By Marcellus Day, Stentorian Staff Writer
My favorite thing about NCSSM is our advocacy. We are megaphones for change and inspiration, on both a community and personal level. Despite this, very little is known about our own history when it comes to political advocacy, for both issues on and off campus. Many do not know about the amazing student advocacy that led to the creation of our Safe Officers or about our advocacy for pressing issues in the state of North Carolina. Why is that? Why is this history, as rich and diverse as it is, lost? The answer is multifaceted and complex, but there is one glaring issue: we, the students, fail to preserve our own history. This is due to several reasons: the workload of classes leaves very little time for both advocacy and preservation, and every year around half of our student body graduates and takes their history with them.
Regardless, for a variety of reasons, our student body has no established means of carrying political history and legacy. However, we have the power to change that. We have the power, as the student body, to maintain our own history so that it may be continued and inspire the Unicorns that come after us. The answer to our problem is storytelling. Seniors, tell the story of our political advocacy to our Juniors and work to pass on our political advocacy. Juniors, absorb our stories so that you may pass them on, take up passed-down advocacy, and work to do your own. Nobody is going to preserve our political history but us, so we must preserve it through storytelling.
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