Don't you know this is de rigueur?

To the Editor:

Wendy, Wendy, Wendy - did you forget that in the job description of each editor of a campus newspaper is a line that "at some time in the year you will write an editorial on student apathy"? So I don't take the most recent incarnation too seriously.

Yes, we had a different experience at Acadia in the ‘60s and ‘70s. But don't slag the Acadia Advantage for ruining college life. Most students heading off to any university these days have their own laptop.

As a former Acadia employee of 27 years, I was in a position to watch some of the changes. Amateur plays and musicals went the way of the dodo when a full theatre studies program was introduced, but Roger Prentice's Easter plays continued to engage students outside of the drama program.

Students stopped playing cards in the SUB in the ‘80s, for what reasons I don't know. I do agree that the loosening of liquor laws changed student life on campus forever. Yes, there was booze as part of the student experience before, but because it was illegal it was covert and not as prevalent.

Each generation will create its own experience. I am impressed with the current students who solicit for charities in a way we never did. A women's centre was in its infancy in our time, and gay students were in the closet. The number of varsity sports has declined, but with that decline, there has been an increase in club sports.

So it all changes, except for the editor who will scold readers about student apathy each year.



Jane Palmer Cayford

Wolfville, N.S.