2008 Woodie Awards
Why you shouldn't vote
Mehdi Ghannadan
Issue date: 10/7/08 Section: Opinion
Today there is no need to turn on CNN or Fox News; you know it all already.
The same gossip about this, weapon proliferations that and all the economic jargon you really don't need to hear - I mean your job's not on the line, and as students, we don't work enough to care.
Today world hunger may exist somewhere, sure, but you're fed well enough to make it through to lunch or dinner.
Yes gas may be expensive, but it usually is during the summer, it's not like it could stay this way forever, or get worse.
Why worry about fossil fuels and the damages they may be causing to our environment and possibly our atmosphere? It's not like you drive your car much anyways, you're a college student!
Speaking of summer, it has been getting pretty warm these last few years, but it's nothing too critical, the rising temperatures aren't something to get all alarmed about, it must be like El Niño, or something.
Today the words "foreign affairs" and "domestic security" are thrown around all the time, but what do words like that mean to you?
Infidelity abroad and keeping SSU safe? Yeah that's probably it, I mean, if the world isn't blowing up today, why should you care, you have midterms just days away. Making the grade is much more important than hypothesizing what would happen if weapons grade plutonium got into the wrong hands.
Of course some country probably does have problems a little bigger than what you will wear to the next fraternity mixer; something like child soldiers or a big word like "genocide."
Darfur for example, sounds like a fancy throw rug doesn't it?
Why worry about things like disease and illnesses, you have Kaiser. Many Americans might not be able to afford decent health care but come on, how many people get sick enough that they need to actually see a doctor?
Today, however, will not always be the problem. As time passes, today becomes tomorrow, and the next becomes the future. If we have problems today that we refuse to admit, that we fear to acknowledge, these fears will echo on for the rest of our lives and onto the lives of the generations to come.
The unfortunate truth is that today is the tomorrow for someone who failed to act when the chance was available.
Let apathy be no excuse for our failure to act, as William E. Simon once said, "Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote." Why should we spend another day in a world we would rather ignore?
Why not stand and feel the worth of our words as we raise our voices in unison for the change we so direly need.We are tomorrow for someone and today we need to choose to make a difference, for if we don't we leave it for the tomorrow that will never come.
The same gossip about this, weapon proliferations that and all the economic jargon you really don't need to hear - I mean your job's not on the line, and as students, we don't work enough to care.
Today world hunger may exist somewhere, sure, but you're fed well enough to make it through to lunch or dinner.
Yes gas may be expensive, but it usually is during the summer, it's not like it could stay this way forever, or get worse.
Why worry about fossil fuels and the damages they may be causing to our environment and possibly our atmosphere? It's not like you drive your car much anyways, you're a college student!
Speaking of summer, it has been getting pretty warm these last few years, but it's nothing too critical, the rising temperatures aren't something to get all alarmed about, it must be like El Niño, or something.
Today the words "foreign affairs" and "domestic security" are thrown around all the time, but what do words like that mean to you?
Infidelity abroad and keeping SSU safe? Yeah that's probably it, I mean, if the world isn't blowing up today, why should you care, you have midterms just days away. Making the grade is much more important than hypothesizing what would happen if weapons grade plutonium got into the wrong hands.
Of course some country probably does have problems a little bigger than what you will wear to the next fraternity mixer; something like child soldiers or a big word like "genocide."
Darfur for example, sounds like a fancy throw rug doesn't it?
Why worry about things like disease and illnesses, you have Kaiser. Many Americans might not be able to afford decent health care but come on, how many people get sick enough that they need to actually see a doctor?
Today, however, will not always be the problem. As time passes, today becomes tomorrow, and the next becomes the future. If we have problems today that we refuse to admit, that we fear to acknowledge, these fears will echo on for the rest of our lives and onto the lives of the generations to come.
The unfortunate truth is that today is the tomorrow for someone who failed to act when the chance was available.
Let apathy be no excuse for our failure to act, as William E. Simon once said, "Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote." Why should we spend another day in a world we would rather ignore?
Why not stand and feel the worth of our words as we raise our voices in unison for the change we so direly need.We are tomorrow for someone and today we need to choose to make a difference, for if we don't we leave it for the tomorrow that will never come.
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