"Wait . . . We Have a Student Council?"

Have you ever heard any of the following statements?:
a. “Student Council is holding Jar wars in the cafeteria next week.’
b. “The dance will be planned by Student Council.”
c. “Student Council is holding a fundraiser for (insert name of organization here).”
d. All of the above?

Who exactly makes up this Student Council? How are its members chosen? Besides planning dances and hosting fundraisers, what exactly does Student Council do? But most importantly:

Why do the majority of the students at Bishop Kearney not know the answers to these questions?

The answer: No one knows how to get involved.

If we knew anything about Student Council, more students would join, causing students to feel like they had a say in what happened to them during their high school years. If that were to happen, there would probably be a lot less complaining.

Kearney’s Student Council should be a democracy, not an oligarchy where a few seniors make up the ruling body. Would it really be that difficult to have the students actually know who their representatives are because they were the ones who elected them?

It’s sort of like George Orwell’s 1984: “Big Brother is always watching.” Big Brother was constantly among the members of the Party, only no one knew exactly who Big Brother was. Did anyone end up happy in the end? Not unless you count being tortured and brainwashed as a means of attaining happiness. However, many people, like Wilson and Julia, started to rebel against “Big Brother” because they were dissatisfied with the way they were forced to live under it.

In a way, Student Council is the “Big Brother" of Bishop Kearney. We know next to nothing about them, and yet they have the potential to hold so much control over us. Some people accept it, saying that things are never going to change. What they always seem to leave out is that if you don’t try to change the way things are, who will?

-Lauren Parker