By MARIA GUERRA
CONTRIBUTOR

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed the struggling presence of student life on campus. The “hustle and bustle” of San Jose City College dies down by about 3 p.m. The lack of a lively campus has created a shared sense of apathy in the student collective.

A solution would be to host more events that encourage students, correct? This can be done many ways: promoting movie nights, car shows, theater performances, etc. We could also expand to include the surrounding neighborhoods, which would give meaning to being a “community” college….dare I suggest that it might even create revenue from the local area to help ease our school budget plight?

More activities also would give students enthusiasm for academic endeavors, a good strategy that SJCC has failed to utilize. Additionally, it could generate funds for scholarships and helpful programs for students, thereby proving that the school’s main objective is to provide students with the resources to succeed.

Everyone on campus should consider it their duty to discover ways to improve this school. Some clubs on campus have been making an effort to improve this school—though they’ve been met with many obstacles.

Recently, the M.E.Ch.A. club managed to put on their car show to fundraise for scholarships. The process of organizing this event didn’t entail sign-painting, supply-hording or community promotion so much as it involved an immense amount of paper-shuffling and general, bureaucratic red tape. Ultimately, the event proved to be much smaller in size when compared to the paperwork process. An intense neglect from the higher-ups was incredibly insulting for the student event organizers.

Administration should ease the paperwork process and not scare away student activists with good intentions. We shouldn’t let technicalities rule the regulation of social events on this campus. Give us some encouragement, and reassurance that, as students, if we seek improvement we can readily work toward it with your help.