WHAT has Student Council done so far this academic year? That's the question that I am supposed to answer, but before writing this column, I thought about the ways in which I could express this simple idea: a song, a comic, a witty dialogue or a memoir (now, that sounds academic; I don't really know what it is, though). I even thought about an interpretative dance, but last night I was inspired by a certain TV show: VH1's "The White Rapper Show," a show in which "American Idol" meets "Real World" meets the "8 Mile" rap battle scene. I feel that it's not only necessary but, rather, imperative that I relay this information to you via a rap about Student Council.
Tuesday nights at six in Newcomb Hall
Student Council has meetings it gets on the ball
I write to set it straight, I write to make it clear
Our job is to help make a student's life better here
Now let me chronic-what-cles we've done so far this year
Our year started in August when school began
The activities fair, 500 student groups, not one from Kazakhstan
Borat put that country on the map and we wanted to know more
So we started a new campaign that you can't ignore
We called it Curriculum De-Westernization
And learned that was a huge complication
We reconvened, renamed and Re-released
De-westernize to Globalize
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