I will not be voting in any McGill elections.

At this time of the year, students from all faculties, departments and student-run organizations are "campaigning" for positions for the upcoming school year. My facebook is daily bombarded with notification after notification, notifying me that "Bob Nobody" and "Jennifer Who-Gives-A-Shit" is running for 'internal' or 'external' something or other for AUS or MUS. Newsflash: your platform consists of absolutely nothing whatsoever that would actually be benefical to the student body, and you don't actually care about making a difference. The people running in these "elections" (and judging by my faceook there are about one-hundred and twenty positions for which people are running) the majority of them are only looking to add bulk and substance to their resumes and nothing else. These positions are not paid, they do not require any inordinate level of competence and once people are 'elected' to these positions, nothing actually gets done- their actual influence is very small. One girl who was running for some insignificant position for the AUS came into my anthropology class a few weeks back to "campaign." This consisted of her stating her name- which not ironiocally, I forgot- and spat out a few sentences about her "platform." She said something about promising to have the AUS branch out more to the Montreal community, if she were elected. That is quite possibly the worst platform EVER. McGill students, especially those coming from out of province or even other countries, do not give a shit about the Montreal community- just like the Montreal community finds us students to be a nuisance. Why would someone even propose that? If you're looking to gain support based on a thirty-second spiel to a classroom of students who probably are not listening anyways, why the hell would you not say something that would actually grab their attention? Something such as lowering the costs of the cranberry and lentil wraps at the Redpath cafeteria, or maybe firing the new white man who works at the Pita station, seeing as he NEVER gives me extra hot peppers? Students do not care about the community in which they live in so long as they are not being directly affected. The only thing that could possibly lend incentive for me to vote (and that has to do with the Montreal community) would be extending the hours of Deps in the ghetto. The Deps close at 11:00 pm every night of the week, and this truly does break my heart. Sour key cravings can hit at any time, and it is downright disappointing that I often have to wait until the next morning. That, however, is probably the only thing that affects students in the Montreal community. So please, do not pretend that you care about the city in which we live in when we all know that within that city, is the McGill bubble- our true community. Instead, try proposing something that actually affects us, such as the price of wraps as mentioned above, or having flex dollars accepted at Liquid Nutrition. Also, if you're ugly, why are you even bother to run? Good looks might catch the attention of students, but standing in front of an audience promising to do things that no one finds relevant or benefical, is not going to get you any votes. I will not be voting in any McGill elections because a)The people running suck and are only doing this to stack their resume, b)I'm too lazy to run, and remaining true to my bitchy tendencies, feel no desire to help someone climb the student political ladder and c)unless these people can lower the cost of tutition and the fruit bowls in the cafeteria, then they really have nothing at all to offer me.