There’s STILL chalk from the elections on campus, and it’s still ugly

Cast your mind back a couple of months to mid February, when elections were in full force. If you weren’t actively involved, you’ve probably already forgotten about them, and are unlikely to have any idea who even got elected.

I bitched at the time about the chalk on campus, and said that it wouldn’t be so bad if candidates actually bothered to take the time to wash them off post election, but this rarely if ever actually happens. Guess what, they’ve not bothered to remove them.

See, at the time the chalk was somewhat understandable. Hell, you could even say it brightened up the boring, grey university a little bit, if your favourite art form was illegible, irrelevant scribbles on university property. But that was back then, now all that’s left is a sad, slightly faded bit of chalk. And it’s even uglier than it was at the time.

Sort it out guys

We’ve got visiting days, where prospective students will come to the university and decide whether or not to spend the next three years of their life here. What sort of impression does this graffiti make?

The university shouldn’t be responsible for cleaning up your mess, candidates. The fact that it’s still here after all this time is frankly a disgrace. It wouldn’t even be that hard for candidates to clean up the mess they make after elections. If you didn’t want to clean up your chalky mess then you shouldn’t have done it in the first place, or if you absolutely had to scribble “Vote me 4 pointless union position” then you could at least had the intelligence to do so where the rain would get to it.

Is it asking too much of people that want to represent the student body to actually respect the place they go to university? I don’t think so. Whether you were elected or not, sort it out.