Apathy is our problem now?

Don’t call me apathetic.

By Chris Yee
[creative arts bureau chief]

I popped down to Grassroots the other day to get a medium coffee that isn’t in a miniscule cup.

Waiting for my order to be filled, I glimpsed a tatty, laser printed poster on the wall next to the condiment table: Rally for Apathy – March 17. So, apathy is our problem, now? Let’s see about that.

There’s no student life at Kwantlen? Who cares! I’ve got my own life. I mean, why would I want to associate with the “students” at the KSA? They only buy birthday cake for themselves – what have they done for me? Nothing.

You say the KSA stands up for our interests? Nothing they do there is relevant. They lobby for lower tuition fees? Yeah, the tuition here could be better, but Kwantlen’s pretty good as schools in B.C. go. Besides, lots of people seem to be able to handle working their way through school pretty well (even in this economy) – and more people than you might think actually saved up for school or are having it paid for by their folks. It’s all about individual responsibility, people! (With some allowance for good fortune, I guess.)

Sure, it’ll be nice to pay less, but that’s life. Sometimes you have to roll with the punches and tough things out.  It’s not like the KSA can do much about it; all it can do is complain and make noises.

To give another example, the Fight Impark fund (or whatever it’s called) has much the same problem as the tuition fee lobbying thing. I mean, when the fuck are they going to implement that? They better get on that soon, actually, now that they’ve finished dicking around with that overpriced Multipass garbage. Who rides the bus in Surrey or Langley anyway? It’s not like organic grocery deliveries and Gold’s Gym promotions are going to get everyone on the bus. Some people like meat and some people live far from a Gold’s Gym location. The Multipass isn’t going to help them.

But, who cares – the KSA are all politicians-in-training anyway. And they’re doing a piss-poor job of it too, getting smashed all the time. What are you guys, John A. MacDonald? It’s not the 19th century anymore. We expect our politicians (as much as we expect anything from them at all) to be at least sober.

Clubs are crap here. I like philosophy and film and art and all but some people take it way too seriously. I have no fucking idea what the Psychology Society does anymore. I have no fucking idea if there’s an actual Sociology Society. The History Society consists of the same group of friends who somehow manage to be in the same classes together. The Political Science Society seems to be picking up pretty slowly. Actually, that’s about all the clubs I can name off the top of my head. I’m pretty sure most people have no idea what I’m going on about.

Oh, one more thing about clubs – I’m pretty sure the Business student groups are doing alright, but I have no idea really of what goes on with them.

I’m apathetic? Don’t call me apathetic, I’m just a regular guy on campus, you condescending buffoons. Get your own house in order, and then we’ll talk. Besides, if you strip all the irony away from it, wouldn’t going to a Rally for Apathy kind of defeat its purpose? Irony’s dead, anyway.