Issue date: 4/3/08 Section: Opinions

Truman usually does a good job of encouraging input on campus-based issues, hosting poorly attended forums on curriculum and administrative posts and collecting surveys on the quality of food and the academic experience.

But these don't tend to be the kinds of issues that you'll give up Drinkin' With Lincoln for. Maybe knowing that you made a difference in the cereal selection in Ryle Hall doesn't mean as much as knowing you participated in a nationwide discussion of constitutional significance. Who knows?

After all the self-righteous condescension the college population earned for its mutiny against the Facebook news feed (Time magazine writer Tracy Schmidt sneeringly called it "Gen Y's first official revolution"), we're glad Truman students have chosen to voice their support for something as fundamental to Americans as equality - because that's what it all comes down to. Both advocates and opponents of race-based affirmative action just want everyone to get a piece of the pie. Historically, some of us haven't been offered any, and vehement disagreement just comes from how to get there now.

It's this commitment to fairness that likewise kept the Connerly's forum from getting out of hand last Thursday. We're glad your actions spoke as loud as your words.

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