Apathy: it is a common term tossed around campus. Fairfield students are typically labeled as disinterested in the world around them. In reality, this comment is used to describe college students too often.
Apathy is for those who don’t strive to make a change on the small level and the global level. Apathy is not something you will see if you go to a Students for Social Justice meeting, attend one of the many dinner series of a residential college or go to an information session on a domestic service trip.
Apathetic is something that we believe students on Fairfield’s campus should not be labeled as.
In an effort to send some love to those who help the “un-apathetic” on campus, there are numerous professors, faculty and students ready and willing to help those with a drive to make a change to something they see wrong around them. Plus with a number of resources in Campus Ministry, the countless Jesuits on campus or your upperclassman neighbor next door, all you have to do is ask.
If you are interested in global issues, students on campus are constantly involved in making their fellow students aware and allowing for chances for activism. Tuesday night, a documentary called “Budrus” was screened that followed the border issues of a nonviolent Palestinian village; it was co-sponsored by Humanities Institute, FUSA cultural events, Fairfield Marketing, Politics Department, International Studies Department, Judaic Studies, and Sociology. That’s seven different groups of individuals lending support to a good cause – we’d love to see even more of that across campus!
If you want to focus on student iniative on a smaller level, this Wednesday, the Community Service Club will hold their first meeting of the year. Whatever you’re looking for in terms of service opportunities, there will be something for you.
The amount of support given by professors and faculty members to these organizations is endless. They act as mentors for students to bounce ideas off of, make connections with others or simply act as a support system for students to chase their own dream of changing the world.
As daunting as this may seem, if you have something bugging you about campus, the state, your hometown, the country or even on an international level, there is a way to do something about it.
We do go to a Jesuit University after all – get inspired, use your resources and make it happen!
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