I've recently concluded that the problem with this country can be summed up by the Alligator articles and editorials Students for a Democratic Society has generated over the last year. You may agree that the world as we know it is falling apart, but you'll continuously bicker over every last detail of those whose conscience compels them to actually take action.
Wednesday was the seventh day UF students have been on hunger strike, and Wednesday's paper was no different.
"You hippies hungry yet?" I'm asked.
We are aware of the seriousness of the step we have taken and can only reiterate the seriousness of the problem we are confronting.
We are fast coming to terms with the economic reality that a system that puts profit before people and the environment will do just that until it reaches its logical conclusion, nicely summed up in the current occupation of Iraq and the looming climate crisis.
Obviously our generation desires lives of modest comfort and stability, but this may very well be out of our grasp if we continue down the path we are on. Unfortunately, it seems our university's very funding is derived from the forces we so desperately need to check.
Eighty-two percent of voting students feel that UF should do more to address this problem. If we can't even hold our own university accountable to the needs and desires of our generation, how can we ever hope to address the larger issues confronting us?
