Voted for 'None at all'
By Chris Avery
First year English
March 18, 2009
As my Grade 12 physics teacher said to me, “We are all mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed horse [feces].” I voted yesterday, and I’m quite willing to admit I voted ‘none at all’ for all of the candidates. I have a quite sound and reasonable explanation.
Why would I vote for someone where I don’t even know what their position is? It’s not like voting Liberal or NDP, at least there you have a somewhat coherent idea about what those candidates stand for. So on Tuesday of last week, I approached the UWSA office to obtain reading material on the candidates for presidency.
When I asked whether they have any brochures or websites I can go to, to view the candidates’ positions, the receptionist had no idea what I was talking about, and quite gladly put me on a wild goose chase to find the CRO or DRO. I said ‘Alright,’ and agreed to further pursue an already annoying and soon to be cumbersome adventure.
I advanced into the UWSA Clubs room to find the current CRO, Naaila Sangrar. During my visit I asked a few small questions like where I can find any material on the candidates, and how I am suppose to know who to vote for without this information?
I was answered with stern and curt, almost practiced, answer. No. She basically told me we don’t have any information for you, and further went on to say that, the purpose of the debates, held earlier that week, was to inform the student body of all the candidates’ positions.
Well let me tell you, I went to one of the debates and I don’t understand how it is possible for the UWSA candidates to serve their positions to the majority of the student body when there were less than 100 people in attendance at the debate. I did not bring this up, with more possible discussion on the matter, with Sangrar as I was faced with limitless annoyance, almost like you would see in a discrete and power hungry person of royal heritage.
My point here is to identify how I am encouraged to vote for others and opinions we know nothing about, and continue to smile and be contentious with the poor decisions of the UWSA. How our increasing tuition rates are funding a society, under great speculation with a large percentage of the university community, and how we can ever expect great things.
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