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I am writing in response to Leah Glowacki’s article “Where’s the Substance in ASOC?” in last week’s issue. I seem to recall that as a first-year staff writer, I myself wrote an article much to the same purpose as Glowacki’s – condemning the ASOC campaign and election process for failing to require candidate speeches and having little more substance than a high school popularity contest where voters are forced to base decisions on posters, cookies and social cliques.
I would like to commend Glowacki, not only for her excellent judgement and, dare I say, brilliant opinion on the matter, but also for bringing up what I still think to be an important issue on our campus.I started the article I wrote almost two years ago by stating that I did not vote in the ASOC election and I was proud of it. Since that time, I have yet to vote in an ASOC election. I am still proud in that I refuse to cast an uneducated vote. However, I still maintain that the ASOC election organizers should make changes to the election process to allow voters to sufficiently educate themselves on the stances and intentions of candidates through required speeches.
When I first wrote the article, I received letters from previous Assistant Director of Student Life Kenna Cotrill and a student who ran for ASOC claiming that my concerns should be directed toward “voter apathy” and that ASOC had no plans to require speeches for candidates.
Almost two years later, I greet Glowacki’s article with support and a renewed conviction for this cause and creed – to educate the Occidental student body and relinquish it from the tyranny of oppressive social systems.
How many times must a first-year Weekly staff writer write this same article before action is taken?
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