In case you haven't noticed, it's an election year. As we've been told, Pennsylvania sort of matters in deciding the Democratic candidate. And as flippant as I've just been, I can't underscore the following enough: things are getting crazy around here. In this semester alone, Bill and Chelsea Clinton have separately visited Penn. And now Colbert is coming! You know chaos must be reigning if Colbert manages to step foot on campus before Obama. After all, Colbert doesn't need our vote. (Though if he did, he'd certainly have mine.) Though we can chalk up a lot of the craziness to excitement, I'm not a politico and yet even I am caught up in the whirlwind. Perhaps some of the current flurry can be explained as nervous energy that has been "unresolved" for too long, as PSYC 001 taught me. Maybe we've had too much anticipation for our own good. Look at it this way: for months now, talk has centered on the upcoming PA primary and by extension, the election that will take place this November. These two events have been highly anticipated for a long time - for those anti-Bush, it's been 8 years! - without any resolution. If ever we've needed it, we need the release of voting, right now. And that's where Best of Penn 2008 comes in. For the last couple weeks, you had the opportunity to vote on what you think deserves a superlative - whether it's simply the greatest or the most infuriating - and now you can see the results of your input. Despite our Quaker colors, there are no red or blue maps to be found here - just a consensus about what you believe makes Penn tick. By exercising your enfranchisement and witnessing the outcome (without the added stress of any hanging chads) you can now feel the much-needed release of a motion completed. Consider it a voting-asm. Between this and the UA/Class Board elections, you should be able to last until April 22nd. As for November? This may be the first year in which we wish the summer months to fly by quickly. Now that is when you know that things have truly become crazy.
Here's to you,
