Disclaimer: This is purely my opinion generated from my limited experience.
This post is sparked by the April Fool's Edition of The Muhlenberg Weekly. However, this post is not a joke, I honestly am concerned about the lack of involvement that the younger class years have on campus. I've considered the subject of apathy among the younger classes before, and the more experience I have, the more convinced I become. The classes directly younger than me are more apathetic than I have seen. The Weekly is one example. CASE is another. APO even has this problem, even with the relatively large number of brothers. There is just very few people outside of the senior class that are heavily invested in some organizations that I am more familiar with on campus. For CASE, we have nobody, outside of the 6 house residents, who regularly comes to meetings; and 4 of the residents are graduating in May. The future of the club is looking grim: not enough interest in a house for next year and very few attendees other than seniors at the couple events that we have had this semester. I feel bad for the couple of people who remain interested in keeping CASE going, because this lack of interest has placed additional stress on them and makes the responsibility of it too much to handle. We don't even have a treasurer for CASE, meaning the president has to take care of it.
Note that not everyone in the younger classes falls under the "doesn't care about anything" category. I know many younger students who remain involve and are passionate about the organizations on campus. As whole however, it seems like the younger students are not as involved as the classes that have recently graduated have been.
If this applied only to CASE, I would understand that it could be just an isolated lack of interest in a substance-free organization. But the problem appears to be widespread, which leads me to think otherwise. Which is unfortunate, because organizations like CASE, APO and The Weekly cannot operate and be successful without students who are willing to take on some responsibility.
