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After spending a few years at this college, one thing has become impossible to ignore: how deeply divided the student body is. Most students here won't take any action without a nod from their zone seniors, and nowhere is that clearer than during SAC elections.

Every election season, someone shows up at your door with a slip of paper listing names to vote for. No manifesto, no explanation, no reason given — just a name and an expectation. Meanwhile, people are seen begging friends for their portal passwords just to rack up votes. None of this makes sense. Why would anyone vote for a candidate who has no plan, no manifesto, nothing beyond the backing of a zone that's built itself into an echo chamber?

What's especially absurd is that this "zonism" exists even among Odia students — people from the same state splitting into rigid loyalties based on which part of Odisha they're from. It's 2026. Having friends from a different region shouldn't be treated like a betrayal.

The same pattern repeats in hall elections. Candidates go door to door pleading for votes, then vanish the moment they're elected — no follow-through, no accountability. Meanwhile, real problems go unaddressed. Students in DBA hall have reportedly been bullied by their own hall caterer for the "crime" of asking for better food quality. Think about that: a caterer feels emboldened enough to intimidate the students they're supposed to serve, and nobody pushes back. If you're in a position of responsibility and can't even stand up for something as basic as food quality, what exactly is that role for?

It's not just DBA. In GDB hall, students' access to the cycle stand is locked off supposedly to keep dogs out yet you can spot dogs sleeping in the corridors any day of the week. Meanwhile, students are the ones forced to take an entire detour through the rain just to reach their own cycle stand. The justification doesn't even hold up against what's happening right in front of it.

It makes me wonder if something like what happened at IIT Delhi were to happen here, would anyone actually speak up? Given how things stand, I doubt it. Everyone's too busy protecting their own zone to raise their voice for someone else.

And before anyone says "the administration is corrupt, what can students even do" — the administration at IIT Delhi was corrupt too. But the students spoke up anyway, and the professors who actually cared about student welfare stood behind them against the ones who didn't. That's the difference. Here, the corruption is just as visible — from placement coordinators and secretaries all the way up through the administration — and it doesn't stop with them. Some students are using their own SAC positions as cover to misappropriate fest funds. What does anyone actually gain from that, besides earning the quiet resentment of their juniors and batchmates?

Monday Morning was shut down for exposing corruption on this campus. And what did the rest of us do? Nothing. We stayed silent, as if we were subjects of this administration rather than the people it's supposed to serve, while the members of Monday Morning bore the consequences alone.

I sincerely hope no student here ever has to go through what that student at IIT Delhi did because right now, this campus doesn't have the spine to stand up for its own people.

With hall elections coming up, here's my ask: when someone shows up at your door begging for your vote, ask them one simple question why should I vote for you? We spend the majority of our college lives in these halls, and we deserve better than candidates who show up once a year to beg for votes, then disappear the moment they win, ignoring every voice. Do better.

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