Notes from an aspiring intellect: Elections

Well hellllllooooooo cyberspace. Today's little bloggy blog is all about elections, yes elections. Boring? I think not! The reality is I used to think politics, well I didn't really even think of politics but when the topic came up I'd usually tune out and daydream. Now I'm not talking about politics on the global high national scale,I'm thinking local. University local to be exact. You see, a month ago I was an unknown the the students union. I was merely one of the 7602 students who attends UBCO . Yep, that's right, there are over 7500 students who attend this institution. Now that brings up another question, how on earth will all 7602 voices be heard on where the funding should go, what we need etc. That's where the students union comes in. Now traditionally students are politicized as rowdy party hardy students who get drunk all the time, and sleep with each other and usually end up like this:

Or this

The reality is that we aren't all like this. The other stereotype is the socially awkward student who has a pocket protector and glasses with tape. Sorry to all those guys who hoped university girls were easy sluts.

We actually care. The students union in particular is actually working to make your voice heard. There are the protests (Almost always peaceful of course)and the changes that student governments bring. In the case of UBCO the lovely new UNC which cost over 8 million dollars. What I don't understand is why everyone is hating. No government is perfect but there is nothing worse then people who hate on people WHO VOLUNTEER their time (countless hours) to try make the institution actually listen to the students voices. All in all its just frustrating when election time comes around all this hate comes out. While election are fun and exciting the overall percentage of students who actually vote is quite low. Less then 30% of students go out and vote, yet at least 10 people come up and outwardly hate on the events put on by the UBCSUO. I guess it's just enraging that people are so quick to judge and bitch when they do not practice their basic right as a student (you don't even have to be domestic!) as a citizen!