Sat 3 Feb 2007
Rien n’y fait, menace ou prière. L’un parle bien, l’autre se tait.
Posted by Jeff under Jeff's ThoughtsYeah…I know…it’s been a long time…It hasn’t been a priority.
Work’s been going well, been sick quite a bit, had a few subconjunctival hemorrhages, got acclaimed for Student’s Council for next year, broke my van, thought it was fixed, still broken, and I’m living with Kyle Wright. That catches you up a bit.
Either way, my focus of the past week has been the Feds election. I wrote a summary of experience and platforms for each candidate for the Iron Warrior and interviewed a majority of them. Based on my evaluation of the platforms, experience and interviews, as well as the EngSoc forum I will be endorsing the following:
President: Kevin Royal
VP Admin/Finance: Arthur Chan
VP Internal: Faraz Warsi
VP Education: Jonah Levine
Senate-at-large: Renjie Butalid
Now as many people will note, most recently the Editor-in-Chief of Imprint, much of the Feds election is based on popularity/personal friendships. Factoring this in, as well as how they are doing on the Facebook election race, here are my predictions for the actual results of the election.
President: Kevin Royal
VP Admin/Finance: Del Pereira
VP Internal: Darcy Higgins
VP Education: Jonah Levine
Senate-at-large: Renjie Butalid
I do hope I’m wrong about VP Internal and Admin-Finance, but that said, at least there is no incompetent candidates in the lead this year.
Currently Listening to: Finlandia - Jean Sibelius
Random Wikipedia Article: Intelligent Falling
February 8th, 2007 at 11:50 am
While you might feel that everyone would be able to do a good job, Del Pereira’s platform is a little disturbing. That and no one who campaigns the way he does should be allowed a whelk’s chance of getting in.
February 8th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
What particular details do you find disturbing? What about his campaigning have you noticed as being wrong?
February 10th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Giving feds controll of the faculty C&D’s seems like a really bad idea. ‘It ain’t broke’ right now… and the benefit is sketchy at best. (Del’s sketchy VPAF plans)
February 11th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
He strikes me as being rather narrow minded. The fact that I am virulently opposed to his plans doesn’t make them necessarily scary, but the fact that he doesn’t have a lot of them, and that they seem to focus just on food is odd.
The posters I’m complaing about are the ones with the picture of female hands tugging at his clothing. It’s not a lot worse than some of what goes up around campus, but it’s not election quality material. While the election might turn out to be a popularity contest, he really seems to be trying to play it as one with those posters.