A PSC-dominated student government could do much to make that a reality. Anyone who reads this column, or who has listened to any of my drunken street-corner sermons, knows that the PSC and I have little in common. That is not to say that I think the emergence of the coalition, and the prospect of genuinely contested elections, is by any means a bad thing. But I also have a more selfish reason for enjoying the rise of the PSC, and it goes back to my days as a counselor at a summer camp. The rule was, if a kid is out of control, put him in charge.
Leadership has a funny way of changing outlook.
Apparently the PSC has, borrowing a page from the 1994 Republican congressional campaign, drawn up a list of principles on which they are all running. We ll see, like a certain Contract with America, how long they last. I just hope they don t turn into a bunch of Ralphs. John Ushman is a Washington Square News columnist.