2008 Woodie Awards
Election Defection
Max Lux
Issue date: 11/4/04 Section: Op/Ed
Nov. 2 has come and gone, and honestly, it has not come fast enough. You see, unless you have been living under a rock for the past few months, pretty much since the semester began, the entire College has been abuzzabout one thing: the presidential election. This is a wonderful thing, of course, witnessing college-aged students actually willing and chomping at the bit to vote.
This political activism breaks the stereotype of our generatioas being predominantly apathetic in regards to political issues. While some will still get their political opinions from uninformed movie stars and singers, more often than not, I have seen an incredibly educated Bush vs. Kerry debate raging throughout GQ during the months prior to the election. However, I hear the same statements, over and over, watched and re-watched clips from the presidential debates amidst snickers at Bush's mannerisms or Kerry's suspected cheating.
This election has severed our once tightly-bound College campus into polar, bickering sides. How often have you heard a emphatic "Bush is a moron!" or "Kerry can't decide on anything? Mingled, of course with the whimpers of any Nader-sympathizer who rears their head at any social gathering. It's a great thing to see people being informed and giving a damn about anything that happens in the world, but when it is so thrust down one's throat it becomes tiresome, to the point that some get adverse reactions to even thinking about voting.
The media, biased or un-biased, is bordering on over-saturated with the latest slander and ill-informed opinion.
Many have chosen sides, it seems, based on popular preference amongst their circles of friends: hating Bush 'simply because', or regurgitating hackneyed quips like 'This is a pointless war!' Yes, that's quite well-known, almost to the point where the president himself is losing touch with his own conflict.
We have had tables, alternating in the same place between democrat and republican, in Seegers Union, each pleading for support, coupled with t-shirt sales, button sales and such a deluge of propaganda that it makes Pepsi look like a girl-scout selling cookies.
This political activism breaks the stereotype of our generatioas being predominantly apathetic in regards to political issues. While some will still get their political opinions from uninformed movie stars and singers, more often than not, I have seen an incredibly educated Bush vs. Kerry debate raging throughout GQ during the months prior to the election. However, I hear the same statements, over and over, watched and re-watched clips from the presidential debates amidst snickers at Bush's mannerisms or Kerry's suspected cheating.
This election has severed our once tightly-bound College campus into polar, bickering sides. How often have you heard a emphatic "Bush is a moron!" or "Kerry can't decide on anything? Mingled, of course with the whimpers of any Nader-sympathizer who rears their head at any social gathering. It's a great thing to see people being informed and giving a damn about anything that happens in the world, but when it is so thrust down one's throat it becomes tiresome, to the point that some get adverse reactions to even thinking about voting.
The media, biased or un-biased, is bordering on over-saturated with the latest slander and ill-informed opinion.
Many have chosen sides, it seems, based on popular preference amongst their circles of friends: hating Bush 'simply because', or regurgitating hackneyed quips like 'This is a pointless war!' Yes, that's quite well-known, almost to the point where the president himself is losing touch with his own conflict.
We have had tables, alternating in the same place between democrat and republican, in Seegers Union, each pleading for support, coupled with t-shirt sales, button sales and such a deluge of propaganda that it makes Pepsi look like a girl-scout selling cookies.