Sauder Valedictorian Election

Apparently I’m not nominated, a shocker I know. I am glad I got to vote in both the elections. It is nice to actually get to vote. I didn’t even know you can do a write in candidate until after I voted for the first batch. Maybe I should have wrote in Cthulu to revise an old tradition of not choosing a lesser evil.

I actually take the right to vote very seriously, but just who got nominated was a bit surprising. I noticed our class president and much of the MBAS did not receive nominations. I also noted a distinct lack of Chinese/Taiwanese/Hong Kongese candidates. In fact most of the candidates were white males who were born in Canada. So much for frickin’ diversity. The voting system involves ranking and doesn’t seem to be the system described in the last email I received.

I’m not going to list every candidate I voted for or their rankings. I think the people nominated for the most part should do a good job. None of them, with one tragic exception, seems to have much to do with the Sordid Sauder Saga. I don’t know if this is a reflection on the infamy of that whole situation or perhaps even just the rumor of involvement was enough to taint people. I know I never told anyone anything with one notable exception. I plan to keep my silence or at least the pretense of silence for a while longer. Though to quote a certain Assoicate Dean “Secrecy was never part of the agreement.” Perhaps in future it will be. Then again perhaps that violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and even the Sauder School of Business isn’t willing to go that far.

I seem to be the Voltaire of the Sauder School of Business. It’s classier than being the shit disturber.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where the established authorities think you are wrong.

After all did I not leave the country in order to publish my views from abroad.

If I’m not the Voltaire, I’m at least the Socrates of our class, after all it was asking questions about an election that first got me labeled as undesirable in the Kubrickian sense of the word. Wouldn’t want to ask questions, not at an institute of higher learning, it’s not encouraged. And whatever you do, don’t use sarcasm, it’s a hangin’ offence ’round these parts.

Or perhaps among my many mental problems is the delusion of grandeur.

In closing I want to direct my loyal readers, especially those that get to vote in this here election, to the following speech I wrote, once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away.

Update March 2015

Having battled depression for over ten years, I can not recommend blogging about your personal problems. Some people will never believe you and they just do not care how much their words and actions hurt you. I doubly do not recommend blogging about your personal problems while looking for work. Depression has left many gaps in my resume and I’ve never recovered from doing my MBA at the Sauder School of Business.

This entry was originaly posted on November 24th, 2005, it was last edited on September 26th, 2022 and is filed under: Rambles and tagged: Depression, MBA, Sauder School of Business.