Federal, state and local elections have always been held on the first Tuesday of November for a reason: consistency. If voters are given a date that is reliable and memorable they are more likely to make it to the voting booths to cast their ballots.
Furthermore, in today's apathetic society, most savvy politicians know the best thing they can do for their political careers is to make voting as simple and mindless as possible for their constituency.
Obviously, the University of Houston Students' Association is under a different impression. Candidates who are on SA have apparently decided the best time for elections is their time.
Because of candidates' whining and pleading for more time to campaign, SA decided to push back the original, tentative date for elections, which would have been held March 5 and 6.
Unfortunately for SA, the unpredictable Texas weather forced the Senate to cancel the Feb. 13 meeting and has kept them from setting a "new and improved" election calendar.
Who knows when elections will actually be held? It is already Feb. 17, and the dates still haven't been set. This may be convenient for candidates, but SA's wishy-washy attitude toward elections may leave students feeling like they were never asked to the prom.
SA may be dangerously forgetting a very important political question: Aren't students the participants to whom the biggest advantage in elections should be given?
If the next SA meeting isn't canceled, senators might consider thinking of students first when they make a decision about elections.