Welcome to the third editorial.

Normally, a few words of disappointment toward the latest bureaucratic policy or paragraphs praising a Student Activities Board activity done well would fill these column inches, but today the abnormally opinionated editorial board had nothing new to say, praise or complain about.

The lack of editorial material is perplexing. Human nature alone lends itself toward disagreement and opinion. Could it be that Utopia has finally become a reality? Could it be that Plato’s Republic exists on the Saint Louis University campus, and we are all philosopher kings? It all seems a bit too real and way too unrealistic to be true.

Has SLU truly repaired all its flaws and become perfect? Has Residence Life succeeded in devising a housing plan that makes everyone, students and administrators, happy? Parking, tuition, academics and the achievement of the impossible certainly seems editorial worthy, yet that is not the content of this editorial.

Or perhaps is everyone still glowing contently from their summer tans, blissfully content to once again be on campus and out of their parent’s houses? Have we missed college life that much? Has the stress of looming tests and papers not yet tainted our cheery dispositions? If this is true, then editorials will be plentiful once again when tan lines begin to fade.

There is always the possibility that nothing worth analyzing and opinionizing about is happening at the moment. Thus leaving us nothing left to practice our refined complaining skills and sadly we’ve resorted to focusing our efforts on naked statues and double swiping meal cards. What’s next-a full page arguing for the removal of the tulips from the spring landscape design? Or a switch to ketchup bottles from the little packages currently provided to accompany a side of French fries?

Or the worst possible situation of all: We have stopped caring. Our general apathy has surpassed poor attendance at University functions and landed in our acceptance of the unacceptable. Do we now tolerate overflowing parking lots and classrooms as nothing more than typical SLU? Are the sarcastic words, “Welcome to SLU” or “What else would you expect” far to frequent on our lips? Have we brought in the white flag onto the constant battlefield to improve all aspects of our university?

The University News encourages the student body, faculty, staff and administrators to care and to speak out if necessary. It is time to ask ourselves if we are satisfied with the current state of all our past concerns and to explore new areas of discontent. But for the time being, The University News apologizes for our lack of editorial material; the campus is experiencing apathetic difficulties.