Movement To End Pizza Politics in UCF SGA Elections Grows
News, UCF SGA — By Kevin Wolkenfeld on March 22, 2011 at 4:49 pmA Facebook campaign aimed to stop free Pizza handouts during SGA Presidential election is getting lots of attention. As of this afternoon, the event page already has 251 people attending.
The event is called “Expect more Free Pizza/Redefining Bribes (Eat Free Pizza Protest),” a playful title aimed at the two SGA campaign slogans “Expect more” and “Possibility Redefined.”
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The event page states, “During this time rich kids on power trips will try and buy your vote so they can buy their way into office” and calls for student’s to eat campaigners’ pizza. “Starting Monday I implore you to eat as much as the free pizza (and whatever other food they may have) as possible!” it states. “Spread the word and tell your friends!”
“If you can’t beat the system, eat the system,” said Tyler Smith, one of the administrators of the event page.
Smith went on to add, “In short, we are hoping to end pizza politics and the manipulation of student voters through education. We hope to either entice candidates to stop food handouts or to consume their number one commodity. Hopefully, then students can vote for the issues and not the freebies.”
Kyle Schumacher had brought up some of the problems with pizza in the last SGA Presidential election in a letter he sent to KnightNews.com and its readers last year.
“In my three years at UCF, I have seen how elections can be swayed by false promises, appealing signs and infinite slices of pizza… Additionally, the current election process favors those with the deepest pocketbooks and largest pledge classes, not those best suited for being responsible of a $14 million budget,” Schumacher said.
The Facebook event could be found in this link http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136923366376489.
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Truth,
Thats an opinion…not a truth. Silly wabbit
I feel like this will be as effective as not buying gas for a day. I worked on campaigns while at UCF over my 5 years there and we knew people just came by to get pizza even though they already voted or weren’t going to vote. The people working on the campaigns ate it for breakfast/lunch/dinner. Its already factored in to the budget and now that there’s an event there will be a contingency plan of more pizza, stickers and t-shirts. Or even Jeremiah’s which was a personal fav. If anything this event is promoting unhealthy eating. They should plan a group gym day after this week of pizza gorging.
The only thing this will lead to is decreased voter turnout… turnout lower than the already abysmal numbers over who knows how many years previously. Then I’m sure there will be stories written about how crappy the turnout was with blame pointed at anyone and everyone.
The only way you’re going to get informed voters is if they actually care enough to read about the issues. It is proven time and time again on small and large scales that for whatever reason the populace just doesn’t care enough to be truly informed. Pizza is nothing but a symptom, not the cause.
Dear Truth, I find it interesting that you choose to go by an alias while making supposedly truthful revelations to the internet about these people.
Trust me if students thought about how they voted and cared, people like Thomas Hellinger and Tyler Smith would never be elected.These people are a disgrace and do not represent any student I know.Hellinger is a crazy who has no place representing any student at UCF