By Ng Eng Kiat
Malaysians are living in interesting times. In a democracy where we become democratic once every five years, the buildup to the next orgasmic democratic moment, i.e. elections, in our history cannot be less exhilarating.
For us students, campus polls offer a training ground for democracy every year but sadly, we find ourselves increasingly desensitised when it comes to preserving, much less feeding, that basic responsibility of ours. We are so often told that “politics is dirty” and somehow forget democracy isn’t, nor should it be, dirty.
For the casual observer, campus polls might be a pointless, almost meaningless, fight between highly charged political infants. Some would say these students are but chess pieces on the larger national chess board – representing not students’ interest, but serving, with utmost loyalty, their political idols. It really doesn’t get any more ludicrous than reading that the most prestigious university in the whole of Malaysia this September conducted a “SULIT” survey asking students to rank their favourite “personalities” in a compulsory form. Continue reading ‘Campus polls irrelevant… Not!’
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