By Joshua Prilliman, Guest Columnist
I spend a lot of my time as a Newman employee trying to better understand what makes our student body function. I will tell you that I have the best job in the world and no one will be able to tell me otherwise.
I remind myself daily that I only graduated a little over a decade ago, but it feels like a whole new world, and in some ways, it is very different. But in one large way, it remains the same. People all over wish for change and something new: changes in the economy, changes in politics, a new job… The list goes on forever. It is not any different here on campus because I hear it all the time from students and employees who are wishing for change or wishing for something new.
My struggle is with the word “wish” because wishing without purpose and action remains that, a wish. Some of the students who work with me consistently have heard me talking about wishing in one hand and pooping in the other to find out which one fills up faster, which some may say crosses a verbal line, but no one questions the meaning.
The reality of change comes down to the individual and what they are willing to do to create new spaces and new changes that will hopefully benefit most of the student body and the Newman community at large. I will never ask anyone to move mountains or cross oceans, but I will always encourage everyone to start the climb or at least dip their toes into the water because that is what it takes.
Nothing can change if there is no action taken toward making the change. Everything starts at some point with an individual, and if you are reading this, then maybe you are that individual. If there is something that you want to see happen on this campus, if there is some activity you want to experience in Wichita, take the small step to come see me, and I will help you start the process of making change.
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