EDITORIAL: ELECTION TIME IS WASTED TIME

If you participated in Thursday’s election, congratulations, you just wasted microliters of ink, and I’m sorry to say your vote didn’t count. Overtime, students have clamoured for a student’s union which we all know will never happen, at least until Bowen changes its name. The Bowen Baptist Student Fellowship has been the replacement for the widely entreated students union and as far as the university is concerned, the body is just a bunch of students who were selected to make the BBSF team complete.

The election process is so unfussy that no student actually gives a shit about how it goes, Thursday for instance was one of the nosiest and most rowdy day I have ever seen the chapel be, the first being when cafeteria tickets were distributed during Christmas carol. Joseph Stalin once said “it is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything” 

Why tell that man to type that list? Why allow the photocopier make that much copy? Why make the ushers collate paper that could have been used for other things? Why waste quality time that could have been well used by pillars communication? As minute as they sound, the stakes were high. The Chaplains know well who they want to work with and the election parody was just another act of feigned high principles.