Friday, 27 February 2004
 On USC campus yesterday, the democratic debates drew massive crowds to its streets. But as blow-horns signaled the debate commencement, the evening turned red as a panicked rush of cheering fans unwittingly trampled the poor remains of yesterday’s lesser-known election for student senators. Fortunately, the only casualties of the evening were the inanimate signs and banners posted throughout the week to arrogantly advertise the swelled heads of student candidates.
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Above: A staff member at USC unreluctantly removes the tattered remains of the Student Senate campaign |
The debates, falling in “Democracy Week”, followed a campus-wide effort to create awareness for the USC Student Senate. For the uninformed, the student senate is body of elected students who represent each class. With flyers making such promises as an In-and-Out truck every morning and free chicken nuggets, not an inch of the campus is unaffected by the legislature.
But all that changed when a far more significant election came to town. According to witnesses, the gore was immense. “Seeing those signs shredded to pieces underfoot made my heart swell,” claimed one onlooker. “What?” asked another, then answered, “Oh, thank God those’ll be gone.”
Most students, however, are much less affected by the event. They attribute this to the fact that the student government has had a bad rap in the last few years—actually, since its creation—due to general apathy. When senators tried to create interest last year by voting against the war in Iraq, they were only met with annoyance. One student civilian noted: “We didn’t vote for them to be our moral authority. They’re just there to get us more vending machines. Sheesh! We pay them $10,000 a year for this crap?”
During the debates, John Kerry was too involved with an actual election to note the irony of outshining the student election. As students outside pushed their campaigns for student senate president, Kerry only made a passing notice: “I don't fault George Bush for doing too much on the war on terror.”
Added Kerry, "I believe he [Bush, the President of the United States, the most powerful nation in the world] has done too little.”
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