I woke up this morning to find thousands of flyers scattered all over Sorority Row. The flyers were anti-Unite Party in their message and excessive in their nature. From what I understand, these flyers were all over campus in massive quantities.
I’d like to consider myself environmentally friendly. What I saw today was hundreds of sheets of nonrecyclable paper thrown around campus like garbage. Would one larger flyer not do the trick? Instead, the Student Alliance party saw it fit to waste resources. Maybe that’s what they meant when they said in the debate Wednesday that they would go the extra mile. I wish I could believe it when Ben Cavataro and Rafael Yaniz say that they want to be sustainable. It seems like they just want to use that word as a campaign tool.
As much as I resent the outrageous environmental waste, I resent the message of the flyers even more. What I noticed in the debate on Wednesday was that the candidates of both parties had something in common: In their answers, they both talked mainly about the Unite Party.
The Student Alliance party’s campaign and candidates are so viciously negative that it brings me to wonder what inside of them makes them so angry. I try to find the good in everyone, but I’m having real trouble with this one.
I remember the Orange and Blue Party campaign in fall. I remember waking up to find “I voted” stickers thrown in the bushes on Sorority Row to try to discourage Greek turnout. When police attempt to catch serial killers, they look at what they call the modus operandi or M.O., which is the way the individual goes about achieving his or her goals. I look at the M.O.’s of the Student Alliance party and the Orange and Blue Party, and it is painstakingly obvious that they are one in the same.
Orange and Blue Party 2.0 is trying to run a campaign that smears the Unite Party’s record of positive and tangible results on this campus. I am a Unite Party member. I am a sorority girl. I am also a human being, and I am deeply hurt by the Student Alliance party’s seemingly inhumane rage toward my community. I wish they would run this campaign about them not us.
