Monday, June 27, 2011

Where did our votes went?

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The following post is purely the author's personal opinion and some statements in this post came from reliable sources. For violent reactions and clarification of statement kindly contact the author through email at galaxyervin@gmail.com

How do we stop corruption in our society if we students do this? They say: Students/Children are the hopes of tomorrow. This is real of course, the con of this statement is that if the children of tomorrow knows how to do corrupt they will end up corrupt until they die.

What's the reason I have written this entry? Simple. In our university, I heard through some reliable sources that the university council and even the collegiate  council election was barred due to alleged stratagem of the winning party. I won't go to the details of what exactly had happened due to the fact that my sources didn't specify the details also. All I knew (from my reliable sources) that the petition of the loosing party was thrashed by the Student COMELEC of the university (Commission on Elections for all of you people who don't know the meaning). So the loosing party went to the Magistrate of the university and reversed the decision of the Student COMELEC. After hearing the news, it raised my eyebrow. The magistrate supposedly put the loosing party into power removing the elected personalities of the other party in just a matter of days. WITHOUT CONDUCTING PROPER INVESTIGATION AND EVALUATION and PUBLIC(Students/university) KNOWLEDGE of what had happened. Who will not raise their eyebrow/s if they hear this kind of news?

In my assessment, this is another case of corruption in the system. In my interview to some random people and also to some of my friends, they voted for the winning party and they can't believe what had happened and how fast the processing of the decision went. So I'll tell you, I voted for the winning party because I was able to see their capabilities in collegiate and university-wide scale. The candidates of the loosing party were young and not even involved in collegiate organizations. Based from my experience from the other year's election (this is on the collegiate level only) the elected student leaders were inexperienced and are far behind that what I expected of them. I was disappointed in their performance during their entire reign in the collegiate council. Ordinary students won't be able to feel their in-capabilities and inconsistencies but only those people who voted them by heart and have put a basis on what a good and consistent performance was. I am not saying its purely me. Trust me, there were lots of them who got disappointed.

Corruption might be a strong word but this is the only word I can put to those series of events that took place with regards to the election of the collegiate council and university council student-leaders.