Dear Queenie,
When an election took place at University of St. Martin the ballot box was left outside unmonitored for students to drop in their forms. The ballots were handed out randomly in various classes. No one documented how many ballots an individual received. A “special” night was held to announce the winners of this contest.
I found it to be unfair and strictly a popularity contest to feed individual egos. Do you think schools should allow such unregulated voting? I think people would have appreciated it more had it been a serious competition. Why would a student want to be rewarded for being “the student missing the most classes” or “the student who has the most money on their phone card”?
I find this childish for an institution of higher learning.
Queenie, what do you think?—Let justice rule student
Dear Let justice,
As I understand it, this “election” was intended all in fun, a spoof of serious elections and award ceremonies.
And I assure you, it was no more childish than the ways in which university students have been “letting off steam” and entertaining themselves for hundreds of years. You are probably too young to remember fads like swallowing live goldfish or cramming as many people as possible into a telephone booth. For that matter, are you old enough to even know what a telephone booth looked like?
After all, “all work and no play makes Jack (and Jill) a dull boy (girl)!”
