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Dear Ateneans,
There seems to be some confusion here on the role of a student government. The student government is the quiet bureaucracy that enables visible participation. We provide the bureaucratic and logistical framework for the marketplace of ideas, and YOU, our constituency, provide the debate, the discussion, and the conflicting and innovative ideas that are the hallmark of a healthy democracy!
The Sanggunian is here to make these things possible, but that's all we do! No democracy can survive without an active and informed electorate. Do we have that? Geez, guys! You think the failure of elections is our fault? The failure of elections is the failure of the voter to vote! Ateneans, do not demean yourselves by shirking this responsibility in our next elections.
Visible participation is YOUR product. Not ours. If you're complaining that three’s not enough visibility, you need only look in a mirror to see who is to blame.
We can encourage you to get involved (and we're working out more effective mans of doing that), but the whole machinery of the Sanggunian lies dormant unless the students use it to make a difference. We are a tool that enables participation, not a substitute for your participation itself. Make us feel that you need us! Otherwise, the Gadflies, bless their anonymous hearts, will be right! If there were no Sanggunian, you would lack the tools to participate visibly in the running of our community.
Of course, if you're not interested in participating visibly in the running of our community, then the absence of the Sanggunian would not affect you at all, would it?
Sincerely,
Carlo Antonio R. Rivera IV
042720
IV - AB Literature (English)
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