Bored with VUWSA

I am bored. Throughout this year, I have observed and taken part in (on the extreme periphery) an incredible amount of political in-fighting in the Students' Association, mainly between the left and right wings.

Today I heard that Andrew Tees has resigned as the President. My initial reaction was one of surprise, then I felt bored. If Tees resigns - so what? What effect will that have on me? Will my life be radically changed? No! As far as I'm concerned Tees' resignation is just another episode in this petty, childish, boring, boring, boring saga. No doubt the Politicos will be discussing this intrigue and its ramifications for weeks to come.

Don't you, on both the right and the left, understand, that there is a large majority of students who just don't care? All they want is someone to do the work of the association and to do it well. No wonder apathy is rife. Why should I concern myself in an association with leaders that, on the surface at least, seem bound up in their own little political world.

Okay, so they represent me. So I should get involved and change things. I would like to take part. I would like to get involved. But this continual in-fighting about things that, to me, seem irrelevant to the business of the Association, is so off-putting. I just can't be bothered. There are so many things happening in the world that are important, that we could be doing something about. The Education Fightback campaign is ample evidence that students are more than willing to get involved in things that effect them, or that they feel strongly about.

Instead, we have to wallow in such irrelevant issues as the reforms to the Constitution, the threat from the left (Salient Marxism?), the threat from the right (Saxby — who is that man anyway?). It's boring, boring, boring. I'd rather go watch Days of Our Lives.