Russell Nelson says:
In our high school we had a student government. We had no prisons and no guns.
Then you were a club.
Indeed. Why do you think most university students are as apathetic as they are about their student "government"? Largely, I'd say, because student "government" bodies possess no real power and do nothing -- they are "governments" in the same sense that white styrofoam carved into an appropriate shape is whipped cream. (I once was part of a debate held by Columbia University's Philolexian Society on the topic "Resolved: Student Government is Amazingly Lame", in which I noted that the low probability of a student government coup d'etat complete with tanks rolling about the campus, and of the following student government dictatorship run by a student military junta, demonstrated that the student "government" wasn't a government but a weak way to keep students placated, devoid even of the mild entertainment the occassional revolt could bring.) Perry