On May 2 I logged onto the online voting for the Associated Student Government elections  and saw there were no choices whatsoever in the election.  I don’t want to generalize, but it seems like nobody at Mesa College cares about the ASG elections.

When I started to write this story I got the impression that I would be doing an opinion on each of the candidates. This quickly changed as I started doing my research.

I originally went to the headquarters of the ASG to get the list of competing candidates but eventually had to go online to view the actual list. That just solidified what I had already believed: Student Government is a joke.

To be fair, the ASG does help put together various campus events. Senator Joel Espinosa explained that events planned by the ASG are mostly successful. Espinosa was only able to recall one event, Green Week, which he would call, “not necessarily successful.”

Given that most of the candidates are running by themselves it’s hilarious to see the campaign posters lining the gate of the tennis courts as if the candidates were aggressively fighting off some sort of opposition.

What kind of system is this? Mesa College students don’t really have a choice, but I am not going to blame the student government, but instead the students themselves.

Espinosa said, “[In my time here] we have not had a complete senate.” It’s disconcerting that even with our huge campus population we can’t find 15 students worthy of this “Public office.”

We have to wonder why we bother with something that students don’t care about, because that is clearly the case here.

In this election there are only eight senators running for office, but that is not even the worst, Espinosa said that at one point only four senators ran.

I have nothing against the elected officials, but their positions have no purpose. If they can operate with less than a third of the senate it shows how inconsequential the whole system is.

Yes, we need student officials for students to have their say in campus affairs, but it seems like the student body are largely ignorant to the existence the student government.