Spring Break
Another involvement chance come and gone
Accept off-campus policies or work towards change
Royal Purple staff
Issue date: 4/2/08 Section: Opinion
In a matter of weeks there will be open forums to meet finalists for the new chancellor of UW-Whitewater. This will be a chance for students and faculty alike to gather and have an active hand in the selection process that will choose the next chancellor.
These are the opportunities that are important. As of right now, most students will not go to the forum and see who is running. It's because many students are apathetic. Democracy, although touted as being the shining star of this country, is an oft-neglected tool.
"The machine is running just fine, why should I tinker with it?" is the question most young people hold in their brains.
It's the same question that resides in the backs of their minds when a city council meeting arises to discuss parking regulations downtown, and very few students show up. However, those same absent students are the first ones to cry injustice when their car gets towed or they get a ticket. Where were you in the months prior when this policy was being decided?
Here's a better question: do you want to make a difference and prevent future run-ins with campus and city policy? Try to take an active hand in the tons of democracy-based processes that surround our lives and offer you the chance to change those policies.
Millions of people in countries around the world would kill for such chances; many do. But many students will seldom get up off the couch.
These are the opportunities that are important. As of right now, most students will not go to the forum and see who is running. It's because many students are apathetic. Democracy, although touted as being the shining star of this country, is an oft-neglected tool.
"The machine is running just fine, why should I tinker with it?" is the question most young people hold in their brains.
It's the same question that resides in the backs of their minds when a city council meeting arises to discuss parking regulations downtown, and very few students show up. However, those same absent students are the first ones to cry injustice when their car gets towed or they get a ticket. Where were you in the months prior when this policy was being decided?
Here's a better question: do you want to make a difference and prevent future run-ins with campus and city policy? Try to take an active hand in the tons of democracy-based processes that surround our lives and offer you the chance to change those policies.
Millions of people in countries around the world would kill for such chances; many do. But many students will seldom get up off the couch.
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Kyle
posted 4/04/08 @ 10:21 AM CST
It's no surprise that Whitewater is already punishing students for off-campus conduct. Imagine the larger scope once these revisions go through...and they will go through unless students show up in large numbers at the Board of Regents meetings and state legislature proceedings where this issue will be considered during the 2008-2009 school year. (Continued…)
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