EDITORIAL: There is much power behind student activism

There have been grumblings about changes to the community at FIU — the BBC Student Government Association backed out of a merger with MMC seemingly because students and alumni fought against it.

This editorial was originally written on behalf of the PantherNOW e-board and was featured in PantherNOW. The editorial focuses on the increase of student activism and why it is beneficial to one's college career.

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Maytinee Kramer/Opinion Director

There have been grumblings about changes to the community at FIU — the BBC Student Government Association backed out of a merger with MMC seemingly because students and alumni fought against it. Another is President Rosenberg suspending Greek life, to which the alumni threatened to cease funding. All of these have one thing in common: student activism.

Student activism is about unity, passion, and most importantly, a desire of change. As members of the University, we should not be complacent and accept things as they are, but strive to make a change if something bothers us or we want to see things done differently.

Activism should be viewed as a developmental component of student learning and the ideas and perspectives that fuel student activism may one day provide solutions to some of our nation’s biggest problems.

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