Top Five Ways to Help Your-SG Win
In the spirit of High Fidelity I present to you the Top Five Ways you can help Your-SG get elected. In order of importance:
- Vote here. And tell all your friends to go to sg.uchicago.edu to vote. Harass them. They'll thank you later (really).
- After you vote, find someone from Your-SG (we'll be in the McCormick Tribune Lounge tonight from 7-9!) and get a sticker or a button to let everybody know you voted.
- If someone sends a goofy e-mail to your House or RSO listhost saying vote for the other guys, reply and debate them! This is an open process and we need debate about the ideas each Slate brings to the table. Point them to the blog, mention that we came up with the all night study space in Reynolds thing first, just talk about the ideas.
- Announce the election is happening in your classes. Get people to remember this is going on.
- Casually ask everyone you know if they've read the Maroon's insightful editorial. Act shocked if they say no.
We really appreciate the help. It's been a fun couple of weeks getting this blog up and hearing from students about ideas or misspelled words on the posters. Hopefully you've had as much fun as we have. In a couple of days it'll all be over, so put in the extra effort to make it all worth while.
Thank you and now please enjoy Jack Black:
6 comments:
Speaking of High Fidelity it had occurred to me that Scott kinda looks like John Cusack...
haha i've known scott since 9th grade and you are probably the 5 millionth person that's said that. yes, yes he does look like a young john cusack. and they act the same like 75% percent of the time.
I'm a first and was told that an RA in my dorm came up with the idea of the all night study space in the reynolds club.
why are you taking credit for it then? the other slate is openly saying that it's not their idea, but one that a student gave you both to use.
in response to comment above: i'm not from the slate but i like what they're doing. this slate says openly that everything is not their idea. the point of their slate is reflecting what students what, thus the open communication lines and easy way of contacting them, etc etc. everything on their platform is a culmination of their effort in hearing students and getting ideas from students, they're not taking credit for it, just reflecting what kids want. it's a group effort: students and the slate come up with the ideas and the slate takes the best ones and put them into action. they want to hear YOUR thoughts and put it into action, not make up their own without listening to others. anyway, an all-night study space in reynolds is a pretty simple idea that i'm sure many people have thought up of.
To respond to the above comment, the idea was brought to us by Hilary who said it came out of conversations with her RA (who's hopefully your RA too).
Why I knocked the other Slate for using the idea was that I hadn't heard them discuss it until after we had posted it on our blog and talked about it at the debate.
We had explored the idea and talked with administrators about the feasibility of the plan before putting it on our platform and I don't think the other Slate has done this yet.
If you notice we don't strictly advocate for moving the study space because of three hurdles that would have to be overcome. They are:
- Putting good computers/printers in McCormick Lounge to match what the Reg and Crerar have already.
- Hutch and McCormick are on a floor with only a womens bathroom, it'd have to be changed.
- There is not enough electrical sockets/lighting in Hutch to make it a great study space yet.
Our platform advocates making an all night study space that works and balancing the cost of remodeling Hutch with the cost of upgrading Crerar is something we'd have to consider.
Really it is a lot like what the above poster said, we get ideas from a lot of people and then explore their feasibility. And I'm sorry I didn't make it clear what I meant when I said we had that idea first.
ok, cool
thanks for responding.
Good luck with the rest of the campaign.
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