Student government elections at school are an interesting thing. At high school, it was competitions between which peppy, "we think we're so cool" leadership person could provide the funnest activities, with the winners thinking they were more important than they really are.

And here at college, where the student government I think has more power, the student body cares even less.

I think it may be a function of the depressed Tech population seeing little to be changed about our fate. The biggest complaints on campus (mean professors, lack of girls, rising fees) aren't going to be affected by which frat guy wins vice president. We have abysmal voter turn out rates and it's not too hard to figure out. How are you supposed to tell the candidates apart? The signs and flyers really aren't informative. No one I know personally was running except some guy that was in band for a single season and remembered the guy's capable of holding a trumpet really isn't enough of an endorsement. All I saw of real merit was the candidate's statements in the school newspaper in which they all said essentially the same thing.

So when someone sent to the band header this endorsement for one of the presidential candidates I was surprised at its simplicity and coherentness:

"I think someone else said that the other guy was a tool..."