TO THE EDITOR:
As a recent graduate of the University, I thought that I had left many of the things that irked me — such as annoyingly over used terms like ‘innovation’ — in the past.
Unfortunately, I have a Facebook account and a good portion of my friends are current Tar Heels.
Thus, I cannot seem to avoid the Student Body President election, which in my opinion is the bastard child of the seven deadly sins.
In spite of this, the unique twists that this year’s race has produced are impressive. Nevertheless, I am disappointed in the lack of vision our university’s brightest office seekers possess.
In the time it takes these upstanding young students to craft a platform for themselves, they could have easily been well underway with the implementation of their big ideas.
There is no reason the candidates should be waiting until their second semester of junior year to unveil “groundbreaking” ideas, nor halt pursuit of these goals should they not win.
The beautiful thing about UNC is that it has always provided an empowering atmosphere to students.
It is disingenuous for these young leaders to pretend that they are substantially different from their counterparts year after year as though any single election will ever make a change that is not already in the works.
With all that said: If the candidates want to be truly revolutionary in their innovation, they should dismantle the SBP and instead work to implement a Student Body Oligarchy— in all of its Carolina blue glory.
Tariq Luthun ’13
Chapel Hill, N.C.
