Few cast ballots in A.S. - News
As the above story from the Spartan Daily indicates, only 469 San Jose State (SJSU) students out of 30,000 bothered to cast votes in the recent race for Associated Students student government positions, despite the fact that A.S. controls $6 million in student fees.
Several articles in the Spartan Daily recently have highlighted the rampant apathy among SJSU students. It seems that not only do most SJSU students not care about their student government, they don't even care about their school. In fact, many SJSU students go beyond apathy to outright antipathy, as evidenced by posts by SJSU students on Myspace.com and elsewhere under titles like "I Hate This School".
Perhaps SJSU should be renamed "Apathy State University" in honor of the majority of students' attitudes toward the school.
Groups like the CSU Spartans ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CSU_Spartans ) are trying to combat SJSU apathy and academic and athletic mediocrity by restoring the school's valuable, prestigous and inspiring identity as the oldest and original California State University. This, they believe, will not only increase the name recognition and value of their degrees, but also help attract better, more committed residential students who will actually care about the school and help restore it to greatness.
To learn more, please visit, California State University, San Jose
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This isn't anything new for Slow Joe State U. SJSU is a commuter campus. Relatively few students have the time or interest in anything other than fulfilling the academic requirements for their degrees.
And that ain't gonna change. It's just the way SJSU is. And that isn't necessarily a bad thing. If I were in my 30s, going to school part time while holding down a full time job, the less that is going on outside of actual class teaching, the better.
Slow Joe State U, huh? I like it.
But the CSU Spartans disagreed with your view that everything is hunky dory the way it is at Slow Joe State.
The school's Slow Joe, small time, community college, commuter school identity and image degrades the value of our CSU degrees, and that MUST change!
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