ams elections wrap-up (or why maxwell maxwell absolutely ruined our lives)

1. the list of media outlets that split the $8000 funds is interesting - the student and journalism school publications topped the list, while some earnest grassroots efforts nicked a few of the smaller prizes.   i am also sad that the radical beer tribune didn't crack the moola line.  perhaps their sexy candidate portraits were more fun for those involved in/who actively mock student politics.  whatever - this was still the most artistic, novel, and amusing take on the ams elections.    peter rizov may not have won, but this is going to be my desktop for the rest of my life. </creepy>

id like to know wtf the voter-funded media winners are going to do with their money.  for all the wah-wah about the mysterious processing of ams funds and how it is what causes voter apathy, it would be nice if we could find out what these folks plan to do with the $8000 that was supposed to inspire excitement.   

no, im not going to judge anyone who blows it on beer and dope.  the duncan-kearney media group did 1% the work that the other victorious (and non-victorious) outlets did.  i dont know if they got the memo... at ubc, the only socially-acceptable form of halfassed ams election participation is to dress real emo, claim youll throw parties, whine that the ams is invisible while collecting $14,000 in ams salary, and somehow decide youre saving democracy for democracy's sake. 

i dont know why critical voices were so much harder on duncan and kearney than they were on maxwell maxwell.  why does the fact he ran for office in a halfassed manner somehow put him on a more noble ideological plane than two dudes who entered the vfm just so their buddies would vote them some cash?  if anything, maxwell caused more voter apathy by embodying the  ambivalence.  he says he changed the tone of his campaign because “Being able to vote in western society is sort of that one thing which you have, which makes you a valid member of that society.” 

so, thanks to maxwell, we all had the lovely privilege to vote for ams president.  thank you, maxwell.  you let us choose between a student council mafia type and a non-serious candidate without a platform.  our choice was broadened to jeff friedrich by acclamation to jeff friedrich by formality. 

next year, im going to run for president.  if i feel like it.  ok. 

2. no surprises in the results, really.  i hear turnout was very low. i send laurel wreaths to the victorious.

maybe ill interview some of the vfm winners.  maybe i wont.  we'll see.

Comments

[fidel]

angela: in all seriousness. you need to run. i will do anything for your campaign.

ANYTHING.

bowel, fo lyfe.

[bza]

start a campaign to impeach him and then run yourself!

[ainge]

honestly, bza, what do you think this is... sfu?

[bza]

haha, that is how we do things around here.

[Steve]

i hope to get out of university soon (postgraduate studies notwithstanding) no matter who is AMS president. it's normal for Conservative voters amirite?

[ainge.typepad.com]

thats nice, steve, but academic advising is not one of the many services offered at this url.

[Peter]

I'm glad my insane picture pose cheered someone up :)