Just when you thought the Internet was only for pirating music, instant messaging the person down the hall and downloading porn, it might have a real purpose: saving trees. It works like this, each year ASUA prints out thousands of ballots for the UA electorate to choose its political leaders. And each year, thousands of those ballots go unused. Well, certainly they get recycled.

Okay, really the Internet has another purpose connected with ASUA. This spring, when the handful of us who believe voting behavior is a marker of upstanding moral character cast our votes in the ASUA elections, we will be marking virtual ballots in cyberspace. At Wednesday night's meeting ASUA election commissioner Joe Rodgers presented the senators with an updated election code proposal. The proposal outlined the protocol for UA's first online elections.

The proposal has merit in many ways - besides the aforementioned environmental perk.

First, in the words of Rodgers, "It's quicker, faster and more modern than the old elections." Who can argue with progress?