The Government of the Student Body is like feet on fish – not all that necessary. It allows students who feel like pretending to be important to do so. Usually they are the same type of people who run for political office – the type who are incompetent in that office and only want the perks and power. The difference – it’s worse because there is no power. It merely pretends to give a voice and a few unimportant decisions to students.

Zaal Tonia’s comments as he departed office were obviously a joke, and even if there were some malice behind it, I have to give him some style points. If his comments were in the U.S. Senate it might be different. He tried to bring a sense of reality to an organization that is an absolutely useless, self-indulgent organization of resume padders too obsessed with censure bills.

The worst thing a student can learn in college is to be too serious or to take themselves too seriously. The world is serious enough on its own without us making it more serious.

I commend Tonia in attempting to show the GSB that life is more than sitting at senate meetings or following Robert’s Rules of Order.

Ben Kalkwarf

Senior

Physics