How many more letters will we read?

“The reaction was pretty mixed,” suddenly prominent Santugon candidate Mia Jimenez told me this afternoon. “People from other batches were asking me questions.”

Her open letter, which was assiduously circulated over the weekend, has made her some sort of celebrity. Some might see her as a symbol of courage, of one candidate who decided to speak up about a consistently controversial – and confusing – aspect of the everyday musings of the Student Council. Others might see her as a candidate from, bluntly, a political underdog who’s desperate to win.

“Around three,” she answered, when I asked her about the number of people that asked her about the letter. “From what batches, I don’t know.”