No, apathy is not the problem!

In 2010, a student leader stood before his own institution and said: we are the problem. Paul Francis Lagarde's Washday piece, sharp, unsparing, and written from the inside, refused the easy comfort of blaming disengaged students and turned the mirror on the leaders doing the labeling. It is, sixteen years later, still one of the most honest things anyone in AdNU student politics has put to print about apathy.

ThePILLARS PublicationMay 23, 2026
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