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Students' Party is best choice

As the Roman writer Lucan put it, "Don't consider anything to be done if anything is left to be done." If any words could describe the attitudes toward MSA of Jonathan Freeman and Olga Savic, it would be these. They are not content with a few projects here and there. They are not simply going to stand on a few issues that have some kind of mass-appeal.

Freeman and Savic not only actively search out issues that students feel are important, they write these things down with the sole intention of doing everything in their power to achieve them. The platforms of the parties may not seem too drastically different. But as Fiona Rose so eloquently put it, "The differences between the parties are the people involved." However, that view swings both ways. What she is essentially saying is, "Hey, screw the issues and focus on the people." With that attitude in mind, I must choose Freeman and Olga because I believe that not only do they have the experience in dealing with campus institutions, but they really do care.

Since Fiona has forced me to make up my mind on the basis of personality and not politics, I have to take a closer look at everyone who is running. The determining factors for me have been consistency, integrity and vision. Olga and Jonathan have not taken the easy way out. They have not sacrificed the cause for the immediate goal. They did not bail on their parties. In Probir's defense, however, I must admit that his circumstances were rather extenuating. He felt a bit suffocated in his role in the party.

But after promising for months that he would never join the Michigan Party, he ended up doing it. I respect Probir a great deal in most ways. Nevertheless, my choice is much more than obvious.

Party politics are stupid, and that is as eloquently as I will put it. Despite that, real leaders are needed.

ROBERT FRANZINO

RC SOPHOMORE