SU’s Version of Hollywood; SGA

“It ain’t for everybody,” according to rapper Jay-Z, who begins his and rumored wife Beyonce’s song “Hollywood.”
From the moment one arrives on campus, a change is noticed automatically, or has been noticed in past elections.
It’s in the faces of nearly every person one comes across: a bright smile, a concerned brow, and a sheet of paper, asking you to simply support this person on a certain date; it’s for the ‘greater good’ of students, they’ll tell you.
The campus landscape undergoes a change as well. Every empty piece of grass has been commandeered by a yard sign or billboard with the intent to implant a name in the minds of potential voters. The deeper the pockets of a campaign, the more elaborate the trappings are: pictures, color, neatness.
The Student Government Association elections are upon Southern University, and no one, not even the most unsociable of us, can escape it.
The Southern DIGEST has written countless articles and editorials about the importance of student leaders over the years, yet the only thing I’ve heard and witnessed to be of importance is who will bring the best act to Homecoming, who has the best signs and ‘name brand’ candy.
On April 14, we will need to choose a leadership that is a positive reflection of the university’s student body. Regardless of the lack of issues many students feel the elections lack, we still need to keep in mind that candy will not solve the retention problems of the school. Nice flyers will not suffice when enrollment decreases.
Popularity will cease to have meaning when children of St. Jude are depending on an entire student body.
I urge all candidates to run clean campaigns, because the positions you are running for aren’t lifetime offices; that position you may hold, as we have seen in recent events can be taken away. Ask yourselves, as you prepare speeches that I’m sure will preamble God, if your actions fit in line with your religious, if any, beliefs.
Do not let these elections come between your friendships, your bank accounts or your classes.
Student body: let’s elect those who truly have our best interests at heart. Or, at the very least, elect someone you believe can handle the job that, “ain’t for everybody.”