TO THE EDITOR:
In response to the controversy regarding changes in the drop-add period: Students are upset when the conservative politicians who now run our state influence a decision that enters the bubble of UNC. They have a right to be.
But it is noteworthy that there were opportunities to attend protests and participate in mass rallies throughout the last year, and few could be moved to stand up for the rights of countless people whose lives are being affected by various other legislative initiatives.
I’m glad to see that there is such an outcry, but saddened to think that we perceived ourselves to be immune to the power of “officials” who are now influencing and soon to be dictating education policy in North Carolina.
I am even more let down by our relative apathy toward previous policy. We are the students of the flagship university of this state. It is not only our challenge, but also our duty to tend to and care about where this state as a whole is headed.
And alas, I can fault no one without faulting myself first. If this recent ill-advised drop-add limitation is what moves us toward such an end, then so be it.
The Board of Governors meets at UNC today at 8 a.m. I will be there to cause a disruption, for disruptive behavior in an instance like this serves as an impediment to disagreeable behavior on behalf of those who are in “power,” thereby reasserting and redistributing power to those who innately possess it: the students, the thinkers, the workers, the people. I urge you to join me and perhaps tap into your inner power.
Troy Homesley ’14
Political science
Philosophy
