What do Kim Jong Il and the incoming leadership of the Student Government Association have in common? They both recently ran unopposed and won their respective elections. How strange.

Nonetheless, I have to give Kim Jong Il a little more credit. After all, I don't see SGA's president promoting her haircut as a standard among UD students.

It's sad to say, but there are probably tin-pot dictatorships in Africa that did a better job of promoting their elections than SGA did.

Which begs the question: Why not simply invalidate these elections and start over?

If SGA wants the trust of the student body it should quit creating excuses, admit that it did its job poorly, and redo it.

If they don't want to do it, I say that the University of Dayton has a referendum with four choices: First, Peter Blazunas as dictator. Second, remove the present SGA leadership, invalidate the elections, and have the administration appoint a student committee to run new elections. Third, abolish the student government altogether in favor of an anarcho-syndicalist commune. Fourth, keep the present government.

Obviously, one of the above choices is pure fantasy; who would, after all, want to live in a commune?

Nonetheless, the point is that SGA failed in running its own elections.

Do them over. Don't whine about respect for the organization. It's pretty clear at this point that very few people have any.