There comes a time in every undergraduate student’s life when he realizes that he is flat broke, bored, and needs a hobby that involves more than simply sitting stationary in a university residence lounge, asking himself where that smell comes from and why can the dedicated cleaning staff never seem to defeat it? That time has come. And so, out of my overwhelming desire to not only inform, but to gossip, comes a contribution to the current flurry of AMS elections coverage. You may be asking… who are you, and in what manner will you attempt to connect cupcakes and a quote largely misattributed to Marie Antoinette to the student elections held for the Alma Mater Society? The answers to those questions are (mostly) simple.

My name is Shawn Stewart, suffice it to say I am an undergraduate at this fine institution of UBC, and I found it necessary to coin myself le grand gateau of this “slice” of the web. If you must know I found it whimsical, and envisioned a situation wherein this tiny blog elevated me to media mogul status, and lesser reporters would ask me for favours and address me only as the large cake, and it was all very god-father-esque in theory. But I digress, it’s prudent to inform you that my major hobby in life is judging. Oh yes, we all judge, we love “What not to wear”, or watching those Paula Abdul interviews where she is so very clearly (and by clearly we mean allegedly…) drunk off her face. However I have a psychotic passion for judging so scalding hot that I have been left with no other option but to become a political reporter.

As for the title of this report? Well aside from allowing me to make pastry-based puns to my heart’s content, it represents some things that are very important to politics. One: that everything you say or do, can, and will be used against you. Or it may be used in your favour, depending on what will make a better story. Two: It invokes the image of a disconnected monarch, something that is easily equated to the way UBC students have come to feel about their AMS representatives. The purpose of this blog will be to bring them down to earth, in a casual, tongue in cheek- and let’s not lie- hopefully scandalous manner.

So stay tuned, intrepid reader. Don’t worry about the news being dry,

I like my AMS elections coverage like I like my cake; moist and delicious.

- S