Dear Editor,
It seems that the SGA slates are spending much more time and energy defending themselves against political blunders than they are expressing their plans and concerns for their respective offices. SGA slate elections are always a three-ring circus of errors and mishaps, and now the inept student politicians have taken it upon themselves to bother the student body with their various problems.
The whole "he said, she said" routine seems a bit immature for a college setting, and I can guarantee that the students at Ball State University have more on their minds to worry about than whether someone called someone else a name. I just hope that the SGA slates come to the realization that in the "real world" if someone offends you, the chances of getting a public forum to express your mental anguish are next to nil, and the chances of most people caring about it are even worse. I think the famous writer Helen Keller may have been talking about our system of student government at Ball State when she said: "Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum."
I hope that the SGA senate will not remove Ms. Keller from any position for speaking her mind.
If the SGA is worried that this issue may create apathy among the students, then it is correct. Student apathy for the political process at Ball State, however, has been on a downward spiral for a number of years, and rightly so. This is just one more reason for students to save their vote for something that actually matters.
Michael Gant
sophomore
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