The Lion’ sEe Eye On Columnists April 10, 2006 Verbal Fisticuffs Round II: Voting Pro: Dan Delaney As I've moted in ny previaus forays into partisan ceeate, the aly way to dae a govenmat is to use the tools it allocates to its citizas. Aly student of the United State's 29-year-old adninistration caret refute the molecular level of vot- io. It is the egivalatt to a red blood call in tte American collective body. In actively dosing rot to vote, aper- sn is fofeiting teir mle as a citizen. Ralistically, morwoters are giving wp a privilege that millions of humans cauld aly dream of having. Claims that voting in eleddas is iref fective ad trivial help reretate that mantra. By soreeding this theory, the poeatal voting body becares inef fede. Mly by utilizing the gooortnity pre- sented by thelr goveming body and moti - vating others in their castitaxy to te sae will tey be ade to pat their Of course my ggoonent will claim that this is all comm kowlede ad that I'm ignoring enormous faults embedded desp within ar electoral system. I will ke the first to adit that or system of putting rgyesatatives in of fice can be severely crippled by the antiquated postulates installed by ax retim's forders. These aras ae inteat in ay govenment. No constitution can ramin arrat ad fair permanently, ad in acer for it to ramin in ef fect it met ke fixed or "amended. In acer for the systam that the goathetic 0 early protest to be danced, they hae to play by te niles tat they are expected to abide. Tn saying thet voting will co nothing, they are deleting their opinion from the retiasl qoinian. I will ritoate; tee ae problans with oar woting systan. I beg you to dare than! Please! There are two paths to follow in dag - ing the electoral process: voting, or active - ly raxising apinst the United Stas (which mery times takes the form of vio- lax). Ipathy aids nothing but the conditions thet citizas claim so unfairly raaess them. Con: Amar Ganti Changing regimes, over - throwing tyrants, ar exchanging one gopressor for aoe? Thee ae all possible reasons to cast yar allot for the upcoming SGA electin here mm yor beloved Perm Stae Delaware County campus. Except for ae thing. , Voting an a caxpus of this size ad with a Uhiversity wrageed in miles of rad tae, yar vote hardly counts. Despite the provises mee by both parties, ad most likely you've oly heard of ae, these groxs carrot instill the daoes that they pravise they can. These electians, these groxs are a mere fae of the belief thet students cn help ding the sudats ness to fit Uhiversity policy. To make ary changes that these groups prarise, would be to unite (take control) all the clues oan carpus ad force them to dere their anal activities. Essentially do what Hitler did with Rrooe exept the gaxcide would ke the uniqueness ad freedan of the clus an campus. The parties anly dif fer by stating they'11 sinply do a better jdo then the other .W 1h these drastic dissimilarities it does ot matter who care aut the victor, the sae autcare will hagoen. In a capaion were it's the previous reign versus the IST club, exause me, "The Lim's Party,” the tue way to see wham will better lead this caypus to unfulfilled pranises will be seen at the dgaates held on Monday, Axil 10. I have mo reas to elise thet this year 's date will ke ay df ferent fram last year ‘s where the answer to each question was "We need more stu- dnt imvolvarent" and the reouttal "We ned more sbudent irvolvarent but we'll dD a better jd" aly fieled the nesd rot to Te. If the hardly seen Ble ad White Party actually wins, next year will be eactly the sae as this year. If tte oer advertised Lim's Party wins the results will be simi - Bs 7 Tt would be better to carbine both rar - ties to create tte Bhie ad White-Lion Party ad take away the titles of wimer ad lesser. In the ed, ro matter wo you woe for, we all lose. Lion's Bye Featured Columist Amar Ganti beamed. him. them aut." Staff Profile: Tay Jooap started as a self described janitorial wader, hut after seven years of service to the caapus, students feel like they know him better then thet. "T feel good cause I know them an a first rare kesis, " he Tocopo is tall ad a Burt Reyrolds kind of handsare, without the sour attitude or nustade. When asked why he ard the students get alag so well he said that "they kesp me youg." Tay loss NAR, of buming netal, br te Jos o Dice pasion: Pan Stee Delaware County. "This is a close nit comunity, I neck a lot of positive frieds, " with mary of those fries caning to him for a quick "sp tn" or even advice. "If they asked ne things, I hoe I mete a little dif far- "T like cars crachin' ad the swell Easy going ad a kidder, Tocao wauld, at the very least meke a lasting impression. But that doesn't meen the “histling while you worker” doesn't have a serious side to "I'm the kinda persm wo dn't want credit," he said with his Mya Lisa snirk sliding away, 'T just wat to kelp Suddenly he locks into the distance like thet guy fram Seinfeld whenever that Eagles song care on. "T would just hope thet whoser I help,” freed itself fran an eperiacad ad grateful ge, sn helps another when they get ny ace.” a sirgle tear "that per-
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