Discuss “Presidential Perspectives”

Each year our campus community entertains certain “new” public discussions: How do we encourage diversity within student activities? How do we engage an apathetic campus? This time of year, the questions inevitably turn to, “How can you increase student turnout in campus elections? When will students recognize the importance of student government?” But these aren’t new questions, this isn’t a new discussion, and we don’t have a new answer.

Certain things just are. Students care about campus, but that level of concern can vary with the weather, the amount of school work, and, in the case of student government, the people in office. This year, we didn’t seek to provide or become an answer to the fundamental question. We just...