(Medyo naninibago ako ngayon sa muling pagiinternet ko sa mga comlabs ng Main. Currently live from one of these labs in 3rd floor Benilde Hall, CSB Main)I only knew about a general election in CSB last week when posters of candidates from one of the parties (either BAKAS or PUWERSA) began appearing ONLY in the SDA Caf and nowhere else in the School of Design and Arts building.
I was kinda expecting that they'll do their campaign in SDA door-to-door in many of the classrooms of the building some sort of a miting de avance inside one of the major hang-outs in the building, beyond Plaza Villarosa (which is in Main).
Unfortunately, news of an election was not well spread inside all week. I only found out that it was already election time when a voting booth was established at the SDA lobby.
As a concerned and patriotic student of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, it's kinda my duty to vote for the new set of officers so I said "What the heck, I'm gonna make my voice heard..".
At first, I thought the election is going to be like last year when many of the booths were both manual and computerized in terms of voting procedures, especially when a PC was set up in the booth I was voting in a while ago in SDA. Sadly, according to the girls manning the booth, a web domain was not created in time for the computerized voting so who ever was running this election (this year;s SC) had no choice but to opt for manual voting instead.
I asked them (I assume they're SC officers) on how come there wasn't much publicity promoting the school election (which should be a big thing in every school you go to). They told me that they weren't able to announce beforehand of the then upcoming miting de avance (which happened last Wednesday in Main) in SDA. No wonder the students of Pablo Ocampo didn't notice that there was such happening on the other building found in Taft.
I also aired my concerns of what seems to be an utterly lack of campaigning on the part of the parties vying for positions to the two ladies. First, they [the candidates] did tried campaigning inside the classrooms found in SDA [based from a reliable source] but looks like they didn't do the same to the other "classrooms" found inside the building: computer laboratories, animation studios, and other non-traditional classrooms where students could be found most likely there.
Second, they may have put up posters on the windows of the SDA Caf but they weren't there physically to personally promote their respective campaigns as compared to what I saw in Main yesterday where a member of one of the two parties were distributing pieces of paper bearing the face of one of their candidates if not the whole party line-up.
The SC officers-to-be should know first hand that in order to win votes from the students, they have to be WITH the students. Heck, I don't even know who they are, what their campaign agendas are, nor their reasons why they wanna run the school.
Compared to last year, student life was still centric to Main but because of the seemingly-developing isolation brought by the presence of the SDA building and the growing autonomy and vibrancy of student life found in there (compared to AKIC which contains mostly classrooms and kitchen labs), looks like Main being the driving force to all Benildeans is starting to wane.
Maaga pa lang, napapansin ko na unting-unti na nahahati ang mga estudyante dala ng kulturang dinadala ng tatlong bulwagan ng eskuwelahan. Sana, habang maaga palang ay magkaroon ng agarang action ukol dito bago mahuli ang lahat.
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On an election-related note: For those who have read my past coverage of last year's election, I truly apologize for the grave erratum I've commited and failed to correct for over a year. Last year's SC candidate, Jean Kim, was not running for VP for Concerns, nor the other VP positions but was actually running for president which he eventually won over two other candidates.
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Unrelated note: March 28 is Earth hour from 8:30-9:30PM Philippine Standard Time as well as cousin Kuya Bobon's graduation day in UST.
March 28 will also be the day that little brother Jorge be graduating high school (he's going to UST by the way). Jarren, Kuya Bon's brother is finally making the jump to high school by finally going to his final rites as a Grade 6 student tomorrow.
Tomorrow is also the last day I'll be be doing community service in Baseco Compound in Port Area/Intramuros, Manila (Gonna miss teaching the kids dearly) as well as the day I mark my two years of high school graduation.
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