The Editorial Board always loves when it gets the chance to call Student Government out on yet another thing it’s done that is stupid and completely useless.
And today is certainly no different than any other occasion.
We couldn’t help but laugh at the Student Senate’s newest installment of ridiculous resolutions with no point whatsoever.
For all of you who don’t know what that is, have no fear: A resolution is the Senate’s official opinion on something.
That’s right, it does absolutely nothing.
And on a side note, stop passing resolutions. They don’t do anything, and contrary to popular belief, no one cares what your opinion is.
Additionally, half the things you make resolutions about you have absolutely no control over. (The resolution that advocated of a two-state solution in the Gaza conflict anyone?
If the United Nations can’t even help, UF’s SG certainly won’t do anything.)
But seriously, you guys really passed a resolution talking about possible methods of campaigning in a sustainable way?
We mean, we get it; it was obviously a dig from both parties that were made at the other parties because of last week’s mysterious flier incident.
For those of you who don’t follow our SG election coverage religiously, we’ll give you a summary: Fliers with the Unite Party symbol and the word “obey?” written below the Unite symbol, which mocked some of Unite’s brainless drones, were placed on cars on Fraternity and Sorority rows. Regardless of who made the fliers and who put them on the cars, when it comes down to it, all of you are being wasteful.
Just take a short stroll along campus, and you’ll definitely see that a vast majority of your beloved fliers with your candidates’ mugs on them wind up in trashcans or on the ground.
That doesn’t seem very sustainable to us.
Furthermore, you all just wasted even more paper writing this stupid resolution and having a hundred copies made of it so you and your “frienemies” are able to discuss it and vote on it.
That doesn’t seem very sustainable either.
So instead of using your pretty, glossy paper, make some signs to hang in Turlington Plaza.
And if you insist on keeping the fliers, take a page from the Alligator’s book and use recycled paper or consider handing out those fliers near a recycling bin so people can throw them in there instead of on the ground when they inevitably decide not to read them.
That way, when students are done pretending to look at them so you’ll leave them alone, they can throw them in there instead of the trashcans.
We get that recycled paper isn’t the prettiest and is even a little dingy, but it works for us.
After all, more people are reading this editorial than your flier right now.
