Lake Forest College's very own Ron Paul

By: Paul Henne

Posted: 11/13/08

Since Ron Paul was elected President last week, there has been a change in the air. It seems a lot cooler, Russia seems angrier, the sunset is prettier, dancers dance more often, and the economy is more capricious. Mary Volk, however, remains as malevolent as Ann Coulter herself.

Seriously though, I feel an essential change that occurred when Paul was elected.

The whole change thing extends to our more immediate campus life with the coming elections of the Lake Forest College Student Senate. And with the election of our prestigious President, it reminds me that we have our own Ron Paul on this campus, and his name is Jonas Mikolich, and he is running for VP of your school's Senate, and he is kind of cool, and - yeah - he is the guy that gets us all the good food in the cafeteria.

Earlier this week, I heard Jonas speak about his passion for Student Government. I know that I could never be passionate about something such as VP of Student Government, but if Jonas has the emphatic desire to accomplish things on campus, which make my unenthusiastic life easier, then I'm all for it.

What's most interesting about Jonas actually is all of the cool stuff that he wants to accomplish; he wants to give me more freedom, and he has won my vote because as a college student, I can never get enough anarchy in a weekend.

Since most of us here on the Lake Forest College campus are mature, responsible, kind, compassionate, and good-looking, we can handle ourselves, and we don't need our parents, big brother, or God watching us.

Similar to Ron Paul, Jonas wants us - responsible and capable students - to act as appropriate and mature students so that the big bad administration doesn't get all up in our biz (this is my paraphrase and not his words). I want more freedom, and I know that you do, too.

I want security (who has been freakin' awesome this year) away from me when I am not in danger (not in danger = secure). Also, those of you in administration shouldn't have to deal with our antics anymore, so I, as a student of LFC, vow never to smear feces on the walls during Homecoming ever, ever, ever again.

Jonas has a plan for all of this stuff; he wants to extend the honor code to form a community, to form a consensus of respect for each other, and to let the administration deal with more significant issues than babying us on the weekends. I know that you also want to trust your neighbors, and Jonas is working on this issue by extending the honor code.

Furthermore, through all of this extending of the honor code and being accountable for my actions, Jonas wants to augment my social life by focusing his part in Student Senate on non-academic hooey, and I really need that.

Honestly, Jonas is just a really nice dude who reminds me of Ron Paul (my hero), and he wants to improve our campus, so I support voting for him. I want Toga. I want freedom. I want a social life.

Nevertheless, all of the current candidates seem to be reasonable human beings, and I support (at least) voting for someone. And for clarification purposes, I am not at all affiliated with the election; I didn't have anything else to write about this week, and my life is pretty mundane.