Student Body with a Purpose?
Tomorrow will be our annual Student Body Election. I just don't get politics nowadays. If it were up to me- just abolish the whole thing, it's not like student bodies really serve much of a purpose anyways (at least not the one here in Kursk).
Over here, we've had the KMSA Student Body for a long time now (Kursk Medical Students Association), and I've been serving as the newsletter editor for 3 years running (the 1st year as a sub-editor). And all through it all, I've so many things I wished I hadn't seen. Meetings in disarray, high-ranking committee members either turning up late for meetings or doesn't even bother turning up at all, bankruptcy, badmouthing… It’s like a play by play of the OC or One Tree Hill series down here in Kursk. At the end, it all seems like a joke to me.
Take this election for example; a month ago, it was supposed to be held on a Wednesday, but postponed last minute because students complained about how there wasn’t a proper election committee for the event. So an election committee was formed, and about a week later, the Chairman of the Election Committee passed me a some of notices, asking me to paste it up in my hostel. The title read:
'The Reopening Of the KMSA Election'
If you thought that was funny, believe me there those that were worse. I called the chairman, saying that as Malaysians, we have an image to portray, and it would be utterly humiliating to paste up that particular notice. Instead, I redid a copy and emailed it to him. Over here we have students from different nations near and far and I would be mortally disgraced to be associated to a country that pastes up notices saying they ‘open’ elections.
And the election was postponed one week, two weeks, three weeks… Now a month later, we’re finally having our election. It’s so big of a joke; half of the students already said they are not interested in it at all.
Over here, we've had the KMSA Student Body for a long time now (Kursk Medical Students Association), and I've been serving as the newsletter editor for 3 years running (the 1st year as a sub-editor). And all through it all, I've so many things I wished I hadn't seen. Meetings in disarray, high-ranking committee members either turning up late for meetings or doesn't even bother turning up at all, bankruptcy, badmouthing… It’s like a play by play of the OC or One Tree Hill series down here in Kursk. At the end, it all seems like a joke to me.
Take this election for example; a month ago, it was supposed to be held on a Wednesday, but postponed last minute because students complained about how there wasn’t a proper election committee for the event. So an election committee was formed, and about a week later, the Chairman of the Election Committee passed me a some of notices, asking me to paste it up in my hostel. The title read:
'The Reopening Of the KMSA Election'
If you thought that was funny, believe me there those that were worse. I called the chairman, saying that as Malaysians, we have an image to portray, and it would be utterly humiliating to paste up that particular notice. Instead, I redid a copy and emailed it to him. Over here we have students from different nations near and far and I would be mortally disgraced to be associated to a country that pastes up notices saying they ‘open’ elections.
And the election was postponed one week, two weeks, three weeks… Now a month later, we’re finally having our election. It’s so big of a joke; half of the students already said they are not interested in it at all.
no benefits for us.
our friend won!
well, let's believe the best for this year's KMSA!
Johnny: I suppose so, there are some really good ideas thrown around already so far
lynn xuan: Yea, you're right. I never saw it that way...