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Campus solicitors are not unlike cockroaches

Stephen Ruderman is a 20-year-old Staff Writer and Advertising Manager of  the Express.
Stephen Ruderman is a 20-year-old Staff Writer and Advertising Manager of the Express.

There’s a very annoying, demanding and guilt-tripping bunch on campus. No, they’re not our professors, they’re the petitioners, who skulk around campus and bother you to no end to get just one signature.

People often find salesmen or people who work for cable companies as the most annoying human beings to roam the planet. If people wish to cancel their cable subscription, the company will have someone question the dissatisfied customer, until the poor and worn-out customer finally caves in and changes his mind.

Cable companies deserve credit, though. They don’t guilt-trip people or insult them for not wasting most of their paychecks on cable. However, petitioners here on campus do precisely that. Campuses are not the place to get people to sign petitions.

Earlier this year, I was playing Words with Friends on my phone when I walked by a petitioner who wanted my attention. After I ignored him, because I was looking at my phone, he said under his breath that it was “uncalled for.” I let him know about my dissatisfaction with his comments. A week later, I ran into him again, and he politely let me know that he didn’t appreciate people ignoring him.

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Another thing that should irk people is that there is a good chance the petitioners don’t even care about the political issues they’re trying to get signatures for. They make their salaries based on how many signatures they get. I don’t know what they want the money for, but I’m not interested in helping them make it.

There are better places than campus to get people to sign petitions. Other than myself and a few others, most millennials don’t care at all for politics. Looking for people to make a difference in politics on a school campus is like KFC hosting a fitness clinic. A poll conducted by Harvard’s Institute of Politics indicated that only 23 percent of Americans aged 18-29 are expected to vote in the midterm elections in November.

College is a time to be rebellious, to hate authority figures, not to hate annoying cockroaches that stop you every 10 seconds to demand a signature.

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