It is only appropriate to look back on the achievements, failures, and general uselessness of the student council with the impending disaster that is the Spring fling. As much as I am tempted to take personal jibes at our elected representatives, I will not do so because it is not the members I have a problem with but the council itself. In fact, just for good measure, I would like to congratulate the student council for living up to the standards set by their predecessors. The council has managed to follow the status quo set by previous councils and no one can blame them for doing that. It is the accepted way and it has its benefits. But, one must not forget that just because something is tradition and is accepted, that does not make it right.
If holding the arbitrary power of deciding who gets to eat the cheap pizzas counts as an achievement, then I give the council a standing ovation. And while on the subject of edibles, who decided that it was alright to pelt us poor commoners with hard candy while we are forced to watch the whimsical shenanigans done in the name of school spirit; not to mention the hard wood bleachers that give you sudden jolts of searing pain in your buttocks. Maybe these cheap rewards are in place as a faux replacement for school spirit, but that would be suggesting that the student council is failing at it’s actual job of rallying support for our talented athletes. We couldn’t possibly have that, could we?
The real reason why I wrote this article was that I had purchased two tickets for the Valentines formal. I did not want to go, but the things one does for a pretty girl... Having bought the tickets it was announced that the dance had been cancelled. The reason provided was that the student council was devoting all their resources towards helping the Kailtlyn’s wish foundation. Later I found out that the real reason was that the student council simply couldn’t get enough people to buy tickets for the dance. I do not claim to be the most morally sound person but it bothers me that the school council would use such a noble cause as a scapegoat for their failure. One does not expect such inefficiency and underhanded bureaucracy from an arbitrary student body. I would ask all the students to speak out against this waste of school resources but my nihilist tendencies deny me that urge. I would only ask you if being pelted by candy and wasting time at abhorrently uninteresting assemblies is really worth having a mock democratic body of representatives?
