There are just a few campaign days left, and I’m honestly looking forward to election day, as we can all stop this exhausting endeavor of convincing people to vote for you and your party against a full slate opposition.

Last Monday, as the two aspirants for chairperson in Mass Comm, Karol and I were interviewed together over DZUP. He was as jolly as he usually is. It’s laughable how some people seriously pit us against each other. We never had bad moments with each other even as members of the incumbent student council, even when we were debating on our positions regarding the tuition increase proposal a few months ago. All’s well (or so I’d like to believe).

Anyway, as the program progressed, one of the main differences between Karol and I are exposed. As expected, Karol and his party, ISA, finally admits that they are for tuition fee increase, while we in STAND-UP are, from the beginning, against its approval. To people who’ve been asking what’s the different between the two parties, perhaps that can serve as a factor on how they will decide next Tuesday. Are we not afraid of losing votes because of our position? Honestly, no. This is our stand, and we are being honest and unpretentious about it. We lay out all our cards in campaign, and if a fellow Mass Comm student firmly believes otherwise, then due respect is given. We will not compromise these positions during election campaign to simply garner votes.

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Many of the STAND-UP candidates in the student council elections, including Mikas and I, went to the youth sector mobilization yesterday. It was a demonstration similar to the youth sector rally a few weeks ago. This rally was scheduled towards the end of February because it is during these times when school administrations across the country conduct ‘consultations’ regarding tuition hikes for the next academic year.

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There are relatively few classes and students in Mass Comm during Wednesdays, which makes it a small breather among the days of the week in campaign. I nevertheless did not campaign in the morning because my groupmates in documentary film class and I went to Sampaloc, Manila to shoot footages for our documentary.

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I’m overwhelmed sometimes. Running during last year’s Mass Comm student council elections wasn’t this hectic. Most of us in the slate, including Marella and I for Film Department Representatives, were running unopposed. There was very little pressure that time. This year is a lot different. Our party is running with a full-slate opposition, which as I’ve mentioned in a previous entry, is similarly determined to win the elections.

[These pictures were taken from our makeshift campaign booth during the afternoon of the first day of campaign period]

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It’s been a hectic first two days of campaign. I didn’t expect it to be this tiring. I wish I could blog about it everyday but see, I get home at around 8 every night, do some studying and other home works first then I immediately fall asleep. Then I have to wake up for my 7AM class the next day–it leaves me no time for blogging, again since I spend the whole day in Mass Comm. Whew. With all humility, I must say that student council elections in UP, even at the college-level can be stressful, what with me belonging to the militant student alliance/party with its own share of antagonists and with us having to run against a similarly determined opposition. Hehe.

Perhaps I can write a better entry tonight. Today is reserved for a shoot for documentary class.