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Show Tfie Tfwrafcrfnnf 3 Cachectic Observatory BY STEVE YATES Monday March 4, 1985 Page 5 YL OLDE Flower Shoppe 27 North Main Street Cedar City Ut, An annual apolitical message 586-518- am glad that all this election business is over. I was getting awfully tired of seeing campaign banners and posters of grinning candidates with bold visionary eyes strewn about campus. Now, hopefully, things will return to at least a semblance of normalcy. I am surprised at one thing, however: they announced the winners. I had thought, what with all the secrecy surrounding the preliminaries, that they would just allude to which party members had carried away the spoils of victory. I cant say that Im happy with the election results, but then again, I cant really say that Im unhappy either. Actually, I dont really care. The only issue that I cared about (the Nuclear Free Zone resolution) was defeated. 4 I I suppose that I have no business talking about the elections, and certainly have no right to complain. You see, I didnt vote. What?! You didnt vote? Thats outrageous! Why not? Dont you care? Dont you know that by not voting youve thrown away your Good Show! Arsenic & Old Lace Flowers 10 Off. Opening Night Cast I COME IN AND SEE OUR NEW RELEASES: gfObo - right?! court-give- n These are some of the things people say to me when I tell them I did not vote. These are reasonable questions, and they deserve an answer of sorts. Let me tell you a story... My freshman year I did vote with good conscience. I did care about the politics of the school. In fact, several friends and I formed a school sanctioned party of our own. Those of you who have been here long enough may remember it: The Randomness Party. Naturally, we were quickly ruled out as clowns, despite the fact that we were fairly serious. My sophomore year I voted, as I did in my junior year. But then I began to realize that very few of the elected parties had done anything (despite their promises) that affected anything I did. Their promises seemed hollow in this light. Last year, remembering these empty platforms of candidates past, I vowed not to vote. Then one day, around election time, as I sat in my usual perch in the sun, one of the hopeful candidates came up to me and asked me if I had voted yet. My dander flew up quickly, and I said, No and Im not going to. He became morose and asked me why. I explained my empty campaign promise theory to him. He explained the error of my thinking my claiming, Well, yes that may have been true in the past, but that was those guys. Were different. His rhetoric was splendid. He convinced me that I was laboring under the weight of syllogistic logic. He convinced me to vote. For his party. I voted. His party won and now, this last year, things have been exactly the same as they were in the past. Again, I felt cheated I had voted in good faith, and it did nothing. Now they wonder why they and their little activities are surrounded by a pervasive attitude of apathy. Gee. Thats too bad, guys. It has always bothered me that when someone is not interested in someone elses ideals, they are labeled apathetic. This is exceedingly presumptuous, if not childish and dictorial. How dare they call me apathetic because I dont want to ride their train, or if my idea of fun is different from theirs. When a student body government expresses anger with the student body for preferring dance and parties to a seminar on cooking, then has the audacity to label them apathetic for this preference, something is wrong. That government is no longer serving the people. It is serving itself, and imposing its own ideas of what is good for the masses. One of the funny little things about life is that not everyone has the same goal. Some people want money and fame. Some people want to go into politics, and some people are content to just hang around. There is nothing wrong with any of these pursuits (as long as they dont cause violent crimes). What is wrong is that these groups often try to impose their ideals on another group. When this happens, the only result is prejudice and animosity. The accusations of apathy toward the student body for merely exercising its free will makes me sick. The empty campaign promises make me depressed. Because of these things, I do not vote. ! have stopped believing in the effectiveness of the system. I will not vote for that which I do not believe in, or that which has not proven its worth. Now Ill step off of the pedestal. Another reason I did not vote this year is that I seem to have misplaced my student ID card. This makes n me a now in this campus microcosm but thats OK. I know who I am. 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