Dear Editor,

At Milpitas High School, we, along with the rest of America, have caught the campaign fever from the upcoming November presidential elections. Not only are we more interested about the unexpected candidates, but we have also been influenced by their momentum by applying it to our own schoolwide leadership campaigns.

I think this newfound enthusiasm is great, however, like the presidential race, our leadership campaigns have exploded into a frenzy of posters and advertisements that have gone out of hand and now litter our campus. Posted carelessly, on every wall and corner, is a collection of campaign posters, promoting the candidates, which can only be described as an eruption of paper and a symbol of the waste that Americans go through every single day.

We can relate this sort of wastefulness to the current presidential campaign through the extraordinary amount of money and resources being raised for the candidates devoted to television commercials and ads.

My hope is that our country will soon realize that these unnecessary efforts mostly go to waste. It is hard to accept, but America's youth may actually be listening and learning from these potential presidents of our United States.

Peter Dang

Milpitas