vote for and which facts are to be taken into consideration. It's a part of reality, we are all judgmental, we judge people by the things we know and find out about them and even if sometimes we don't want to be influenced by the unimportant information that we are offered with, we still get affected, whether we like it or not. For me, elections shouldn't destroy friendships, working relationships and shouldn't tamper with a person's reputation... it shouldn't be a means to creating animosity amongst people who can possibly coexist peacefully.

We cannot discount the fact that it is a competition, but competitions need not be dirty. If the elections will leave the studentry divided and broken, then it will not serve its very purpose. Elections are supposed to unify us, not disconnect us into apathy, once again.