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We had the college faculty general assembly today. I told them about only four students running for the student council next school year, and all from one party at that, meaning the second party has no candidates. Of course everyone was disheartened, like I was.

But this is where we varied in opinions. A few of the more vocal faculty members suggested postponing the elections until the start of the next school year. But that would mean moving the leadership camp for the student council officers, as well as their setting of their general plan of action.

Personally, I would like the election to push through specifically because all the candidates need fifty percent of the student population to vote for them for them to win. If there is ever a time for the students to be rallied into action, this is it. They have to show their indifference to indifference.

Besides, I am confident about the students exercising their right to suffrage because there has never been a failure of elections before.

Of course some teachers are looking at this pessimistically, especially also given that the election is set for the Tuesday of Holy Week.

“What if most of the students are already going on their vacations with their families and cannot vote?” they say.

There will be more posts about this as the story breaks, such as how the candidates accept the recommendation.

@@ Continuing my discussion about movies, on the bus during the past week I was able to catch a highly blue-screened Japanese action (and by action I mean impossible leaps and weapons thrown to deflect other thrown weapons) historical movie. I remembered the names of the characters and researched it.

It turned out to be Goemon, about some sort of Japanese Robin Hood. For the effects alone, that really made it look like anime quality without being overly computer generated, it is worth getting.

Sadly, I think that the only way I could find this would be with the modern equivalent of the eye patches and peg legs.

@@ On another trip I also watched most of a B-horror film, which turns out to be titled Kaw, about ravens infected by mad cow disease that start attacking the townspeople, and being intelligent enough to throw rocks at the glass windows of a broken down school bus to get to the people stranded inside.

What is sad about this movie outside of the standard B-horror movie trappings of slow development and gratuitous blood and violence is that it stars Sean Patrick Flanery, of “Powder” and “Simply Irresistible” opposite Sara Michelle Gellar in the role of the town sheriff way in over his head.

@@ After this, the bus conductor started another film called “Mr. Bones II” a South African slapstick fantasy comedy in the tradition of “The Gods Must Be Crazy”, starring a White man as a tribal shaman which is supposedly the great, great grandfather of the same character in the first film, despite the character in the first film having a Tarzan-like origin of having been the only infant survivor of a plane crash in modern times, or at least decades ago enough to be a grown man in the present day.

Not much logic there, but just like the local comedies that we have, it garnered a lot of laughs from the viewers on the bus, at least the physical comedy aspects. Not going to hunt for it though, like the first film discussed.