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Chances are, you're bored in lecture right now. Since we have your attention, check out our piece below on a bill in the Wisconsin state legislature right now that would make it harder for you to vote for your presidential candidate of choice come November.

Or don't. But at any rate, that's the kind of stuff Campus Progress likes to blog about and organize around - issues that affect you. The typical student. Maybe you're in a ton of debt, because the federal government cut Pell grants to finance this war. Maybe you fought in the war, and don't know how to deal with being back here at a place like UW, so removed from it all. Maybe you're following this presidential election, and you're upset with the media portrayal of it as a horserace with hardly any substantive debate. Or maybe you have a car here, and your gas prices are a daily reminder of a bigger price we're paying for the mistakes of the past 8 years.

Maybe your lights are on at your house right now, and you've been meaning to remember to turn them off, but just didn't get around to it this time. Maybe you're in a classroom right now where you're one of the only people of color, and it bothers you that it doesn't bother people. Maybe you're gay, and wondering when you'll get your shot at civil rights again, at a time when it isn't just politically convenient. Maybe you really care about something completely random nobody else cares about, and you just want someplace to talk about it.

And maybe, just maybe, you're just too upset over Brett Favre retiring to commit yourself emotionally to any other cause right now. But listen, friends: there is a world after Favre. And it's our world - the world of the future us college kids will inherit.

So next time you get bored in lecture, come back. Check out the Campus Progress blog. Come to our meetings every Tuesday at 6PM in Lakefront on Langdon (e-mail us before, so we know and can help you find us in there - campusprogress.uw@gmail.com). Take your education outside of the classroom you aren't even paying attention in right now, and discover the power of the people.

Because the real national security issue isn't terrorism.

It's apathy.

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