Let's Try This Again...

Guelph University Student Union is the living evidence that student governments are a joke. They not only don't know what gov't is, they don't know why they are at university!(That would be pursuit of TRUTH and development of character while BROADENING their knowledge of the world .)

Every year, fresh faces must learn the hard way what it means to live in a democracy. What freedom means. What responsibility means. What being an adult is all about.

Unfortunately for student unions across Canada, developmentally retarded 'adults' who spend their next 20 years after their mediocre B.A. as paid 'researchers' for student unions, often also don't know these things. They have never graduated from the NDP youth corps into real life.

Truth, reason, fairness, reality - all foreign concepts to these individuals. Whenever the radical feminist lobby calls them up, they run to serve, drooling with conspiratorial anticipation of their rewards in liberal heaven. Never mind that 'liberal heaven' is an oxymoron. They don't know that either.

As a former student politician,(ancient history!) present at the formation of the now infamous CFS, I can attest to the adrenaline affect of being up against 'the man'. We actually spent most of our time on funding, not persecuting other students ( I declined to participate in the 'women's caucus', not being lesbian enough to really fit in.)

I know I sound harsh. I remember my frustration at the time, with outside groups trying to push their politics on us- the Marxist/Leninists who 'joined' in our protests at gov't house, the hate-filled feminasties - and frustration with the kids who couldn't care less about funding so didn't want to pay student fees. Frustration with gov't who ocassionally patted us on the head but mostly ignored us. I know.

Student politics is at best a learning experience for those involved. At Guelph, and other universities across Canada,its the worst. Its a TOOL for others' agendas, unrepresentative of the students themselves, and apparantly facist. (Unions used to leave 'facist' to the administration!) At least when you're dealing with funding, you know it will help all students. When you label some students as 'unfit' members of the community by 'outlawing' their groups and maligning their intent, you are being intolerant in the most facist of ways. You are denying them the right to use their own reason to determine their own beliefs. You are demanding conformity to YOUR beliefs.

In twenty years, half of those involved- perhaps more, will have entirely different perspectives on life, and LIFE. Student governments are a joke. A bad one.

Prolife students need to disassociate themselves from unions like that at the University of Guelph. Don't pay the fees. And don't pay the fees for the 'women's center either!

If you need help, call me. Really.