"The secret of politics?"

"...make a good treaty with Russia."
-Otto Von Bismarck

Boredom is a terrible thing. Sitting here in my pajamas, watching Office Space for the fourth time in a week, I started thinking about the upcoming student government elections here at RPI. The 2008 presidential election will be the first one in which I'm able to cast a ballot (although I still need to go register :/), so I figure this election would be a good time to show my glorious dedication to the political process (sarcasm).

The only student election with which I'm relatively concerned is the race for Grand Marshal (the highest position a student can hold here). I won't pretend to be social enough to have even heard of most of the candidates, but the person who wins will be the only one who really has the power to improve conditions here, or else make my life nice and miserable. The candidate I'm most acquainted with (and the frontrunner, if all the signs around campus influence everything :P) is Sadra Azizi, currently a Resident Assistant in my dorm building, and an all around good guy.
I'm not thrilled with all of what I've seen in the signs around the RPI grounds. Maybe my opinion is not indicative of the that of the general population, but "TWO ENGINEERS BEST KNOWN FOR THEIR LARGE erections MONUMENTS" isn't a slogan that fills me with confidence in a potential leader. If I had seen that in, say, the fourth grade, I would've said "Ha...erections...that's funny." Unfortunately for "Team RV," I am not in the fourth grade anymore.