Green disgrace, cool weather, tag-- you're it!
It's election season on the campus, and that means that candidates for student government and encumbents are destroying the Green. The large plywood signs have sprung up, and the parties are showing their colors.
The red party wants us to be assured, and they're claiming responsibility for great things that have happened on campus. The yellow party is promising to "Van Wilderize" the campus and displaying phrases and fragments that seem to have nothing to do with governance. The blue party has not yet made a visible appearance.
In this way, the red and yellow parties have shown that neither of them understands what students want in their representatives, but that doesn't seem to matter, because student government her doesn't seem to have power to do anything the students really want done. They spend the student activity fees, but from what I hear, they don't have power to put up signs (that's phys facs) or bring broader food choices (that's Chartwells). They can lobby these groups, but that seems to be all, from what i've heard.
There is an air of disenfranchisement among the students here.
The weather has turned cooler in the evenings, so I'm hopeful that the daytime weather will soon be nice, as well.
I've finished doing a tagging pass through my 850 entries. It took a long time to go through all those entries, but it also generated a lot of topics for discussion for me. I think some of you might be interested in looking at some of the different topics (http://skreyola.livejournal.com/tag/). Some of the more interesting tags include about my wife, insight, and something-profound-in-comments.
In any case, I want my friends to feel free to tag entries they see are missing a tag that applies. I added tags as I went through, so there may be some entries I tagged before I added an applicable tag. Or maybe some tags apply that I didn't think of putting on an entry. Of course, I don't want anyone to feel obligated to tag my entries, especially now that I've looked at every single entry for the purpose of tagging.
It is my hope that these tags will make finding a particualr entry easier and reading all the entries on a topic practical. So, you could easily read all the entries I've written on the subject of marriage or about the Brothers Karamazov.
I'm working on a repeat of my ideals list, and it's amazing how closely things match. :) I'll post it soon.
By the way, my lips now seem to be completely healed.
The red party wants us to be assured, and they're claiming responsibility for great things that have happened on campus. The yellow party is promising to "Van Wilderize" the campus and displaying phrases and fragments that seem to have nothing to do with governance. The blue party has not yet made a visible appearance.
In this way, the red and yellow parties have shown that neither of them understands what students want in their representatives, but that doesn't seem to matter, because student government her doesn't seem to have power to do anything the students really want done. They spend the student activity fees, but from what I hear, they don't have power to put up signs (that's phys facs) or bring broader food choices (that's Chartwells). They can lobby these groups, but that seems to be all, from what i've heard.
There is an air of disenfranchisement among the students here.
The weather has turned cooler in the evenings, so I'm hopeful that the daytime weather will soon be nice, as well.
I've finished doing a tagging pass through my 850 entries. It took a long time to go through all those entries, but it also generated a lot of topics for discussion for me. I think some of you might be interested in looking at some of the different topics (http://skreyola.livejournal.com/tag/). Some of the more interesting tags include about my wife, insight, and something-profound-in-comments.
In any case, I want my friends to feel free to tag entries they see are missing a tag that applies. I added tags as I went through, so there may be some entries I tagged before I added an applicable tag. Or maybe some tags apply that I didn't think of putting on an entry. Of course, I don't want anyone to feel obligated to tag my entries, especially now that I've looked at every single entry for the purpose of tagging.
It is my hope that these tags will make finding a particualr entry easier and reading all the entries on a topic practical. So, you could easily read all the entries I've written on the subject of marriage or about the Brothers Karamazov.
I'm working on a repeat of my ideals list, and it's amazing how closely things match. :) I'll post it soon.
By the way, my lips now seem to be completely healed.