Salisbury University - Evergreen Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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I wouldn ' t be as interested in a large class. People don ' t talk, there ' s not as much input. You would think there would be more, having more minds there working, but people shy away from speaking up. I don ' t think the student body understands how much time we give to these different campus organiza¬ tions. I don ' t even know how to get on the yearbook. Is it a course you sign up for? Do you know who the SGA officers are? I wouldn ' t know them if I tripped over them walking down the the steps. It ' s self satisfying in a way, because you know you didn ' t just sit around and do nothing, you at least got out there and tried. You have to just want to do the work. You just have to want to not cry on somebody ' s shoulder, go in there and do your best and at least if things don ' t go your way you understand why. Most students bitch and they don ' t even understand why things happen. In a top election, out of all the elections we had this year; CCPB, SGA, everything; we has 399 people vote out, of more than 3,00. Do you really want that few people deciding for the whole campus? I came to school for the studies, if I can play sports along with that, fine. But, if it conflicts with my studies HI have to drop it. I think it ' s a shame, the apathy around here. If I conduct a dorm meeting we ' ll be lucky to get 45 people down here and that ' s usually the best turnout of the whole school. Everyone says this is a suitcase college because everyone leaves on the weekends and that ' s because there aren ' t any activities popping up, but nobody wants to put out an effort to help. 7

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wmmmm Involvement There is no substantial reward for working in a campus organization other than the personal satisfaction of doing something and seeing it work. Part of it I think is the student ' s fault, because if you want to find out you can find out. There are ways of i doing it but part of it is the Program Board ' s fau lt, because it is their responsibility to make it easier to find out. I don ' t attend concerts or any¬ thing like that because I ' d rather hear it on a record. Well, my roommate was the captain of the soccer team and I went to watch him be the captain rather than to watch the soccer game. What do I think of those who are involved? I don ' t really know them. If the people aren ' t involved and they don ' t want to be involved and they say nothing about what ' s going on around them, I think that ' s their decision. But the ones that aren ' t involved and make no attempt to be involved and then bitch about the organizations that are trying to work things out; I think they have no right to bitch. Involvement for me meant living in the dorm rather than going out for sports or working on the yearbook and things like that. The main thing for me about going to college is that the social aspect is just as important as the academic. On an individual level you can see how a person may not have the time to spend with an organization, but going on a campus of 3,000 people and only finding, say, less than 50 who are willing to put any substantial amount of time into these organizations is pretty Incredible. 6

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hhmmioh Race...Who Wins? What do I think about the racial situation at SSC? There isn ' t one is there? Dealing with the SGA, we try to compensate for their attitudes and preferences, but you just can ' t deny the dominance of such a huge major¬ ity and most of the programming done here is for the white middle class student. You see black and white walking together everyday, they have classes together., they practically live together. The racists that are here are a very minute part of the student body. Really, coming across the Bay Bridge, it ' s like going back 25 years as far as racial attitudes are con¬ cerned. Last year, when I went to the first Black Student Union meeting, they said the blacks should stick to¬ gether and after that everybody there went their own ways In different cl iques.