Content with complacency

Apathetic. Indifferent. Complacent. Who cares?

We’re Aggies. We care about sports. Kind of. Big deal.

Election packets are due Monday. Six people have signed up to run for five of the 16 available offices. Yawn, right?

The only overlap of applicants so far is for Athletics VP. Is that supposed to matter to us?

Ag. Science and Engineering are the only senator positions where someone has applied to run. So what if our college doesn’t have representation. Not our problem, right?

Thousands of dollars in scholarships and stipends? Psh. We have student loans to take care of our schooling. Why bother getting money we don’t have to pay back?

An opportunity to represent our school around the nation and gain leadership experience to draw from in our future careers of choice? Not our cup of tea.

Let people who look like the student-officer type run the school. Just like every year. Why break stereotypes?

Get to know administrators who could write us a killer letter of recommendation? Fat chance.

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Last year, one person ran for Natural Resources senator. He backed out after being elected, and six people ran in the re-election.

Don’t wait for that to happen. Run for office. Take your future into your own hands, and quit being apathetic about life in general.

— Mariah Noble is editor-in-chief of this newspaper. Reach her at statesmaneditor@aggiemail.usu.edu.