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VP Student Life platforms
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Mar 17th, 2008 at 04:00pm |
It's hard to say what comprises the VP Student Life platforms. Though each has a 'platform' that was an early post to their website and Facebook groups, they have each been offering additional ideas throughout the campaign period. For the sake of simplicity, I'm sticking to the initial offering from each (Kris | Krista). They are short, so no summaries.
As usual, metrics. Most are self-explanatory. The Flesch-Kincaid metrics use words, syllables, and sentences to estimate the reading difficulty. Grade Level estimates the number of years of education required to comprehend the writing. Ease measures how easy it is to read, on a scale of 1-100 (100 = very easy).| Candidate | # Words | # Paragraphs | Flesch-Kincaid
Grade | Flesch-Kincaid Ease | % Passive Sentences |
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| Krista | 470 | 17 | 11.8 | 51.8 | 7% |
| Kris | 721 | 7 | 11.2 | 52.4 | 20% |
Frankly, neither platform is that great, though I don't think that in this case the platforms are an accurate reflection of what either candidate brings to the table.
I'll use the mostly random categories I invented for the president again.
Most concrete innovative ideas: Kris. I have it 4-2; Krista offers a lot of ideas, but not concrete ones.
Most obvious typo: Kris. He won it entirely for this terrifyingly incomprehensible sentence: "left with little guidance accept for here is you class schedule and good look". "accept" should obviously be "except", "you" should be "your"... but what is "good look"? "good luck", I assume? Even without the obvious errors, it's a terrible sentence. READ YOUR OWN DAMN PLATFORMS.
Best organization: Kris, for the 2-3 word category he gave each item.
Most annoying use of third-person: Krista.
Best Presentation: Krista, for calling it a campaign platform, and for not tacking it onto the end of a questionable list of experience. (Kris' experience includes, for example, "attending orientation week". But I digress).
Best use of vague platitudes: Tied.
'No Shit, Sherlock' Award: Kris. I invented this award after I read this sentence: "After speaking to many students on all 3 campuses I have gotten the impression that many students feel segregated from those on a different campus, particularly Carlton and Sexton being separated from Studley." (By the way, PROTIP: spell Carleton correctly, you're not Chris Ide).
Comments:
Chris M says:
[Mar 17th @ 06:21pm]
Kris or KrisTA... Hmm...
Whatever happened to the days where candidates spelled their names with a "C"?
That's the right way.
Chris "No One Will Amount to My Greatness" Ide says:
[Mar 18th @ 12:51am]
Chris M, I'm with you on the 'K' thing.
Mike, I know you've been out west for a while so I'll forgive you for not knowing that the last thing I did as VP Internal was remove the 'E' from what is formerly known as "Carleton".
I See You're Pretty Gangsta. I'm Pretty Gangsta My says:
[Mar 18th @ 01:29am]
That and the bitching about the C-level societies. Man, I didn't see *that* one coming.
Jen Bond says:
[Mar 18th @ 10:35am]
Ahahahaha. Oh Chris Ide. You are truly a legendary leader, even amongst the alphabet.
Chris M says:
[Mar 18th @ 11:23am]
Evidently, there is no IDE in TEAM ; )
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