With student self-governance as the focal point of University life, one would be hard-pressed to find an institution with more dynamic, passionate and over-committed students. In addition to student self-governance stealing sleep from the lives of those who run StudCo, bike to Uganda, swim under torrents of homework and Dougie at their fraternity parties, the "student" aspect of self-governance also erases the importance of the greater University administration. We have so many Gmail-filtered activities that we must differentiate Activity A and Club Z by Canary Yellow versus Big Bird Yellow tags, yet where do emails about University-wide events go? The trash. Most recently, the response to information about University President Teresa A. Sullivan's inauguration demonstrates distinct apathy in an otherwise involved student body.
To learn more about the subject on which I rant, I tried to go back through my inbox to find President Sullivan's emails informing us of inauguration plans ... and could not. This demonstrates my point more than anything, however. I remember skimming those emails, seeing "Interfaith Vigil of Blessing" as the first activity and immediately sentencing them to Internet death: the permanent Trash folder. So long as @UVADeanGroves
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