UNCG Student Government Election Time Again
I love this time of year, as the days get warmer and the sleeves get shorter, some UNCG student's thoughts turn towards campus politics. The goal of student politics of course is not to hold power but to draw attention away from it. It is really a cute way of making students think they have power. They don't of course, but instead they get trained in how politics works in the real world. I suppose it is like in the military training without ammunition.
What makes this time of year so much fun is the campaining, the signs, the fliers, the meetings, the wild promisses for things that they couldn't deliever even if they wanted to. Every year just about every candidate says that they will fight to lower tuition and fees. That's like Bush claiming he can bring world peace to the middle east. That's like me saying I am going to change the shade of the color of Mr. Sun. There are forces in this universe that are outside of your control. Happieness comes from identifying those and accepting the situation for what it is. For me, I like Mr. Sun just the way he is.
I only wish I knew of some student candidate websites I could link here. It is interesting to see what is important to them, and what they think they have control over. Better still would be if I had a digital camera that I could take pictures of the campain posters and fliers. It is really an interesting exercise.
