Alex Serrano

The Midcoast campus is not very well represented in the Beacon newspaper. As much as It would be easy to point fingers at the South Portland campus staff—who possibly harbor anti-Midcoast resentment—but alas, doing so would be akin to libel. The real culprit is that grotesque beast we all know and love. You guessed it: apathy.

Apathy has gripped the Midcoast campus. Too many students, on too many occasions, have proclaimed to me that they have no representation on the SMCC South Portland campus. Their Senate positions are relegated to a dinky Skyping laptop, and their propositions for funding are often turned down. This may be bias, but it is also an opposition to changing things themselves.

As a South Portland student, I want the Midcoast to step up and oppose the dominant narrative in which Midcoast students are lazy, uninvolved losers. This narrative insists that they hold neither the numbers nor the drive to support their own clubs—or even a page or two in the newspaper! Chuck Ott, faculty advisor for the Beacon, has been writing articles for the Midcoast section of the paper all year, the last of which being a paragraph or two describing a picture of Ron Cantor and administrators visiting. The Midcoast campus got the attention of the all-powerful Cantor and still we did not receive even a paragraph from them written. This, my friends, is despicable. We cannot blame Chuck for the dearth of Midcoast content. That blame, that responsibility, falls on you: the apathetic population of the Midcoast campus.

If you want more representation in the Beacon, write for it. If you want more representation in the Senate, repre-freaking-sent for gosh sakes! I, as managing editor, challenge you to shake the languid slug-monster from your little uncaring brain and work for the representation you deserve. Because at the end of the day, our time here is so, so short, and to waste any of that time would be a disgrace to yourselves as students and to the college as a whole. Go! Write!